For small kitchen owners looking for a little more storage space, consider the backsplash shelf! These floating shelves hang right on the backsplash between the countertop and the overhead cabinets, and provide a small landing strip of horizontal space. Here are a few examples of the look: what do you think? More

I absolutely love the look of this bookshelf. Don't you? A one-stop-shop bookshelf like this is helpful for a number of reasons: the top half is great for storing cookbooks, dishes, and serving ware, while the small cubby drawers on the bottom are perfect for flatware, utensils, linens, and other kitchen miscellanea. More

What makes a $2,000 kitchen renovation different from a $62,000 renovation? That may sound like a ridiculous question, but the premise is intriguing: take a tiny rental kitchen in Brooklyn, bring in a few expert opinions, and get three different renovation proposals that run the gamut on price. That's what one NYT writer did, and it's such an interesting look at the why and how of small kitchen renovations. More

Small kitchen cooks unite! We know that many of you have small kitchens (many of the Kitchn writers and editors do, too!), so we often write about small kitchen concerns. There's a lot of helpful information already in our archives, so I thought it was high time to round up 15 of our best posts on the subject, from the #1 multi-tasking tool you should have in your small kitchen to great ideas gleaned from the annual Small, Cool Kitchens Contest. Read on for tips, solutions, advice, and the best products for small kitchens: More

There were so many points of interest in this compact cottage-style kitchen: the lattice wallpaper, the vintage kitchen scales, the butcher block island installed on an industrial trolley, the light fixture. What a sweet kitchen! More

I never realized how much I relied on my freezer until I lost it. When I moved to Germany a couple months ago, I was prepared for life with a small, European-style refrigerator. Visions of farmers' markets and straw baskets and homemade ice cream danced through my jet-lag-addled brain, and I was convinced I could cook just like Julia Child. But then I saw the freezer. Somehow I had not made the connection that a miniature refrigerator would of course have only a tiny, baby-sized, vestigial freezer. My ice cream dreams melted. More

The freezer might be my best friend in the kitchen. I freeze beans, brown rice and cooked leafy greens for quick, healthy meals. I freeze bananas. I freeze calzones. I even freeze whole unbaked pies. All this freezing saves a lot of time and money, but my poor freezer is stuffed — and there's still more I want to freeze! That's why, even though I live in an apartment, I'm seriously considering buying a chest freezer. More

If you have empty space above your kitchen cabinets, and your kitchen is small, then here's a storage idea for you. Last Fall I had an epiphany and bought three 12"-by-10" storage baskets to serve as extra storage above my kitchen cabinets. They serve two purposes: More

Most cooks appreciate every scrap of storage space allotted to their kitchen, big or small, urban or suburban. Some of us let the kitchen spill out into other spaces in the home (remember how David Lebovitz keeps his ice cream maker under the bed?). I recaptured an inefficient coat closet and turned it into a cheery little pantry — one of my all-time most useful kitchen projects! Packing all your kitchen goods together in a pantry like this can really streamline your organizing and post-grocery shopping routine. Here are ten more inspiring examples of pantries, each with a takeaway for small spaces. More

I have become intimately acquainted with the walls of my new house as over the last several weeks my husband and I and a pack of friends have stripped most of the rooms of wall coverings, plaster, and lathe, exposing the true bones and studs. One side effect of this (besides sore shoulders and scraped hands!) is that the naked structure of my house has given me a whole new perspective on storage. There's so much room in there, between the studs! Here are some inspiring photos showing how you can use all that negative space inside your walls for positive storage solutions. More