Welcome to the second installment of the series. In the first ‘Make a Small Kitchen Look Bigger‘, we covered the benefits of painting the kitchen white and utilizing narrow furniture.
This one is going to focus on how to open up smaller kitchens, both literally and aesthetically.
Natural Light Is Your Friend
You may be limited by the number of and size of the windows in your kitchen, but how you treat them can have a drastic impact. Try to keep the window treatments to a minimum. If privacy is necessary, try a valance. These allow an abundance of natural light without opening up your kitchen to on-lookers.
Remove the Barriers
By eliminating walls, both physically and metaphorically, you can trick they eye into thinking the kitchen is substantially larger when the square footage of the space has not changed.
Take the Stainless Steel Top Kitchen Cart by Home Styles for example, it has no cabinet doors or sides to obstruct the view, so the eye can flow through and around it, which aides in the open space concept.
The cart features a solid wood construction in natural finish, stainless steel top, brushed steel hardware, two utility drawers, two shelves and casters.
Depending upon the layout of the kitchen, it may be possible to even remove a part of the wall. It goes without saying that this will make the kitchen feel more expansive.