Changes as I age

Since I've been living on my own, I've never had a nice kitchen until now. Since getting the nice kitchen, I find that I'm spending a few hours in it every day, either cleaning or making stuff for me or W or the dogs. Now I'm wondering: Am I spending more time in there because it's nice and open, or was it because I was starting to spend more time in the kitchen that we got a nice and open one. The result is still the same though: I am turning into a person my youthful self would've scoffed at.