Some houses are too small to include a separate dining room and sometimes even too small to really be considered an eat-in kitchen. When these space issues come up, you might find yourself eating on the couch in the living room, or even in your bed. If you have children, not being able to eat in the kitchen can lead to food being left around, crumbs being embedded into the floor and pests coming to bother you. Tampa kitchen remodeling companies are professionals when it comes to designing innovative floor plans for small house kitchens. 

Creative Floor Plans in Small Kitchens

When you want your family to eat in the kitchen, but there is not enough space to make it happen, your Tampa kitchen remodeling team will need to be super creative. A full kitchen expansion is always the best option, but it is also the most expensive and some homeowners are working with limited budgets. 

Luckily, there are a few ways your contractors can increase seating capacity in your kitchen without breaking the bank. 

  • Kitchen Islands with Bar Stools- A kitchen island takes up less space than a dining table and can also be useful for storage in a small kitchen. 
  • Elongated Counter Tops- When your counter tops extend past the lower cabinets a foot or two, it creates enough space for two barstools to be stored under the counter and be pulled out for two people to eat at the end of the counter. This extension can also give cooks more prep space to work with.
  • Breakfast Nooks- The breakfast nooks are exceedingly popular for Tampa kitchen remodels because they create a lot of seating without needing you take away a lot of floor space. Two bench seats are created on the wall attaching at a right angle in the corner and a table stands in the center. Families can add chairs when they need to on the side of the table not bordered by the benches and can take the chairs away when they need more space to walk through when not eating. 

A Tampa kitchen remodeling expert can help homeowners decide which options for creating space will work best in their homes to ensure efficiency. If you have always thought Tampa kitchen remodeling was out of reach, you will be delighted to see the options a professional designer can open for your home. 

If you need to speak to an expert about your kitchen remodeling project, contact The Bath & Kitchen Gallery at 813-454-0592.