Kitchen Cabinetry for Tight Spaces

Saturday, August 29, 2015

The first cabinet to look for, the one you can't do without, is the sink base. You should look for the deepest, largest sink base that can fit into a 24"-27" cabinet, preferably with a high gooseneck faucet (to better utilize the vertical space) and enough space for a fairly large pot. Next we have to find a hood to move the cooking fumes out of the kitchen that, ideally, measures no wider than the 24" allocated to the oven beneath it. LG makes a remarkable appliance for small kitchen spaces: an over-the-range microwave that functions both as a microwave and an exhaust hood.

Kitchen Cabinetry for Tight Spaces

Have you been keeping track of the number of inches we've freed in your small kitchen so far? We've saved, by just using smaller appliances, 18"-24". Now that we've saved those inches, we can spend them! Have you always wanted a pantry cabinet in your small kitchen? How's a 9"x96" pantry pull-out sound? It can hold plenty of dry goods and it lets you pull out its entire contents for viewing at any time. You can even get an in-cabinet trashcan fitted into a 15"-wide base. These thin, specific-use cabinets lend both style and function to small kitchens. There are plenty of small kitchen design solutions out there that put your space to full use. For example, a blind corner base pull-out will hold almost twice as many things as a similarly-sized Lazy Susan. On the other hand, a Lazy Susan corner wall cabinet will allow you to reach those items that might otherwise be lost forever on the top shelves.

These are only some ideas for making better use of space in your small kitchen. Kitchen designers can come up with solutions to all the small kitchen design problems you can think of, so don't worry that your small kitchen is hopeless!