Small Kitchen Ideas. New build.

[aowc02]

Welcome to my newbuild kitchen!

Would appreciate if anyone could recommend any improvements based on their experience on how to get the most of limited kitchen space.

I was thinking:

1) Tiling the entire wall with white bricks: similar to this:

2) installing some floating shelves to put things like cups on (thereby freeing up valuable storage space for other needy things like plates etc).

3) hanging pots and pans from under the floating shelves - idea is this:

4) on the left of the cooker, there is a tiny cupboard to store stuff in - turning this into a pull out spice rack.

5) Magnetic knife rack:

other than that. im pretty out of ideas!

 

[b0rn2sk8]

You were not joking when you said it was small, its also very white, you need to get some colour in there.

I would suggest only tiling a splash back up the the height of the cupboards, you can then paint the wall to get some colour into the room. I might be temped to go with a grey grout rather than the usual white. Tiling the whole thing with gloss white tiles will be too much white. White isn't a very homely 'colour' and really needs to be accented with something. Gloss white needs constant cleaning and shows every spec of dust.

I think hanging pans off a wall in such a small kitchen will make it look really cluttered. You don't really have anywhere to put a shelf anyway, you don't want them above the sink and any further to the left will be too close to the window and will block the lighht. You might get away with some really narrow floating shelves to put some accent items on but certainly nothing big enough to hang any kitchen equipment off.

 

[aowc02]

if this space has any bearing @b0rn2sk8

https://imgur.com/a/ui0gqLu

 

[Martynt74]

How much are you willing to change?

I'd be tempted to remove what i assume is the dishwasher. For such a small kitchen, thats a lot of space used by something non essential.

I wouldn't put cups on a shelf, my wife has suggested that in our kitchen but i imagine they'll be just get full of dust and need washing before each use. Maybe on hooks under some shelves so at least they're at an angle.

I agree, with the above posted, you don't really have a lot of space for shelves without it starting to look really cluttered. Could you add an extra unit coming out of the kitchen next to the fridge/freezer?

 

[a1ex2001]

Trouble with hanging stuff or putting it on shelves is it will get filthy.

In all honesty I would never have bought it the kitchen in our two bed flat was bigger!

 

[aowc02]

I agree, with the above posted, you don't really have a lot of space for shelves without it starting to look really cluttered. Could you add an extra unit coming out of the kitchen next to the fridge/freezer?

its what the plan is eventually - what would you do? move the fridge freezer to the left and fill the gap with units? or place the unit on the left of the fridge?

 

[aowc02]

Trouble with hanging stuff or putting it on shelves is it will get filthy.

In all honesty I would never have bought it the kitchen in our two bed flat was bigger!

could have got a bigger kitchen / smaller living room config - but that means i would have been on the ground floor. The building is only 2 floors and im on the top ( other top unit was already sold)

 

[a1ex2001]

could have got a bigger kitchen / smaller living room config - but that means i would have been on the ground floor. The building is only 2 floors and im on the top ( other top unit was already sold)

I'd have carried on my search!

 

[aowc02]

was nothing in the area unfortunately. only now have they unlocked the green belt potential around princes risborough - homes wont start to materialise for the next 3 years or so.

Additionally, thanks to HTB, the only homes i could have afford were HTB New build homes :/ was pretty restricted.

its pretty terrible that i have to borrow more, to purchase less.

 

[Abyss]

I wouldn't recommend the combination of floating shelves, lightweight block work / plasterboard and hanging pans unless you really know what you are doing with wall fixings. You'll need some pretty special fixings for the shelf not to give way after a few times pulling pans down. Most DIY store floating shelves will give way with the tmuxh weight.

Assuming it's an external wall go for shelves with a small bracket and some Rigifix

 

[Abyss]

Welcome to my newbuild kitchen!

Would appreciate if anyone could recommend any improvements based on their experience on how to get the most of limited kitchen space.

I was thinking:

1) Tiling the entire wall with white bricks: similar to this:

I think those tiles look like a public toilet but I know they are popular. Think it'll be one of those designs that people look back at in 30 years time and wonder why anyone would want them