Your kitchen looks so warm and inviting .,No matter what design style your kitchen is, there is one thing that always looks timeless and elegant on the counters, and that's a cat.
You brought back a memory. Especially when making salmon, my mom would light a bayberry candle. My apartment complex doesn’t allow candles, so I’ll get a spray (plentiful this time of year, as it’s Christmasy).
I started watching you a few years ago and manifesting my first apartment. Excited to say I'll move into my first studio in a couple weeks! Thank you for all the amazing tips!
My apartment kitchen is the most beige/brown I’ve ever had. Those colors absolutely depress me. So I resisted! I put a light green pearls dangling succulent on the top of the cabinets, and that was my inspiration. Nothing went into the kitchen that wasn’t these colors. You have ample counterspace! 😊 I have no room for vases/fake Plants/dried flowers. So, not a black Gevalia, but an Aqua one, A light blue cutting board with medium blue trim, propped up, Two light blue ceramic canisters (one for dog treats, the other for cookies), A dish towel from the dollar store that has a pleasant light blue light green pattern hung over a lower brown cabinet door, Dawn Into a clear donut shaped spray bottle with light green sprayer top, another matching clear donut with hand soap and aqua top, A light blue/light green, nonslip, Burber kitchen rug, An aqua ball crystal dangling in the small window. Now, when anyone enters my kitchen (including me), the brown doesn’t even occur to them.
Haha this is the second video I have watched of yours. After the first my requests was to see the kitchens and baths of the maxi studios you were showing… my wish is granted…. Thanks. And Bravo!
Thank you for a nice video! My kitchen is much smaller and just a nook “in the room”. But I still decorate it maximalist style in a tasteful way of course. Love all your videos and the inspiration I get from it.
Nice upload. Thanks for sharing. I totally agree with your Tip #1. I am an international educator and live in a fully furnished 2 bedroom apartment provided through my employer. While the IKEA and HOME STORE furniture was brand new when the building became available in 2016, it wasn't my "personal" style or anything that I would have purchased for my actual home back in The States. However, as a lover of interior decoration, I knew that I needed to work with the dominant furniture, flooring, and tiling that was already installed. By leaning into the color scheme already defined, I was able to compliment the interior through the finishing decor that I ultimately purchased to make my accommodations more aligned with my personal aesthetics.
Your kitchen actually has a lot of counterspace and cabinets for its size. If you look at real estate listings, you will see that they removed virtually everything off the counters to make them look bigger. I love how you styled them. Shopping for my home is also my happy place. I'm more likely to spend on my house than on myself.
I've generally had small kitchens. My current kitchen in my under 400 sq ft studio is roughly 7x8.5 feet or just under 60 sq ft. Since my niche is small space living and/or things that work for the neurodiverse/chronically disorganized, I tend a bit more towards the functional/practical end, as opposed to the decorative (and keep kosher, so things are clearly divided between dairy/meat/parve or neutral). I seek to live in beauty, however. I used to have a lot more things on my counters and then have very little space for food prep. Sometimes we tell ourselves that we need to have all these things out for "reasons" (like object permanence, or lack of storage, etc). Sometimes that's true, and sometimes there are tweaks we can make. For example, my aqua mini Keurig machine sits out on my dairy counter but my drink station stuff is all in the cabinet immediately above. All the coffee stuff is corralled neatly in a small white rectangular IKEA storage container, which I can't find on the IKEA website for some reason. I have several of them in my pantry cupboard and use another one in the fridge for all my cheese. Four days of Trixie's dog food fits in a white canister with a bamboo lid (similar to your coffee one) and looks cute out, but I keep more of her food elsewhere, behind closed doors. In the summer I bring my big dairy toaster oven back from my storage and it takes up space on my counter. However, it's too useful not to have it there! (I avoid using the gas oven in summer, due to how it heats the already hot kitchen!) When I no longer need it, the toaster oven goes back to storage (which is *hundreds of dollars* cheaper per month than renting a larger place would be). One styling tip would be that you usually don't see outlets in magazine photos of kitchens. That's because stylists place cutting boards or trays or vases in front of them. So, if you don't like the look of your outlets, you can hide them.
