Use vertical supports on the north side to train plants up without shading the garden. Peas, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, and squashes are all good for trellis culture at different points in the season. Wide row culture with narrow paths is the most efficient way to lay out beds in limited space. In a ten foot wide garden, you can have 3 30" wide beds with two 15" paths between them. For many intensive gardeners, 6" paths are the norm. Season extension strategies will typically extend your growing season by 60 to 90 days, and can be much more than that. They are easy to adopt and affordable in small spaces. Research low tunnels for ideas. Carefully planned successions and planting with triangular spacing increase crop density without overcrowding or creating too much drain on nutrients. Eliot Coleman is a good reference for succession planning. Underplant crops shortly before the overstory is to be harvested, don't wait to remove one crop before seeding another in its' place. You should have spinach growing in the shade of your tomatoes before the first frost hits. Choose short-maturity crops to allow for the most number of successions in the season you have. Plants that prefer cool temperatures can go under larger summer crops. Radishes and Japanese turnips give fast results in small spaces. Be prepared to maintain fertility with constant applications of fertilizers or compost. Intensive planting requires fertile soil that is easy to work. Lots of finely chopped, well aged organic matter will do wonders. Don't plant low-value crops that take the place of high-yielding ones that are costly to buy - look at the price of potatoes and carrots and corn in season vs. arugula or basil or mizuna. Choose crops that give multiple or extended harvests. Use transplants to replace harvested crops with a succession that is already on its' way, only seed what does not transplant well. Square-foot gardening is a method designed to maximize yields in limited space. Here is a link that might be useful: Ask Mel

Marti, up north my DH put rollout wire trays in his lower cabs. They were much lighter weight than the Rev-A-Shelf trays. So I have to be careful when I load them down with the canned goods. And they do not hold as much cookware in the rollouts adjacent to the stove. I'm not where I can take a photo of them now, but will be up that way by the end of May. I'll upload a shot of those roll outs. After he installed the first RevAShelf for me, which attaches to the cab door and the whole thing pulls out, he was the one who insisted on doing the other two. Those top/bottom shelves in a base cab roll out individually, and are absolutely great. He did not complain about installing them. Now I can access all sorts of things. If you have a base cab without a drawer, the top rollout of the RevAShelf can hold really tall objects. You could put your blender or mixer on those. Heck, they do make the roll outs with wood instead of wire, but all are good quality. I wanted a roll out pantry from them, but just the insert/metal part, not the cabinet which we'd have to provide, was up close to $1500, and I had sticker shock. I did let my DH know I was not planning to install that, so he would feel consoled by my frugal nature (hehehehe). Now it does not seem so bad to him that I want all the shelves in that pantry to have metal tracks to make them ADJUSTABLE. And he likes that too. When I lived AND worked on boats, I discovered all sorts of ways to use "lost" space. Then when I moved into MoccasinLanding, the house felt totally empty and had so much wasted space!! But over the 17 years I lived there, I gradually expanded (like a gas vapor) to fill the available space. If you have it, you will fill it. Sometimes it is easier to just hang on to something, if there is a place to put it, instead of tossing it. I try to avoid doing that. But I am a real nut about nice pots and pans, which makes me enjoy using the kitchen. When my son was little, he told me, "Mama, you are a good cook for somebody who does not use the stove." It is still true....we don't presently HAVE a stove...just a 2burner hot plate. :) But when I save up, the 24" Berta Italian stove is my dream range for a small kitchen.

We had a drop wall table in our kitchen years ago...loved it. We could put it up in the wall when we needed more space and down when we ate or worked on the flat surface. Our table was big enough to seat 3 people comfortably and four if we wanted to get close together.

I’m no expert on types of ceiling light fixtures but I do use ceiling fans. It’s hard to blend form and function with the newer LED lights, but I used a modern- looking fan w / integrated LED light in a fairly traditional bedroom in order to get the highest lumens light. If the fan looks weirdest in the entry area , you could move it to the other box or get a new fan with an integral light, and have something more welcoming in entry. Plus you likely need other light sources, so could be thinking an overall lighting plan for how you will use the space ( background lighting, task lighting and so on), as you think about where to put your lighting $$.