30 Small Cool Kitchens from Real Homes

Faith Durand
Faith DurandSenior Vice President of Content at AT Media
Faith is the SVP of Content at Apartment Therapy Media and former Editor-in-Chief of The Kitchn. She is the author of three cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning, The Kitchn Cookbook. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and two daughters.
updated Feb 21, 2020
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Apartment Therapy’s biggest event of the year, Small Cool 2011 just wrapped, and the winners were announced. It was a complete festival of inspiring compact homes this year — nearly 200 entries from teeny-tiny to small. We took this as an opportunity to dig through this year’s entries and pull out the most inspiring small kitchens. From sleek, all-white modern kitchens to simple and homey spaces, here are 30 small kitchens to inspire.

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Lasse in Denmark (Image credit: Apartment Therapy)

FROM THE FINALISTS & WINNERS
• Lasse in Denmark
• Julia in New Hampshire
• Nicole in Brooklyn
• Jordan in Brooklyn

TEENY-TINY
from homes under 400 square feet

• Stellah in Brooklyn
• Cammie in Boston
• Arden in New York
• Paul in New York
• Sandy in Brooklyn

TINY
from homes under 600 square feet

• Eduardo in New York
• Abbie in Norwalk
• Maya in New York
• Christine in Sausalito
• Danielle in Los Angeles

LITTLE
from homes under 800 square feet

• Susan in Amherst
• Joey & Kati in Chestnut Hill
• Sammi & Dave in Oakland
• Maureen in Denver
• Dan in Cambridge

SMALL
from homes under 1000 square feet

INTERNATIONAL
from homes under 1000 square feet

SEE ALL THE SMALL COOL 2011 ENTRIES: Small Cool 2011 at Apartment Therapy

(Images: All images provided by owners/inhabitants of featured homes.)