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We ditched the kitchen cupboards

Submitted by Sarah Rainsberger on November 5, 2007 - 08:32.

Great article, and I'm always interested in new ideas since we bought a 625 sq. ft. home in order to "simplify" life.

One thing we did in our renovations was completely eliminated all the kitchen cupboards. In such a small space, I felt traditional cupboards looked very "oppressive" and overwhelming. Plus, I'm not even 5 foot 2 so I can't reach into most of them anyway!

We store pots and pans (the few that we have) low where I can reach them, and we only have enough dishes for the two of us, so all that space would just encourage piles of junk to form.

We're still in the middle of the renos, so our design isn't totally worked out yet, but we're going to employ minimal, open shelving instead of upper cabinets so that it will encourage us to only keep what we can bear to look at every day! Part of small living is, as you say, reducing non-essentials -- not finding more places to hide them! :)

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