"Rhoda's" ugly kitchen renovation

[OOliver]

On the very last episode of "Rhoda" (Season 5, ep 13: "Brenda Runs Away") which CBS never aired (but TVLand and now ALN have aired), one of the sub-stories is that Rhoda wants her tiny little kitchen area "enclosed" with French shutters and a Double-dutch door. Instead of hiring a carpenter, she hires her boss Jack - who does it for free in six hours on one Sunday afternoon. (By the end of the ep, the whole thing collapses since he didn't build it correctly).

When Brenda, Benny and Ida visit Rhoda after the 'renovation' they all say how beautiful it looks. I think it looks hideous!

I know in the late 70s it was 'fashionable' to do this to the kitchen areas in many homes - enclosing them with shutters and doors (I think this was the set-up in the show "One Day At a Time" as well - though the shutters and door was never used that much).

Yet Rhoda's apartment is too small, and the area she did was way too small. It looked like a closet in the middle of her apartment.

Did anyone here like it?

I wonder if the show continued, would the enclosed kitchen stay - or would this be just a one-shot story line? It's never made clear which way they were going. (It was customary in the 70s to 'remodel' a long-standing set. "Bewitched" did it back in the early 70s).