For some of us, decor on a shoestring budget happens. For a while I bought the nicest in store bottles I could save for and modified those to be decorative. I.e. wrap dawn soap bottles in wrinkled tin foil, add texture, spray paint them to make them match my kitchen. If you have no space for utilities, find ways to make them pretty until you can find ways to hide them.
So I’m a chef and I moved to Arizona from California. And I still have so much cooking equipment. I’ve been slimming it down overtime but it’s hard for me to get rid of stuff l I recently sized down and I’m still a chef but when I cook all day at work. I want to simplify things at home and it’s sometimes difficult because when I’m in a big I’m used to having all those things.
I've managed to find a similar resin and wood tray using circle to search with Samsung AI. Thank you for the inspiration, and your puddy tat is beautiful.
I like my little kitchen, but counter space is frustratingly limited. So is storage space, for that matter, but that’s another story. So I can’t really do plants and stuff on the counter top. I keep the counter as uncluttered as possible, but I try to make sure the things I do have on display (spatula holder, cutting boards, etc) are stylish and attractive as well as practical.
Kitchen towels and swabs can also be pretty. Wash up brushes need to be put away, but it irritates me to always look in the cupboard when I need them . They unsightly on the kitchen sink. My dish rack is large and sturdy. But I think that it needs to go. Its functional but so ugly.. My cupboard space is too limited to put my rack away. Thank you Steffi.
Look for a small dish rack that can sit in the sink while it dries dishes and can be stored away when not in use. Regardless of how much counterspace one has, dishracks are just not attractive!
Hi... You had two (2) black and white coffee menu boards in your old studio apartment kitchen. I love, love those!! Where did you purchase them? Your channel is FANTASTIC. You could decorate a Tree House. 😉 You pull from atmospheric colors and pair the space perfectly with interesting aesthetics and soft furnishings. Thank you for entertaining us with your excellent visions and wisdom. ⚘
Aw thank you so much!! And those two coffee menu pieces were from Ikea, which I don't think sells them anymore unfortunately. You could take a look on their website though, just in case!
My kitchen is about the size of your previous kitchen in the studio flat you had and I had to get a rolling cart type thing with a large chopping board on top to use as extra worktop space. I just have to keep moving it about as I move around the kitchen. It’s a bit of a pain, but it works 🤷♀️. Where’s your kettle, or do you just use a coffee machine? ☕️ 💐
I would like advice on the unavoidable kitchen trash can. I cannot afford a pretty one of course and cannot fathom a tiny trash for under the sink, so what would you recommend for a tiny kitchen that needs a big trash can on a budget?
It totally depends on how you use your kitchen; do you microwave your food mostly or are you a dedicated cook. Pretty doesn't have to be flowers and art. It can be the pots and pans you choose, utensils you want to hang, aprons and dish towels on display, appliances that are aesthetic as well as utilitarian, dishware and serveware behind glass doors or on open shelves. Me, I'm a dedicated cook so the only flowers in my kitchen are on the dining table (I have an open plan kitchen). My island has two cutting boards sitting on top. I displayed a tray above the bar sink. I have cookbooks, a coffee pot, electric kettle and a kitchen aid mixer sitting on the counter.
Oooh you're right, all of those are examples of things that can potentially be pretty AND functional. Like, I love a good copper pan set on display, for example. 😊
Sticky-backed door and counter top coverings gets rid of all the awful stuff landlords insist on installing. My fugly brown mottled worktop is now a beautiful pale grey marbled worktop and cost me just £9/$10 in total for the rolls. It's been on for two months up to now and shows no signs of scratches, no lifting, no bubbling, and the beauty of it, it just peels off leaving no sticky residue or damage. I'm actually amazed that this cheap stuff from Temu transformed the whole look. If my cupboard doors had been disgusting brown, I would've covered those too, but luckily they're decent.
I've always been curious about countertop coverings! I've never used them myself, but they look like such a great way to elevate the style of a kitchen. Or bathroom!
If you’re like me, I can’t take brown At all. Totally depresses me. I say resist!! I just picked a color I like and saturated the room with it! You’ll hardly notice the brown.
