Tiny Triangle Kitchen Remodel Ideas
hamburgler81
6 years ago
Hello,
I'm rebuilding the kitchen in my condo after suffering some flood damage and am looking for ideas. It's tiny, and built in a triangle shape, causing several hard to reach areas. To add to this, there is a sink drainage pipe in one wall coming from the upstairs neighbor, and I believe the part of the wall to the left of the entry is load bearing. I'm looking to see if the blueprints are available to confirm this.
For the scope of work, planning on replacing the upper and lower cabinets and countertop, retile the floor.
I would love to blow out the wall leading to the living room, making the sink and counter an island/peninsula, but the pipe and load bearing portion are limiting this. There is also a frustrating triangle portion of counter between the stove and refrigerator, accompanied by an angled ded space in the cabinet above.
Please excuse the mess in the photos, the cabinets were emptied out following the water damage.
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Comments (59)Sherride, I own a rental condo that has a very similar layout as your new U shaped kitchen. I hated that kitchen when I lived there for 4 years. I lived there more than 15 years ago. Even when I was younger and did not cook much, I still hated it. Not only that the DR was too small to really use the peninsula for seating. Everytime I go to the condo, I am amazed how crammed the kitchen is for the tenants. My parents also had a kitchen that had not enough seating for peninsula and the DR table. This was in a large house built that way when they bought it. This was a poor design. No other excuse. They lived with it for years but it functioned very poorly. I hear what your DH is saying about the peninsula but it is not a very functional kitchen and DR with it, IMHO. I think the peninsula concept is about 3 decades old and it makes the house seem dated. My condo is about that age. One of the things that you and your DH can do it to go look at new condos and apartments in your city that are about yours in sq footage. Go look at real estate listings and look at open houses. Just go look! You can see how open DR/K feel in these newer floor plans. I think for some people they have to see how houses are in person. After seeing these homes, your DH still insists that he does not like it, then I guess you tried your best. Many homes, even large expensive homes have moved onto the open DR/K concept without closed in DR. I don't think it makes the kitchen feel like an eat-in kitchen at all. It makes the kitchen and DR function as if you have more space. I look at alot of small houses for investment. Small houses that have open flowing rooms live much bigger than closed chopped up rooms. Unfortunately, if you have a small house, you have to accept its limitations. For me, I would opt for the open DR/K and not have the chopped up little rooms. I really like tbb123. I think having a table without banquette seating will make it feel more like a real DR and less like a eat in kitchen, if that is a concern....See MoreTiny Family Bath Remodel
Comments (12)What do you do in the bathroom (besides the obvious) - like, are you blow-drying your hair in there? Are you straightening or curling? How high-maintenance is your makeup/skincare routine? Mine is low-maintenance, and I’m doing neither of those things in there (too curly to blow-dry, too lazy to straighten). So a medicine cabinet and a shelf or two are sufficient. The cabinet in the corner should suffice for towels, assuming a linen closet somewhere for extras, and assuming you don’t all need a new towel every day. Is the bedroom on a second floor? How much can the neighbors see? If not much, you could do a shelf or two right OVER the window. Google “shelves over window” - most of your results are gonna give you kitchens, but they’re beautiful ones. One the shelves, a jar (probably not clear glass) for tampons. Plant. Whatever else you need that is pretty or can be kept in something decorative. Cafe curtain (something cute and twenties-ish)over bottom. Console sink as large as will fit, so you can at least set down a toothbrush, toothpaste, makeup, whatever. Or a pedestal, same roomy top. Next to sink towel ring for hand towel - extra points if you find a vintage-y linen hand-embroidered one. Under/between sink and tub, basket for toys, unless you can spare room in the cabinet next to the tub. Inset medicine cabinet, the pretty kind with the wooden frame, craftsman-y. Basket next to toilet for extra tp. Lose the towel bar, put a pretty hook next to the tub for a towel so it’s there when you get out of tub. Subway tile behind the tub - currently trendy, but inexpensive and, happily, appropriate to your house. On the floor small ceramic hex probably white with interspersed black ones in some pattern - you can find tons of examples online. Paint in some cheerful color of your choosing. Maybe yellow. Pretty shower curtain - again, there are a million out there, check old house online for period appropriate bathrooms. It’s a teeny bathroom in an old house. 100 years ago people had less crap. It’s never gonna be a luxury space, but it can be sweet and fit with the period of your house....See MoreDated Kitchen - Please help with kitchen remodel ideas
