Visually Appealing IKEA Kitchen Is Odd

I was taking a look at the cover of the IKEA catalog that arrived recently and I noticed that the kitchen on the cover seemed a bit odd. I know they were going for a visually appealing kitchen as opposed to a functional one, but it still seems odd to me. Take a look:

You might not notice anything at first, but just take a look at those jars. Who the heck needs six large jars of lemons in the kitchen? I don’t know about you, but I only keep stuff out in the kitchen that I need frequently. Those jars go well color and repetition-wise, but that’d be an odd thing to have within easy reach in your kitchen. Certainly that many.

Look at all those apples, and whatever the heck is to the right of the apples. Those are fresh. How many people live there that they need that many fresh apples? Those will surely go bad. This is even without getting to the carrots, which the ten pounds or so to the left of the jars seem especially redundant in light of the seven or so jars of them up at the top right.

Approximately 30 bottles of what appears to be vinegar?

Now, maybe the owner of the kitchen is a canning fiend and just has nowhere else to keep all this stuff, but it just seems to take up an awful lot of prominent kitchen room. Surely there has to be a better storage space somewhere.

Thus, visually appealing but not particularly functional. It’s not something I should be concerned about in any way, but it’s hard not to think about when they just send these catalogs to my house. I blame my wife for that.