Small Kitchen Design Ideas | Practical Tips To Maximise A Small Kitchen

My idea is to have a 2 ring induction hob instead of a four ring to free up more premium worktop space, especially if you have a steamer as you can steam all your veggies in on pot and cook meat or fish on the other hob. Also get an undercounted fridge freezer to free up more worktop space which should also ecourgae you to eat more fresh ingredients.

Finnish invention of 1930s: dish drying rack inside of a bottomless cabinet installed over sink.

how about sinks? We’ve always had the basic single bowl stainless with attached drainer. But we’d like bigger for roasting tins/baking trays/pans etc - but this seems at odds with a small kitchen with limited counter space

Cabinet Doors racks to hang utensils, pot covers, knives, spices.

Excellent advise! The narrow dishwasher is definitely a gem!

I rent, which means solutions for my dinky kitchen cannot be permanent. Here are my three biggest tips.
1. Pare down your stuff. How many spatulas do you need, after all? Also, paring down eliminates the need for a utensil holder on the counter.
2. Get a magnetic knife rack and put it in a convenient space on the wall. No knife block clogging up the counter.
3. My favorite: a two-tier (double decker) dish-drying rack. Get a separate utensil drying holder for cutlery to hang on it. This will increase usable counter space by about 9” (standard racks are 18” long, while two-tiers are half that long).

This would have to be the best video I’ve seen with practical ideas for a small kitchen. Thank you!

I can see plinth /toekick drawers being useful for heavy holiday platters which would be washed before use, or appliance manuals if you keep those, but surely not for teatowels as shown? It's an area vulnerable to floor dirt, invisible or not.
Much more efficient to put the microwave in a tower with the wall oven, and both vented. Great idea. Love the slim dishwasher idea, but the boiling water in a tap may result in an unwary user on a fast trip to the emergency room. With a kettle, they know where the boiling water will be.

With the extra high addition to cabinets, the idea you showed adds such a finished touch; the other option I've seen is glass paneled display cabinets with lighting for certain treasured china.

Thank you !!!!

Have two dish drawers instead of a small dishwasher and alternate between the two so never have to empty

So useful. Thank you so much!

Buy less stuff.

A sink dishwasher would be a good idea. Takes up less space. Fotile 3 in 1 sink dishwasher.

Instead of a slim dishwasher maybe dont be lazy wash by hand and use that space for storage lol

really good video. great ideas.

Found your video at the right time. Need to reno my small kitchen, and learned a lot of good tips and new terminology that I never heard before. Thank you :)

Hi Michael.
I read an article in kitchen insider about ceiling extractor hoods. My concern is that you, like others, only appear to mention sizes in the region of 90 - 120cm or 60x60cm for ceiling hoods.

However, these sizes do not benefit anyone trying to work with a small kitchen space. I am looking for
43db - 65 max.
powerful extractor 700+ m3/hr
Size 60-30cm or 65 -74cm
Can you advise?

Marvellous, thank you. Now i know what i am going to include in my new Kitchen, to be installed in quite a small space. I would have loved a mini breakfast bar..any suggestions please?

Thank you for the idea of plinth boxes. They would be great for my Christmas plates and mugs!

How can I get in contact with you, I want more ideas for a small kitchen. Very good job. ❤

Amazing!!!!!!!!!! great content........

I have just bourght my first home ! Completed yesterday and this has helped me sooo much ! Thank you so much have subscribed 💗😁

This is fantastic, thank you.

I prefer the corner drawers rather than those fancy mechanisms. Seems more functional.

I never even knew half these things existed.

Thanks for the great advice my kitchen is small !!!

Thank you for making this video, very useful

Excellent - most useful advice I have found on the internet!

One benefit of a smaller dishwasher in a smaller household is also that you don't have to wait 2 days until you've collected enough things to wash

Thank you!!! ❣️

This guy can talk!!!

I have a smallish kitchen and have used as many tricks as I can (many mentioned here) to increase storage capacity.

While some may suggest that you don't get a lot of room in a plinth drawer, I have been surprised just how useful even that relatively inefficient use of space is.

The biggest gain for me was extra shelves. With the exception of those cupboards where I store taller items, I have been able to squeeze in an extra shelf. Admittedly in a couple of instances the space has been only the height of a mug, but mugs need somewhere to go and most do not stack well.
Even these small spaces have been invaluable for storing grill pans, oven shelves etc. along with chopping boards aluminium foil, cling film etc which are long but not very tall, so no requirement to access the rear of the shelf.
Alternatively, for a kitchen already with adequate room, extra shelves can allow you to have your crockery immediately accessible rather than having to remove different sized plates etc. before you get to the the one you want.
I would also suggest avoiding double cupboards wherever possible. The additional flexibility while positioning shelves more than makes up for the additional cost.

Fantastic suggestions & showing of examples. I'm digging your channel. Glad I bumped into you. Be well.

So needed this advice. Thx!

Just astounding! You hit each of the items I had found by searching the internet over the last three weeks! Thank you for all the good content!

I love this CLEVER video. Thanks!

Great tips....my list for my extension/kitchen renovation keeps getting longer and longer...cheers for the great advice. :)

Thank you so much for your brilliant and beautiful fresh ideas! it is like having free Ideas that are a mixture of very good taste and functionality! keep on feeding us! :D

Do you have any advice on the plate storage, particularly in kitchens with limited space? Stacking different sized plates on top of each other can be quite cumbersome method of storing plates...

I have learnt so much by watching your videos. Thank you 🙏🏾

Michael.. I have a question.. for induction hobs.. is there anything you can recommend as a protector for the surface? Many thanks! 😊

So glad to have come across your channel! Wonderful, great, superb, excellent and very practical tips 🙏🏽👍🏽

All your videos are great and very helpful as about to do our new kitchen 👍 keep them coming

Great ideas, really thoughtful. Thanks!

Super storage suggestions. Your content keeps getting better and better. Cheers!

Great info as usual!

Your videos always add a ton of value to this community! Congrats on 3k!!

I want it all!!

I had no clue slim dishwashers existed! Great video!

Thank you🙏your videos are full of usefull ideas👌👌👌