Innovative Kitchen Designs For Small Spaces

Who doesn’t imagine beautiful, big, full of free space kitchen in which you can prepare your meals, eat with your family, entertain guests and feel like a worldwide known chef having his/her own TV show? But, for most people that is just a dream. Most of us have small, rarely functional, often crowded kitchens. We choose between function and free space, often forced to give up on some kitchen appliance we want but don’t have space to put it in. Here are some ideas that can help you have both.

Maximize storage

Having a small kitchen means you have a very small storage space. You have to storage dishes, pots, canned food, fresh food, spices, kitchen appliances, cleaning products, etc. Using cupboards can be quite limiting. Although they look spacious, they actually have a small storage space compared to the space they use in the kitchen.

They are very useful for things you want to hide from the public, but not for everything. You can put one or two cupboards next to the kitchen sink or a cooker, and put open shelves on the walls which can host most of your stuff.

Find decorative containers and mark them with stickers and you can keep almost everything in them – flour, sugar, spices, pasta, beans… You can also display your china on the shelves and have them within reach when you need them.

Maximize efficiency

When we are preparing our meals there is nothing more frustrating than having to run around trying to find space to put stuff down or trying to find something we need. That is why working space is very important. It is ideal to put a counter in your kitchen.

You don’t have to have a spacious kitchen for that. Even the small kitchen can have a nice and useful counter. It would be ideal if you have space to make island counter in the middle of your kitchen, but when that isn’t possible, counter that leans against the wall can be very handy. Kitchen counters are not only a great help in preparing food they are also space for your kitchen appliances that you use every day.

You can choose a few appliances that you use the most often and put them on your counter, like the coffee machine you use every morning. You can look at Lavazza Australia and find just the perfect coffee machine that will be both useful and decorative and at the reach of your hand.

Kitchen furniture

There are few things you will need to make your kitchen a space that is everyone’s favourite place, place for family breakfast, place to make a tasty sandwich for lunch, preparing dinner during cosy conversation with a family member, loud dinner full of laughter, or just a place where you can have a quiet moment for yourself with a cup of fresh coffee and a cookie. Putting a table and the chairs may not be so easy in a small kitchen.

You can use a part of your counter as a table, especially if you put your encounter narrow side against the wall and make a small island in your kitchen. That way you can use it to prepare food and later use it as a table. A table can be put in the middle of the kitchen and you can use it as your workspace as well.

Folding tables are very handy. When you finish using it, just fold it down to the wall it is attached to and you gained yourself some kitchen space. As for chairs, if your kitchen is really small, go for chairs that can fold and be easily stored somewhere else while not in use.

Colours and illumination

When you have some small space than there is a lot you can do with colour and light. Small spaces often need bright, light colours to make them visually bigger. But even small stress of a bold, bright, high colour in a unicolour kitchen will make wonders. If you have a kitchen window that lets a lot of sunshine in your kitchen than you can be bold with colours. You can use some darker colour for the walls, a lighter shade of the same colour for kitchen furniture and cupboards and few details in some complementary bright colour.

If your kitchen is illuminated with artificial light than it is best that you choose some light, bright colour for walls that will make your kitchen look more spacious under artificial light. Light is very important for your kitchen as well.

Even if you have a big window that lets in lots of light, it doesn’t help much at the night. Lights in your kitchen should be put in such a manner that they light your working area the best and one or two lights that illuminate your eating space.

A small kitchen doesn’t have to be a disadvantage. If you learn how to use your small space and make it as functional as possible but also a beautiful space where everyone feels great, then your small kitchen can be a place you will have fun to spend time at.

Author
Chloe Smith is a cycling enthusiast and a part-time writer always willing to share tidbits of advice. She believes that passion, courage and, above all, knowledge breed success. When she’s not working, she’s probably somewhere cuddled up with a good book, and a cup of lemongrass tea (or more honestly binge-watching the newest Netflix hit show).

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