YOUR KITCHEN IS NICE LOOKING BUT IN REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THAT KITCHEN IS A PLACE FOR COOKING AND A PLACE FOR SOME THINGS WE WE NEED TO PUT INTHE KITCHEN COUNTER HAHAHA THKS FOR SHARING 😊
Oh dear. I usually like your suggestions, but these cutesy, dust-and-grease-collecting knick-knacks - especially in a small kitchen with limited counter space - are just crazy. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but if your intention with all the crap on the counters was to indicate to visitors that you never learned to cook even the simplest thing . . . job well done! REAL cooks keep the counters - their workspaces - as clear as possible.
Maria, I think you know that the only reason someone writes a comment like this is to hurt someone’s feelings. Luckily, I adore my kitchen so your harsh words have no effect on my feelings. But as you’re commenting around the internet, it’s important to consider that plenty of people would be very hurt by such a mean spirited comment. So I hope you’ll spare people of that going forward.
@@bagobeans but like... is your opinion really so important that you need to make it known? Can we all start acknowledging that just because someone has a rude opinion doesn't mean they need to type it? Like maybe let's stop normalizing being shitty on the internet...? Maybe it's not that I and other creators need to take criticism. Maybe it's that random people like you need to behave better.
Thank you for watching! How do YOU make your kitchen pretty? Are there any kitchen styling principles that you live by that I didn't mention? ✨
Decorating Large to small and add mirrors behind small spaces can depth to small spaces.
Your kitchen looks so warm and inviting .,No matter what design style your kitchen is, there is one thing that always looks timeless and elegant on the counters, and that's a cat.
cat hair in the food?
You brought back a memory. Especially when making salmon, my mom would light a bayberry candle. My apartment complex doesn’t allow candles, so I’ll get a spray (plentiful this time of year, as it’s Christmasy).
I started watching you a few years ago and manifesting my first apartment. Excited to say I'll move into my first studio in a couple weeks! Thank you for all the amazing tips!
My apartment kitchen is the most beige/brown I’ve ever had. Those colors absolutely depress me. So I resisted! I put a light green pearls dangling succulent on the top of the cabinets, and that was my inspiration. Nothing went into the kitchen that wasn’t these colors. You have ample counterspace! 😊 I have no room for vases/fake Plants/dried flowers.
So, not a black Gevalia, but an Aqua one, A light blue cutting board with medium blue trim, propped up,
Two light blue ceramic canisters (one for dog treats, the other for cookies), A dish towel from the dollar store that has a pleasant light blue light green pattern hung over a lower brown cabinet door, Dawn Into a clear donut shaped spray bottle with light green sprayer top, another matching clear donut with hand soap and aqua top, A light blue/light green, nonslip, Burber kitchen rug, An aqua ball crystal dangling in the small window. Now, when anyone enters my kitchen (including me), the brown doesn’t even occur to them.
Haha this is the second video I have watched of yours. After the first my requests was to see the kitchens and baths of the maxi studios you were showing… my wish is granted…. Thanks.
And Bravo!
Thank you for a nice video! My kitchen is much smaller and just a nook “in the room”. But I still decorate it maximalist style in a tasteful way of course. Love all your videos and the inspiration I get from it.
Nice upload. Thanks for sharing. I totally agree with your Tip #1. I am an international educator and live in a fully furnished 2 bedroom apartment provided through my employer. While the IKEA and HOME STORE furniture was brand new when the building became available in 2016, it wasn't my "personal" style or anything that I would have purchased for my actual home back in The States. However, as a lover of interior decoration, I knew that I needed to work with the dominant furniture, flooring, and tiling that was already installed. By leaning into the color scheme already defined, I was able to compliment the interior through the finishing decor that I ultimately purchased to make my accommodations more aligned with my personal aesthetics.
Your kitchen actually has a lot of counterspace and cabinets for its size. If you look at real estate listings, you will see that they removed virtually everything off the counters to make them look bigger. I love how you styled them. Shopping for my home is also my happy place. I'm more likely to spend on my house than on myself.
