Our home was built in the mid-1960's and the kitchen is extremely small. This week, the refrigerator in the kitchen died. It was 23 years old so it wasn't that we hadn't gotten our money's worth but...... There is only a 34" wide opening between on wall and the end of the counters for the refrigerator and the opening is only 65 inches high. Thus buying a new refrigerator became a real interesting event. We ended up ordering one and I still have to cut the opening larger in the overhead cabinets but that isn't a major problem.
Probably sometime next year, we want to remodel the kitchen and I want to build the cabinets. One of the things I am considering to increase storage space is removing the soffits and build the upper cabinets to go to the ceiling. Is this ever done?
Does anybody have any other general or unique ideas about increasing and/or maximizing storage space in a small kitchen?
Thanks!