Take a look at this galley kitchen. Looks pretty ordinary, right? It has nice light, and a bold wash of color... and then, turn your head. That's an enormous, gilt-framed painting on the wall, smack dab in the middle of this otherwise modest kitchen. Wow! What a statement! What do you think of this? More

I'm probably going to get into trouble here, but I have to say it: I hate granite countertops. I just don't care for how they look or feel and if I owned my own kitchen, I would never install them. But I don't own my kitchen. I'm a renter in the early stages of browsing Craigslist, looking for a new apartment. And I'm here to tell you: Granite countertops are taking over! More

Kristin Appenbrink is one of those funny, welcoming friends with an enviably big kitchen and impressive homemade ice cream skills. She recently threw a little party for the ladies of Pantry Confidential (a great new site we'll explain below), and while we're happy to get a sneak peek at her space, we're a little jealous we didn't get to go. More

When you're renting and you want to jazz up your kitchen, the options are often pretty limited. No paint, no appliance switcheroo, no new materials like tile, countertops, flooring. That's why we jumped at this nifty temporary backsplash idea: More

Ariana is a long-time Kitchn reader who shared her sweet Portland kitchen with us in last year's Small Cool Kitchens contest. Since then, however, she has moved with her husband and daughter to a 300-year-old rental home in Bavaria, Germany. Here's a peek into her charming German kitchen! More

Jackie knows that in order to thrive and get the creative juices flowing, her immediate physical environment must be pleasing to the eye and the soul. So she took on the challenge of personalizing a typical rental kitchen in New York City with gusto.

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Sveta believes in colorful food that comes from as close to its original source as possible, and that makes her, her husband Joe and their six year old child feel better and not worse after eating it.

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Rental kitchens can be a tough room to deal with: major kitchen changes are expensive and you can't take them with you when you move. Storage is one particular issue we often see folks dealing with creatively in rental kitchens. Here are a few storage solutions for renters pulled from Small Cool Kitchen entries. More

Q: The Small Cool Kitchens Contest got me thinking: do you have any design tips for those of us that rent in places you can't paint, change hardware, change light fixtures, or change anything really?

Living in Northern Virginia, all the rental apartments around here have the same beige walls, beige carpets, white tile, birch colored cabinets (which aren't all that terrible). I find it hard to get a unique look.

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When Grace, Brian, and their young daughter moved out of the city and into their own condo, they traded in interesting architectural details for more space. Their kitchen was a simple white box — very similar to most rental kitchens. They have added just a few details to their little kitchen that made it really pop in this photo. More