"Limitation provides a great opportunity for innovative solutions." So says Beth about her teeny-tiny 5'x7' kitchen. Here are a few tips for making a little kitchen work:
As Beth said about her kitchen in this Apartment Therapy House Tour:
I love to entertain and have even had parties for as many as thirty people in the cottage. I grew up in a big family, so having folks over and kids around is natural. I love to cook and bake, but painstaking planning is required when I get serious in the kitchen. There's no room for clutter or teetering piles of dirty dishes; my counters are reserved exclusively for food prep. I have my mother to thank for that. She always told us to "clean as you go." Thanks Mom!
Other details to note: With the help of the Elfa storage system from The Container Store and Kiri wood boxes from Roost Company, Beth uses her wall as the primary storage area for her cookbooks, dishes, and pots and pans. Hanging utensils and cooking tools (which look like they adhere pretty closely to our basics list) provide easy access and further free up precious cabinet and drawer space. The yellow enamel cookware is made by Dansk, Le Creuset and Copco.
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(Images: Jess Watson)
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I love to see how others have worked with smaller kitchens. My house was built in the 1940s and my current kitchen is smaller than the one I had in my last apartment! Thanks for sharing your use of space - can't wait to use some of the ideas myself.
I've got a kitchenette - we shop little and often, and try to wash and dry dishes quickly instead of leaving them on the countertop or kitchen table where they take up precious space. For cupboard space, I bought these great shelf dividers from IKEA that allow you to break a tall shelf space in half. I can't find remember what they're called though!
Any idea where I can find wood boxes like that? Doesn't look like I just order a couple up from the Roost website.
This was one of my all time favorite house tours (if not my favorite) on AT. I love this update of the kitchen!
Great little kitchen, really nicely organized! In fact, the whole cottage is great--I live in a big SF flat and I actually daydream about living in a smaller space.
I am not quite convinced that really is a 5 x 7 kitchen. A counter is at least two foot deep, so in this case, the two counters would total four foot. That would leave one foot of floor space between the two, which we all most likely agree isn't wide enough for most people to even enter the kitchen, let alone use it. This looks more like a 7 x 7 kitchen...
@ Viktoria --
If you look at the house tour, the first image is a floorplan showing that 7' is the width of the kitchen (from wall to wall). 5' looks to be the length of the counters.