Galley kitchen apartment

New York City apartments can be notoriously small — like 55 square feet small. One place where it’s easy to feel the lack of square footage in a tiny apartment is the kitchen, but fear not: There are plenty of small-space tips and tools specifically for kitchens. If you’re like Aleena Cherian (@artbyalchemy) and her husband, Jebin, and you own your apartment (or have a permissive landlord), a little DIY can do wonders.

Exclusive stories of kitchen renovations by Sweeten. Read personal homeowner stories and see the results with before & after photography.

Attention foodies and amateur chefs: There’s nothing like a beautiful, work-of-art kitchen to inspire homemade meals of the same caliber. Unfortunately for blogger Erin Hermsen (@delaneylaneliving), her kitchen wasn’t the creative cook space she wanted. “It just was not an inspiring space,” she says.

For the last several years, subway tile has been the go-to tile for backsplash in both the kitchen and the bathroom. But just as we were sure we couldn’t possibly look at another gleaming white subway tile, a new backsplash trend emerged and a more obscure classic tile material has finally taken its place in the sun. We’re talking about zellige tile (pronounced zelley-guh), a tile made from terra cotta that comes in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors. (Image by Hagan Hinshaw via House…

Galley kitchens, named after a ship's kitchen, are long, and narrow and are ideal "one cook" kitchens. For maximum efficiency when short on space, this layout with its two parallel counters excels because it make all points of the work triangle equally accessible and creates a smooth work flow for the serious cook. In fact the galley kitchen is so popular in its efficiency it is the primary kitchen layout design for most restaurants. I don't have a galley kitchen but can understand why a…

Got those small-kitchen blues? Here are five ways to redo your long, narrow kitchen without sacrificing space.

A galley kitchen can be both functional and aesthetically pleasing when thoughtfully designed, focusing on materials and optimising space.

All you need are two walls and a little creativity.

"We spent as little time as possible in the kitchen,” the homeowner says of the before.

Happy Monday! I know Monday's can be rough, its back to the grind. But honestly its one of my favorite days of the week. Why? Because on Monday on the blog I celebrate living small. As a small homeowner living in under 1200 square feet with a family of four and a lab puppy, I know first hand the cha