Comments (1)Are any of the short walls by fridge and stove arch load bearing or contain ducting or electrical chases? I would be eliminating as many as I could to improve layout possibilities if you plan to replace cabs....that means drywall repair but worth it I think. All those jigs and jags make the room choppy. For example, removing that little wall by the fridge means you could run cabs under the window in an L-shape and eliminate that tiny cubbyhole with window. I am not sure what the purpose of the stove arch was/is but that would be high on my list of things to eliminate. What is in that short wall by the fire extinguisher? What is the space between the fridge and the doorway? If a closet, that would be a candidate for removal too. You will need to decide on how extensive you want to go and that will probably be determined by eliminating or keeping the cabs. If you eliminate them and are on a tight budget, look at Ikea cabs when there is a sale. If you keep the cabs, I would probably forgo spending a lot of money on new countertops so big box stock laminate counters should run $150-250. Using LVT tiles on the floor, painting walls, demoing the brick arch, centering stove on the wall space, removing wood valance, ditching curtains and blinds for Roman shades, and I assume updating lighting but only because I cannot see what is there are all things that could be done within a modest budget. Additionaly, how old is the flooring...old enough to be worried about asbestos?...See Morehelp! tiny kitchen remodel-layout, recessed lighting & sink size
Comments (18)Denise Marchand - thank you for all of your suggestions! We took your suggestion to move the refrigerator to the wall with the other tall cabinets but are keeping the sink and dishwasher in the locations on my original plan - this allows us to have a corner cabinet. We are using ikea cabinets so we are limited to 15" and 24". We are planning on using a gloss, white subway tile for the open walls (full wall) and back splash on the cabinet wall. We also switch to solid oak counters throughout. Do the window's it is hard to add shelving on either side of the sink. Once the wall is bumped out to even it out with the other side to cover the plumbing stack, the wall to the left of the sink only has 5/6"s of depth before the window. We may add open shelving above the dishwasher on the same wall as the tall cabinets and a high open shelf along the wall with the stove as well. We're going to wait till cabinets and counters are up before we make any decisions about adding open shelving. Since we eliminated the wall cabinets we also switched around the light plan. (below). With a 2nd row, we dropped down to 4" lights from the 6". We are somewhat constrained by the water pipes/stack and AC vents that run through ceiling. The tall cabinets will also have counter task lights. The box outline matches which switch they are attached to. We'll will make sure both sets are dimmable. Debating if it make more sense to only have 2 lights in the hall...If we add another light above the dishwasher, it could only be 10" from the wall. Since we eliminated the wall cabinets we also switched around the light plan. See attached. Since we added another row, we are dropping down to 4" lights from the 6". We are somewhat constrained by the water pipes and AC vents that run through ceiling. The tall cabinets will also have counter task lights. The box outline matches which switch they are attached to. We'll will make sure both sets are dimmable....See MoreAnna S
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6 years agoI can't see much of an advantage to putting the range across the room. If you can talk your wife into an 18" DW, and a 24" sink, you can at least get some prep space between the sink and range. You could have an 18" pull-out drawer base, which would reveal access to ROTS in the blind corner. It could be moved over beside the sink (red rectangle) for extra prep space when needed. Or, you could opt for a more expensive corner solution, pics below.
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoUsing a 24" wide fridge might allow you to move the range over enough to install a 36" super susan, and leave space for a narrow trash pull-out beside the sink.
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