How big is your kitchen

[kavalkada]

Posting here for traffic.

So, my friend came the other day first time since we moved to this flat. For context, she lives in a big lovely house, I live in a 82 sq metres flat (882 sq feet). I would like to have a nice house with two more bedrooms and nice little garden but I know it's not gonna happen (at least for now), so I don't spend my time crying over that.

So, the two of us are sitting in my dining room that looks on my small galley kitchen and during our two hour conversation she must have mentioned five times how she could never cook a meal in my kitchen because it is just too small. In her defense she has really huge kitchen and I can imagine from her point of view my kitchen looks like it was kids playing kitchen.

But is it really that small like she thinks? It has 6 sq metres (64 sq feet) and next to it is 0.9 sq meters pantry where I keep all my appliances and 90 post of my food.It is 200 cm (6.56 feet) long on one side and 240 cm (7.87 feet) long on other side. I have a dishwasher, a big sink, a 60 cm wide fridge, enough storage for pots and pans (although I have to be careful with buying new things because there is not enough space to buy what I want).

So how small is too small?

She was being a dick op.
We have a large kitchen now but had a small galley kitchen in the last house. It's was a bit inconvenient if there was more than one persons trying to cook, but other than that I had no problems.

10ft by less than 7ft with a door at each end, one of which opens into the kitchen. Along one wall there is the boiler, a large window, the cooker hood and part of the underside of the staircase so no room for wall cupboards along there. If there are 3 adults in it the kitchen it's overcrowded especially if 1 of us opens the cooker/dishwasher/washing machine door. It was difficult getting used to cooking in it etc because our old house had a massive kitchen but It is better now that we have changed the base units over from 1200mm wide to 800mm.

I think your friend was a tad insensitive to keep commenting on the size of your kitchen.

Thanks for the precise measurements op. I wish more could be as detailed as you.

My kitchen is 15.5 x 10ft in an average sized 3 bed semi (so basically the same size as the living room)! It's my least favourite room as it feels like such a bad use of the space. I'd much rather have a small galley kitchen with pantry and a larger living room or separate small dining room.