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Lilith Hudson

10 Small Kitchen Layout Mistakes Designers Will Always Urge You to Avoid for a Better Working Space

A tiny modern one-wall kitchen with an angular shaped island, slab cabinets, and three pendant lights overhead.

It seems that the more modern life progresses, the harder our kitchens are expected to work. That's all well and good when you have a capacious new build, but if your home is more limited on square footage, hopes of a cohesive flow can quickly fly out the window. Perfecting your kitchen layout is hard enough at the best of times, let alone when navigating a small blueprint. That's where troublesome small kitchen layout mistakes can come into play.

But, first, the good news? Small kitchen ideas can be just as beautiful as bigger ones — and, notably, just as efficient. All you need to do is sidestep some common kitchen layout mistakes to ensure a seamless set-up. For example, anything oversized has no place in a compact culinary space (say goodbye to that bulky Belfast sink you've always longed for), and it's okay to bend the rules for appliance configuration (bid farewell to the so-called "Working Triangle").

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