Remodeling a Kitchen

Usually when I person has decided to remodel their kitchen, they have hit a point in their home living when they are sick of what they are looking at or what they want to change. They already have an idea of what they would like and what they want to avoid.

With a big kitchen, things are easier since there are so many options and in reality, one can do whatever they want. In my case, my kitchen is a 10 by 7 and is very small so my options where minimal.

I collected a number of kitchen pictures and magazines in order to get ideas of to create the perfect kitchen for my small space, but nothing was useful. Even the pictures for galley kitchen were much spacious than what I had. So on regards a different set up for my little kitchen I was stuck.

I had to keep my already set working triangle (sink, stove & fridge). I couldn't move the sink to another location because of piping and I couldn't do an island because of a gas pipe in the stove wall. I would have love an open island (stove included) so I could open up my space and make the kitchen bigger. Unfortunately, that wasn't an option.

One thing that I had was super tall ceilings and one thing that I wanted to do was to get custom cabinets that went to the ceiling. The cabinet stores that called themselves custom had cookie cutter cabinets that were pieced together to make the kitchens people see on the magazines, but because of the weird measurements in my kitchen I couldn't do that.
The magazines and books targeted for small spaces and kitchens, did not provided me with many ideas., I basically used the color combination from my previous kitchen but this time I wanted to do it right, with lots of lots of glamour.
I postponed the work on my kitchen for about 1 year, till I finally found a company that made real custom furniture. Then, the adventure began....(See the story in My 10 x 7 Kitchen Renovation)