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But, where does food fit into the housing picture? Well, food is another basic need. Actually, wouldn’t food rank higher in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? Yes, enter “kitchen, stage right!” The kitchen is one room to pay close attention to when designing and building a small home.

Your Home, Your Food, Your Kitchen

The desire for small homes is growing but there are challenges. I find that people start with a small home floor plan but once they start analyzing what they want and adding things here and there, the small home living idea has morphed into something quite different and the plan often grows by up to fifty percent!

For most people, the kitchen is a central part of their lives. It should not be slighted when building a small home. Let the kitchen solve part of your problem.

How a Large Kitchen Makes for a Smaller Home

Smaller homes require plenty of thought and design to make them as livable and comfortable as possible. If you center your solutions around making the kitchen not only a place for food, but a living area as well, you’ll find ways to make the rest of the home smaller. Make the kitchen part of the Great Room/Family Room: An open kitchen allows for “living” to flow more easily throughout the house.

Bring the Dining Room into the kitchen: This means eliminate the dining room! Like the old “country kitchens”. Let your interior design and décor flow too: To bring it all together, allow your furnishings, décor, and other features to overlap and compliment to give a bigger feel to the home.

Food and shelter go hand in hand just like a bigger, multi-use kitchen makes sense for small home designs. I bet you never thought food could solve your small home design problems!