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Posts tagged “small kitchen”

What's the Hardest Part of Cooking In a Small Kitchen?

We like to focus on the positive, here at The Kitchn, and we feel that there are a lot of good things about small spaces and small kitchens. Personally, I love small kitchens because I like having man...

Classic Kitchen: Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House

It is always interesting to peek into kitchens designed in an older generation. But this kitchen designed by Frank Lloyd-Wright for his Pope-Leighey House doesn't strike us as vintage or retro, aside ...

Kitchen Spotlight: Sudie's Pocket-Sized Renovation

Do you have a tiny kitchen? Do you despair of ever making it work for you? Well, let's take a look at a really tiny kitchen that got a major facelift. We love how Sudie took her existing kitchen &mdas...

Kitchen Spotlight: Teeny IKEA Kitchen

Did you know that we've just launched our fifth Small Cool contest? We're looking for the smallest, coolest, homes we can find. This is an inspiring contest, and we love the chance to peek into people...

Kitchen Tour: Virginia and Mateo's Just-in-Time-for-Baby Brooklyn Renovation

See Gallery of Virginia and Mateo's Kitchen Virginia and Mateo aren't the first homeowners to use a baby on the way as an enforced window of time for finishing a kitchen renovation. Sara Kate did it ...

Look! Susy's Perfectly Organized Kitchen

We are so blown away by the kitchen storage in this house tour just posted at Apartment Therapy. It's a compact studio galley, with some great ideas for real-life kitchen organization, and just to put...

Five Small Kitchens from This Old House

This Old House is not usually the first resource we turn to for small-space tips and ideas. We usually associate it with big rambling houses and expensive renovations. But this may be a mistake; many ...

Good Question: Best Appliances for Small Kitchens?

When you live with a small kitchen, how do you prioritize appliances, gadgets, and tools? That's part of Shayna's question below. Can you give her some advice? My name is Shayna. I live in an attic ...

Good Question: Best Hot Plate for Tiny Kitchen?

Here's great challenge question from reader Jen. She writes: I recently moved to San Francisco, where I am renting a painfully cheap apartment. (I won't discuss exactly how much it is, but let's jus...

Kitchen Spotlight: Keith and Brent's Vintage Makeover

We love seeing kitchen before-and-afters! It takes hard work, energy, and thoughtfulness to renovate a kitchen - especially a small one, where the locations of each appliance and object have to be car...

Kitchen Spotlight: Chez Colette & Pierre
Paris, France

Colette and Pierre live on the top two floors of a centuries-old building in Saint Germain where Colette has lived for more than 50 years. She put a glass roof on a former terrace to create a comforta...

Kitchen Spotlight: Kyle's Colorful Boston Perch

When Kyle realized that she wasn't getting enough light in her Jamaica Plain apartment office, she did a very sensible thingl. She moved her office into the light-flooded pantry. Why not work in close...

Kitchen Tour: Eric Gower's Breakaway Kitchen with Annex

When I asked Eric Gower how often he cooks in his kitchen his answer was "Three times a day! At least!" Eric also teaches cooking, works as a private chef, is the author of two beautiful and innovat...

Kitchen Spotlight: The Janssens' Incredibly Tiny RV Kitchen

Now here's some summer vacation inspiration! Sara, Matt and 3-year-old Bella were recently featured on AT:San Francisco. They live in perhaps the ultimate small space: a vegetable-oil-powered RV. They...

Kitchen Spotlight: Small Cool 2008 WINNER

Small Cool 2008 came to a smashing end last night at Room & Board in Chicago. And - the winner is... a 460 square-foot studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with an amazing little loft and smart use of...

Kitchen Spotlight: Small Cool 2008 Second Place Winner

The Small Cool 2008 contest wrapped up last night - the judges have spoken and the winners were announced. Our second-place winner was from Los Angeles......

Kitchen Spotlight: Small Cool 2008 Third Place Winner

The Small Cool 2008 contest wrapped up last night at a big party in Chicago's Room & Board flagship store, and the winners were announced in this morning's AT email. We're revealing them slowly th...

Kitchen Spotlight: Slide-Out Worktops in a Tiny Galley

We were really interested in this kitchen, part of a recent house tour at AT:Chicago. This kitchen is tiny, and the owners could have simply been dismayed by the closed-in shoebox and ordered takeout ...

Kitchen Spotlight: Holly and Sean's Hot Pink

It's the first day of May and the sun is shining! We're ready to throw open the windows and bring color into the kitchen. For inspiration we turned to a favorite house tour from San Francisco, a tour ...

Vote Your Favorite Small Cool Kitchen: Week 4 Edition

Wow! Over 150 entries have now been posted in this year's Smallest Coolest Apartment (and home) Contest. We've been keeping an eye on the kitchens that we see in the entries and taking informal polls ...

Vote Your Favorite Small Cool Kitchen: Week 3 Edition

Yowzers! The Small Cool home entries flooded in after the deadline last week and we have been busy sorting through them all for the very best kitchens. It was hard to narrow it down to four this week ...

Kitchen Spotlight: The Beauty of Built-In Cabinets

As we work our way into the first-ever 8 Step Kitchen Cure, the first thing to confront us is the sheer amount of bags, packages, jars, shakers, boxes, and packets stuffed into the cupboards. As we po...

London Kitchen Spotlight: Tim Sloan's Box of Tricks

Recently at Apartment Therapy, we visited Mike & Bea's Raised Kitchen, built by Tim Sloan of Levitate Architects (who brought us The Amazing Staircase). The above photo is what this kitchen looked lik...

Kitchen Spotlight: The Un-Kitchen in London

London-based South African architect Jennifer Beningfield was asked to redesign a kitchen to integrate seamlessly into a room that also included the dining and living spaces in a North London flat. "T...

Tiniest Kitchen Ever? Jack's Micro Home

We are always interested in seeing how city-dwellers work with tiny kitchen spaces. Perhaps the reigning champion of tiny kitchen spaces belongs to Jack, an artist and musician who lives in a 10x16 Ma...