Our family of five lives in a 750 square foot, two bedroom, one bathroom railroad-style apartment in NYC. We’re sharing our small space kitchen tour!

Our Small Space Kitchen

This angle shows our entire kitchen! The standing area between the stove and the kitchen hutch is 4 feet wide and the kitchen is 12 feet long. There are 2 windows along the back wall. The right wall has the door to our 1 bathroom on one side of the kitchen hutch, and the door to our walk-in pantry on the other side.

Kitchen Updates

When we first moved into this apartment we had a small table with 2 chairs along this wall. After our oldest daughter was born and we added a highchair to the table, the space began to feel cramped. It was difficult to open the oven door. We decided to move our table and chairs into the corner of the living room, and set up this space as extra kitchen storage.

Kitchen Hutch & Shelves

Moving the kitchen table into the living area opened up the entire wall opposite the stove. We added 3 high shelves and moved a storage cabinet into this space. The storage cabinet used to have our television on top in our living room, but we purchased a large file cabinet piece to function as the television cabinet instead. It provided decent storage, but there were about 2 feet of unused space on the sides of the cabinet.

Eventually we purchased a wider storage cabinet to serve as our new kitchen hutch. We also added an additional shelf above the others. This allowed us to move Emily’s grandmother’s China dishes out of a box in our pantry and onto a shelf. Having these dishes on display allows us to easily access them and use them more frequently.

Kitchen Cabinets

The other side of the kitchen has our refrigerator, stove, oven, sink, and all of our kitchen cabinets. When we added the kitchen hutch and high shelves, we were able to move dishes out of our cabinets and onto the shelves. We also moved our small kitchen appliances out of the pantry and into the kitchen hutch. Then we moved the food out of the pantry and into the kitchen cabinets. This opened up room in our pantry to create a toy rotation closet, which we did after completing a toy inventory.

Extra Storage

There is a small gap of space between the end of our cabinets and our kitchen window. We were able to add a 3-drawer storage container to this area, and filled it with washcloths, dish towels and trash bags. It was the perfect height to match our large window sill, and we set up our microwave in this area. We also keep our blender on top, and installed a fire extinguisher on the wall. It’s a strange little area of our kitchen, but it is mostly hidden from sight unless you’re standing right in front of it!

I hope you enjoyed our small space kitchen tour! Check out more blogs about our NYC apartment!

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