Don't ever underestimate how small an apartment can be in Paris. This city is full of tiny homes with even tinier kitchens. So by comparison, Stephan with his 240 square feet is doing quite well for himself.
The apartment building, replete with a low ceilinged, winding wooden staircase, hails from the mid 19th century and is located in Montmartre, just below the Sacre Cour. A year ago, when he bought it, the apartment was in such bad shape that he wouldn't invite anyone over. After a very efficient and low budget renovation — with a fine eye and a lot of help from Ikea — it's a minimalist's paradise.
It has all the appliances, counter space, and potential for great meals as that of a larger kitchen — achieving these universal kitchen goals with less.
A lesson to all. Small is no excuse for eating out or not cooking. Last week, in this two-burner convection stove top, toaster oven laden kitchen, I prepared three whole poached trout, sauteed white asparagus and a large green salad for four without even a murmur of inconvenience!
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I am dying to see the rest of this apartment. It seems like a dream!
I agree--a full house tour, please!
This might just be the midWesterner in me, but where's the pantry? I understand fridges are tiny in Europe, but where are the canned tomatoes, grains, beans, and spices?
The pantry is above the fridge. The closet to the right above the sink.
I cannot wait to see the rest of this place!
please please please show us the rest of the apt. I also leave in paris and I have a kitchen of exactly the same size, i have a feeling that this appartment is packed with with clever and stylish ideas for small spaces. cashba usually people in paris stock their cans in one of their two kitchen cupboards. apts in paris are so small it is not even funny. some have their WC on the landing so a full size pantry is the least of our problems. and again please please please more pics!!!!!
I stayed in a 120 meter studio in Paris in 2005 with my husband. Very compact kitchen, but with open air markets so close by and Monoprix two blocks away, stocking the kitchen was not really necessary. I enjoyed making some good meals for us in a tiny kitchen much like this. It was stocked with a number of the essential pots, pans and utensils so I was able to indulge in my love of cooking. You get pretty creative in a small space!
Thorndale, with only two burners, an electric kettle allows you to heat three things at once.
As to the pantry question, we live in a 322 m2 apartment here in Paris and I store small quantities (maybe 2-6 servings) of pastas, rices (5-10 kg bags of this as my husband is Japanese & Iranian so rice is a staple), dried beans, canned goods, etc. in either one of the two cabinets below or the one above the cooking area. Because we're in Paris, there are stores & markets literally steps from my apartment door so getting groceries isn't the production that it was when I was growing up on a farm in Washington State.
The only thing I really miss here is having an American sized freezer - the little box above the fridge part of my undercounter fridge is barely big enough for ice cream, so I have to use up stocks quickly that I'd normally freeze
Nice, but either paint the wooden post or not.