Hi Raji, If it helps: I also had the same mentality of not liking to keep god in the kitchen. Recently due to my job, we moved the city from a smaller town and the apartment is small. So my kitchen is everything now. It is completely furnished and sophisticated and all. However I have kept swami in a height above the platform . I literally do not have space to put kolam in front of the god, so I am planning to put it in a small new plate and keep it in front of the god every day.
Hey ptamil 2007 (name not known), I have started doing it from Friday. I am putting it in a small wood plate and keeping it in the swami shelf.
Thats good Raji. I too started on Friday and said the two lines of shloka. I kept rice on the kolam - on each of the numbers -Pavithra