Apartment Therapy's annual Small, Cool Home Contest is underway! Have you been following it? If not, you should be! Most entrants include a picture or two of their kitchen, so it's a great chance to see how real people design and outfit their tiny kitchens. Ideas galore!
TOP ROW
1 Geoff's Southern Exposure Studio
2 Kate's Versatile Space
3 William's Created Illusion
4 Tanaporn's Sunny Studio
5 Diana's Exposed Brick Bonus
MIDDLE ROW
6 Nick's First Apartment
7 Jennifer's Gathering Place
8 Rebecca's Sunny Small Space
9 Meredith's Colorful Work in Progress
10 Annette's Compact and Comforting Home
BOTTOM ROW
11 Kyla's Keeping Things Simple
12 Jennifer's Eclectic Diary
13 Susanne's Little Bit Old Fashioned
14 Derona's Character Filled Flat
15 Michelle's Rabbit Hole
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Where are they all storing their small appliances?! Less a few, I see no toasters, mixers, blenders, etc. That's my biggest small-kitchen struggle!
PAINOH83, I've come to the conclusion that a toaster oven and a food processor are the only small appliances that I really need (that's right, no microwave!). Once you get used to it, all the other stuff seems superfluous.
Perhaps they keep the small appliances in the fridge or stove. In some of the kitchens the stove and fridges seem massive - perhaps bigger than they need to be considering it is such a small space.
But then thats just my opinion and I'm looking at it from the lens of a different country.