If you love to Cook, but am afraid to buy or rent a place with a kitchen the size of a phone booth, fear not. Small kitchen doesn't have to be a big disadvantage, if you use your space creatively. How to design and equip a cramped or narrow kitchen is a common quandary for urban residents. You can use small appliances, cabinets, which are distributed on the ceiling, multifunctional furniture and simple additions like the Wall shelves for use of limited space. In fact, as a small can actually be an advantage as it scares away the excess.
"Too often the kitchen just become bloated," said David Eisen, a principal with Abacus architects + planners in Boston. The Small kitchen is not necessarily a bad thing. " Whether you do a full kitchen remodeling project or just trying to make the best use of the space you have, experts say you need to get creative. Use the drop leaf table, if you don't have a lot of places to eat. At the lower end of the target sells for $ 240 drop leaf table and two mission style chairs.
Or, you could be more detailed. One of the leading Manhattan kitchen, Eisen has developed the island with folding seats as an old-fashioned taxi that were on order for a steel fabricator for approximately $ 500. The kitchen is often the most important part is the refrigerator. Units sold in the United States, which range in price from $ 350 to more than $ 3,000, typically between 30 and 48 inches wide, are between 24 and 33 inches deep and 60 up to 84 inches tall. A Refrigerator works for you depends on the size of your space and how it is aligned.
One good option for narrow kitchens, TV is "counter-depth, which extends only about 24 inches, creating a built-in look. As KitchenAid, Ge, Whirlpool and LG sell them for about $ 2,000. "Once you figure out where you put the Fridge, then remainder in place pretty easily," said Byron buck, owner of national capital kitchens in Washington who specializes in kitchen design for narrow row houses and small apartments.
One particularly tiny kitchen in Capitol Hill tank removed the wall between the kitchen and living room, replace those 36 and 42 inches in height and has created more space with countertop in the living-room peninsula, 30-inch cabinets. Another option is a space-saving microwave drawer, Sharp introduced this year. It sells for about $ 700 and under counter MICROWAVE, saving precious space.
When putting together your kitchen, be sure to save as much as you can off the counter, because the counter space is at a premium in a small space, advises Susan Serra, who runs her own business design kitchen on Long Island, New York. How often do you really need a rice cooker or bread maker? You can put them away somewhere else? In addition to take stock of how many things you really need.
"Be tough on yourself. Get rid of what you can get rid of, "she said. A good strategy is to put items that you don't use a lot, such as your holiday meals--high up on shelves or built-in modules, so they don't get in the way. Cabinets that go up to the ceiling can be a good option. "You need to really look at the height of the room, and the width and length," says Ralph Cunningham, Washington architect who designs kitchens in areas with particularly narrow houses, such as Georgetown. "There is usually a space can be found up in the air."