Cute Kitchen: 5 Design Tips for Tiny Kitchens

Small kitchens can be a passionate cook’s worst nightmare. You want to prepare exciting and adventurous meals for your loved ones, but the cramped design and lack of storage make it next to impossible. 

Thankfully, a small kitchen doesn’t have to put an end to your culinary ambitions. Make some of the following changes, and you might be surprised by how much space you can reclaim. 

Have a Kitchen Clearout

Clearing out clutter is the first step toward making your small kitchen more functional. Sell or donate cookware and kitchen accessories you don’t use, and buy cookware online with nesting and streamlined designs to take up less space. 

Giving away or selling your possessions can be challenging, but if you can’t remember the last time you used your bulky bread maker or sizeable stock pot, now might be the right time to part with it. Doing so will instantly make your kitchen appear larger and free up funds for other purchases. 

Make Use of Wasted Space

Kitchen counters tend to be ground zero for all our clutter and kitchen essentials, but they don’t have to be. Make meal preparation in a cramped space less frustrating by using wasted space for storage solutions. 

Install shelving on free walls for cups, plates, bowls, and your favourite kitchen trinkets. Consider hanging pot racks to free up valuable cabinet space. Many people also see the value in meal preparation trolleys and vertical storage trolleys on caster wheels to tuck neatly between appliances. When your kitchen has a smaller-than-average size or unique layout, a combination of these storage ideas can help you maximise what space you have.

Purchase Cabinet Organisers

Even if you have cabinetry of generous proportions, it’s not always easy to make everything fit. You might even struggle to access appliances and cookware you use every day. To address this issue, invest in cabinet organisers to keep your storage systems clutter-free. 

Multi-tier cabinet inserts utilise all available space and provide easy access. Meanwhile, swivelling organisers allow you to reach items at the very back of your cabinets. You can even purchase over-the-door organisers that allow you to store essentials on the insides of cupboard doors for convenience. 

Invest In Multi-Functional Furniture

The tiny home market is growing exponentially, which is good news for people looking for space-saving solutions in small homes. It is now much easier than ever to find furniture that can serve more than one purpose. 

Consider dining tables that can function as both meal preparation tables and study desks and countertops that can transform into breakfast bars with tuck-away stools. By giving each kitchen feature more than one purpose, you don’t have to clutter your kitchen with furniture.

Install Smaller Appliances

Having a small kitchen sometimes means you have to make sacrifices beyond ensuring you don’t accumulate too much clutter or kitchen equipment. You might also need to purchase smaller appliances. 

Explore your options around dishwashers, ovens, and microwaves of conservative dimensions to give you as much free space as possible. These options are more prevalent due to the tiny home phenomenon and often have the same convenient features as their larger counterparts. Best of all, they’re often far more affordable

A tiny kitchen can be frustrating and challenging to work with, but it doesn’t have to limit your culinary potential. Make some of the changes listed above, and there’s no reason your kitchen can’t be as functional and comfortable as one of average size. 

Katherine L. Branton

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