I've generally had small kitchens. My current kitchen in my under 400 sq ft studio is roughly 7x8.5 feet or just under 60 sq ft. Since my niche is small space living and/or things that work for the neurodiverse/chronically disorganized, I tend a bit more towards the functional/practical end, as opposed to the decorative (and keep kosher, so things are clearly divided between dairy/meat/parve or neutral). I seek to live in beauty, however. I used to have a lot more things on my counters and then have very little space for food prep. Sometimes we tell ourselves that we need to have all these things out for "reasons" (like object permanence, or lack of storage, etc). Sometimes that's true, and sometimes there are tweaks we can make. For example, my aqua mini Keurig machine sits out on my dairy counter but my drink station stuff is all in the cabinet immediately above. All the coffee stuff is corralled neatly in a small white rectangular IKEA storage container, which I can't find on the IKEA website for some reason. I have several of them in my pantry cupboard and use another one in the fridge for all my cheese. Four days of Trixie's dog food fits in a white canister with a bamboo lid (similar to your coffee one) and looks cute out, but I keep more of her food elsewhere, behind closed doors. In the summer I bring my big dairy toaster oven back from my storage and it takes up space on my counter. However, it's too useful not to have it there! (I avoid using the gas oven in summer, due to how it heats the already hot kitchen!) When I no longer need it, the toaster oven goes back to storage (which is *hundreds of dollars* cheaper per month than renting a larger place would be). One styling tip would be that you usually don't see outlets in magazine photos of kitchens. That's because stylists place cutting boards or trays or vases in front of them. So, if you don't like the look of your outlets, you can hide them.
I actually like the cabinets and backsplash,you styled it very nicely too!!😊
A cat is the best kitchen/home decor ever 😊. I personally have 3 for mine lol, so love your pretty little kitty kitchen addition 🤗
Haha she's the prettiest thing in my apartment!
For some of us, decor on a shoestring budget happens. For a while I bought the nicest in store bottles I could save for and modified those to be decorative. I.e. wrap dawn soap bottles in wrinkled tin foil, add texture, spray paint them to make them match my kitchen.
If you have no space for utilities, find ways to make them pretty until you can find ways to hide them.
So I’m a chef and I moved to Arizona from California. And I still have so much cooking equipment. I’ve been slimming it down overtime but it’s hard for me to get rid of stuff l I recently sized down and I’m still a chef but when I cook all day at work. I want to simplify things at home and it’s sometimes difficult because when I’m in a big I’m used to having all those things.
I've really needed help with my kitchen. Thank you for this video, Steffi!
Always love your styling in every room.
I've managed to find a similar resin and wood tray using circle to search with Samsung AI. Thank you for the inspiration, and your puddy tat is beautiful.
Hi Steffi, hi Hilo. This is great advice, a true small apartment decor channel. Thank you for sharing 🌿
I like my little kitchen, but counter space is frustratingly limited. So is storage space, for that matter, but that’s another story. So I can’t really do plants and stuff on the counter top. I keep the counter as uncluttered as possible, but I try to make sure the things I do have on display (spatula holder, cutting boards, etc) are stylish and attractive as well as practical.
Kitchen towels and swabs can also be pretty.
Wash up brushes need to be put away, but it irritates me to always look in the cupboard when I need them . They unsightly on the kitchen sink. My dish rack is large and sturdy. But I think that it needs to go. Its functional but so ugly..
My cupboard space is too limited to put my rack away.
Thank you Steffi.
Look for a small dish rack that can sit in the sink while it dries dishes and can be stored away when not in use. Regardless of how much counterspace one has, dishracks are just not attractive!
Hi...
You had two (2) black and white coffee menu boards in your old studio apartment kitchen. I love, love those!!
Where did you purchase them?
Your channel is FANTASTIC. You could decorate a Tree House. 😉
You pull from atmospheric colors and pair the space perfectly with interesting aesthetics and soft furnishings.
Thank you for entertaining us with your excellent visions and wisdom. ⚘
Aw thank you so much!! And those two coffee menu pieces were from Ikea, which I don't think sells them anymore unfortunately. You could take a look on their website though, just in case!
My kitchen is about the size of your previous kitchen in the studio flat you had and I had to get a rolling cart type thing with a large chopping board on top to use as extra worktop space. I just have to keep moving it about as I move around the kitchen. It’s a bit of a pain, but it works 🤷♀️. Where’s your kettle, or do you just use a coffee machine? ☕️ 💐
I would like advice on the unavoidable kitchen trash can. I cannot afford a pretty one of course and cannot fathom a tiny trash for under the sink, so what would you recommend for a tiny kitchen that needs a big trash can on a budget?
I'd rather empty a tiny trash can every day than have a big one that's visible, but that's just my preference.
