Laundry in the Kitchen

from: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com and http://www.thekitchn.com

Hoover: While travelling across Europe, some of the places we stayed in had their laundry facilities integrated in their kitchens. This is an ideal solution for small spaces such as apartments and condominiums. Read on:

In European homes it's fairly common to find laundry facilities integrated in the kitchen, and yet here in the States the combination is rare. But laundry in the kitchen is a workable and sometimes necessary small-space solution for those who lack the space for a separate laundry room. What are some practical ways to make it work?

We've compiled some of our favorite tips here:

• Consider the top of the washer or dryer as extra counter space. You can install a butcher block or other surface over the top of the machine to make it work.

• Enclose your washer and dryer in a kitchen closet or behind a curtain to disguise them when they're not in use. Alternately, you can try under-counter units that don't look out of place with the rest of your appliances.

• Keep dirty laundry out of the kitchen until it's ready to go into the machine. (This is a no-brainer, really, but it does seem important to acknowledge that certain laundry tasks, like storing and sorting dirty laundry, should be done elsewhere in the home if possible.)

• To minimize the risk of soiling clean clothes with food, designate another space outside the kitchen for folding as well.

• Try doing small loads more frequently in order to avoid overtaking your kitchen completely on "laundry day."

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Transforming Spaces for 420 sq feet

from: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com

Hoover: Watch how creativity and smart use of space transforms this small apartment into a living abode that feels like it is more than 2x its original area. 

Graham Hill's new apartment was designed via a competition through his companyLifeEdited. A couple of goals were to be able to seat 12 people for dinner, and have space for guests to sleep and work. While the actual apartment is 420 square feet, Hill states that it provides the equivalent functional spaces of a 1100 square foot home. It has all kinds of great space saving features that will work in other people's homes — here are a few highlights:

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Compact Simply Blue Kitchen

from: http://www.kitchendelux.com

Hoover: More on compact, space saving kitchen for your home. This kitchen is designed by Pietro Arosio.

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This Compact simply blue Kitchen Design designed by Pietro Arosio, Snaidero. You can simply built-into any space to get contemporary kitchen. Created by architect Pietro Arosio, this compact kitchen have many function. blue color mix with white color exterior give a clean design. As easy as the look may seem, it required some realcreative effort to understand – they wound up having a sleek, simple means to fix a potentially complex problem. Your kitchen sits along one wall, with just one sticking out module which supports the stove, work top and sink. 

Floor Plan Light Switch

from: http://www.yankodesign.com

Hoover: This saves you the hassle of opening all the lights trying to remember which is the one you need at the moment.

When you have a panel full of light switches, it can be challenging to remember which is which. The Floor Plan Light switch offers an easy solve. The switches are modified according to the floor plan of the room and operate accordingly. So in a single glance you know which switch controls what.

Designer: Taewon Hwang

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