Often people who try to maintain discipline and order of cleanliness in their entire house like bedrooms, bathrooms, or the dining table, forget about the space under the roof, which feeds every member in the house the kitchen. The ignorance of this fact leads to numerous problems that the person could not initially imagine.

Space management is a challenge for anyone living in a small home, but nowhere do you feel as cramped for space as you do in a small kitchen. Unless you eat all your meals away from home, kitchens are the heart of every home. Unlike most other rooms in the house, kitchens are functional in the extreme, and require meticulous planning if space is a constraint.

The kitchen is often central to home and family even more so than the living room. For most people, the word kitchen brings back memories of shared family meals, of parents making a quick breakfast before children rush out to make it to the school bus on time, of conversations around the kitchen table, and of that aching nostalgia for time spent with loved ones.

You are ready to redo your kitchen, and you are very inspired by a farmhouse or rustic vacation home that you recently spent time in. Fair enough! In this day of hi-tech gadgets and synthetic material that surround us, we have all felt that ache for a simpler time, of wood and stone, of charming rural homes from another era.