It totally depends on how you use your kitchen; do you microwave your food mostly or are you a dedicated cook. Pretty doesn't have to be flowers and art. It can be the pots and pans you choose, utensils you want to hang, aprons and dish towels on display, appliances that are aesthetic as well as utilitarian, dishware and serveware behind glass doors or on open shelves. Me, I'm a dedicated cook so the only flowers in my kitchen are on the dining table (I have an open plan kitchen). My island has two cutting boards sitting on top. I displayed a tray above the bar sink. I have cookbooks, a coffee pot, electric kettle and a kitchen aid mixer sitting on the counter.
Oooh you're right, all of those are examples of things that can potentially be pretty AND functional. Like, I love a good copper pan set on display, for example. 😊
Sticky-backed door and counter top coverings gets rid of all the awful stuff landlords insist on installing. My fugly brown mottled worktop is now a beautiful pale grey marbled worktop and cost me just £9/$10 in total for the rolls. It's been on for two months up to now and shows no signs of scratches, no lifting, no bubbling, and the beauty of it, it just peels off leaving no sticky residue or damage. I'm actually amazed that this cheap stuff from Temu transformed the whole look. If my cupboard doors had been disgusting brown, I would've covered those too, but luckily they're decent.
I've always been curious about countertop coverings! I've never used them myself, but they look like such a great way to elevate the style of a kitchen. Or bathroom!
Love Baby's name ❤❤❤
She's named after a a Battlestar Galactica character! 😂🤓
My new studio apartment is all white. Cabinets, quartz countertops. I’m lost.. lol first place and I have nothing.
This is perfect. I literally just moved into a new apartment. And the kitchen is brown, brown, and more brown
If you’re like me, I can’t take brown At all. Totally depresses me. I say resist!! I just picked a color I like and saturated the room with it! You’ll hardly notice the brown.
Haha I love your defiant attitude! Show that brown kitchen who's boss 😂
Haha welcome to the super brown kitchen club!
❤
YOUR KITCHEN IS NICE LOOKING
BUT IN REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THAT
KITCHEN IS A PLACE FOR COOKING AND A PLACE FOR SOME THINGS WE WE NEED TO PUT INTHE KITCHEN COUNTER HAHAHA THKS FOR SHARING 😊
What's the Baby's name???❤❤❤
Kitty’s name is Helo. 🐱
Oh dear. I usually like your suggestions, but these cutesy, dust-and-grease-collecting knick-knacks - especially in a small kitchen with limited counter space - are just crazy.
I don't want to hurt your feelings, but if your intention with all the crap on the counters was to indicate to visitors that you never learned to cook even the simplest thing . . . job well done!
REAL cooks keep the counters - their workspaces - as clear as possible.
Maria, I think you know that the only reason someone writes a comment like this is to hurt someone’s feelings. Luckily, I adore my kitchen so your harsh words have no effect on my feelings. But as you’re commenting around the internet, it’s important to consider that plenty of people would be very hurt by such a mean spirited comment. So I hope you’ll spare people of that going forward.
When. Speech. Is. Very. Slow. It's. Hard. To. Remain. Patient.
You. Are. More. Than. Welcome. To. Click. Away. From. The. Video. If. Your. Attention. Span. Is. Too. Short. For. It. ✌️
Do you miss your studio ?
I do! I don't think I'd go back to it if given the choice, but I treasure the memories there. 😊
Your kitchen is not small. It is stuffed with useless items.
Was this comment necessary, Marie?
I concur..IF U CANT SAY SOMETHING NICE...ZIP IT
@@ModaMisfit yes. It was an opinion. It's not a small kitchen. You have to take criticism too. It's just my opinion.
@@sherrijacks6215 One is allowed an opinion. It's not your kitchen.
@@bagobeans but like... is your opinion really so important that you need to make it known? Can we all start acknowledging that just because someone has a rude opinion doesn't mean they need to type it? Like maybe let's stop normalizing being shitty on the internet...? Maybe it's not that I and other creators need to take criticism. Maybe it's that random people like you need to behave better.
YOU TALK TO MUCH... YOU KEEP REPEATING YOUR SELF....BORING
Do you feel like it was necessary to leave a comment like this, Ann? Or do you enjoy trying to make people feel bad?