- Name:
- Tracy
- Location:
- Seattle , WA
- Square Feet:
- 39
- Division:
- Rent
- What makes your small kitchen so cool?
- This super small, super sweet kitchen is sustainable! The open-room design (there is no barrier between the kitchen and living space) and the custom-made, 1950s original oak cabinets complete with a pull out area for a cutting board make this kitchen a keeper! Small changes (IKEA stick-up mirror backsplash & switching out the light switch plate) make my rental kitchen my home.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.
- With only one 6-inch drawer where does one put all of the stuff you would normally store away? My solution? Hooks! Oven mitts, potholders, and a trivet hang from the side of the stove on magnets. Dishtowels and cloth napkins are rolled up and placed in a metal three-tier basket. Stainless steel pans hang on the wall next to the stove from adhesive heavy-duty metal hooks.
- What's your favorite meal to cook here?
- I love to entertain. My favorite meal to cook in my kitchen is dinner for 6 including lasanga, home-made baked bread, spinach salad, and fresh rhubarb pie!
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So tiny and so cute! I love the red theme!
Wow! All that in less than 40 square feet! Amazing!
Way cute, such an organized, artful space!
Love the old rotary phone on the left!
How do you deal with all the steam and heat coming from your pots right below your cabinet?
I also have a stove without a cover/fan and I can't stand it, but I definitely wouldn't have anything above it.
Cute and Compact.
I'm normally not a member of the germ brigade, but that frying pan looks like it's almost touching the garbage can. Eesh.
I do like the red and white, but it seems like there are a lot of patterns and other things going on, too. I'm not sure it all works for me, but it's awesome that you get cooking done in that limited space!
Thank you for your comments....
As for the stove placement, believe it or not these cabinets are original from the 1950s and they are in perfect condition... The stove has always been placed under them.... With regards to the red bin, here in Seattle very little goes in the trash. The red bin is for clean recycleables.... Glass, paper, etc.... Compost (i.e food waste) is kept under the sink with an itsy-bitsy can for trash.
One more thing with regards to the steam and heat, I have a working 1950s exhaust fan that sucks everything out away from the stove... In the 10 years I ve been here I've never had a problem with peeling paint or mildew.