How to Make a Small Kitchen Comfortable and Beautiful: 6 Life Hacks

Even on the smallest area, you can create a dream kitchen—what matters is to thoughtfully plan every detail. We have selected furniture, appliances, and accessories that will help you achieve this.

Choose visually light furniture

Kitchen cabinets with light glossy fronts, chairs on thin legs, tables with glass countertops, and tall bar stools. Perfectly suitable is furniture made of transparent plastic or light wood.

Even if the kitchen is very small, this is not a reason to completely abandon the dining area: folding chairs and a transforming table can solve the problem.

Design: Vladimir Berezin

Inessa Teranova: "Instead of a full dining set, choose transforming solutions".

The dining table can be folded up and will become an unobtrusive wooden square that matches the wall decoration.

These options will suit you:

Folding chair

Chico Chrome stool

Folding table

Dining table "Lil"

Make household appliances the main accent

Designer household appliances, apart from their primary function, will also serve a decorative purpose. This approach will help you create an interesting interior even with minimal decoration. Choose appliances with a minimalist design and vibrant single-color finish.

Design: Sweet Home Design

These options will suit you:

Qilive kettle

Hansa refrigerator

Qilive toaster

Sharp refrigerator

Plan additional storage

If there are not enough kitchen cabinets, additional shelves and rails will help organize spice storage, dishes, and household chemicals. Specialized shelves can also hold small appliances like toasters—this saves extra space.

These accessories can also serve as decoration, for example, rails in brass or copper look great.

Don't forget about organizing internal space within drawers and cabinets: convenient and systematic storage of tableware, lids, and food trays will help avoid clutter.

Design: Bureau "Total Area"

Viktoria Zolina: "Do away with upper cabinets or mix them with open shelves—this approach works well in small spaces. With open storage systems, your kitchen will look much more spacious, light, and cozy".

These options will suit you:

Wall shelf

Tray for tableware

Rail system tube

Spice rack

Provide several lighting scenarios

Firstly, they allow you to adjust the proportions of the room and make it visually more interesting. Secondly, it is just convenient.

Place one pendant light in the center of the kitchen or above the dining area, position spotlights over the work surface, and place a decorative lamp on the table to create atmosphere. By the way, you can use candles in beautiful candleholders instead of the lamp—they instantly add warmth and shine to the room.

Design: Daria El'nikova

These options will suit you:

Escada spot

Escada chandelier

Escada pendant

Escada chandelier

Use the windowsill

Continuation of the countertop, a bar table with a city view or a cabinet for dishes under the window—excellent solutions for a small kitchen. Just remember to ensure air circulation from the radiator—install louvered doors or make a gap in the windowsill or base.

Design: Quadrum

These options will suit you:

Bar stool

Porcelain candleholder

Guan Diamond vase-bottle

Bar stool

Do away with curtains

Instead of bulky drapes or long curtains, use blinds, Roman shades, or roller shades. First, voluminous arrangements don’t consume precious space, secondly, they always provide access to the windowsill area, and thirdly, the dense fabric of roller shades or smooth blinds don't accumulate kitchen dust like tulle or organza does. Also, they are much easier to keep clean.

Design: Julia Veselova

These options will suit you:

"Pine" roller blind

"Magic Night" roller blind Flamingo

"New York" roller blind

"Magic Night" roller blind Geometric

On the cover: design project by Natalia Shirokorad