Anyone working in a small kitchen will always wish that they had more room to work with
. Cooking involves so much of activity that one needs enough space to move around, pick up different vessels and prepare food for cooking and co ordinate all activities to be able to create mouth-watering dishes.
Most people cannot imagine working in a kitchen without a center table. This is a must for doing all the pre work for cooking. But come to think again, may be it makes sense not to have a table and make room to move about.
Not to miss out on the kitchen counters. These are very useful and multi purpose too. Whatever chefs do on the kitchen table can be done on the counters too.
Yes kitchen does need floor space. But it is not for sitting down and cooking, but to be able to move around the kitchen freely without obstructions. No body now a days cook on the floor unlike olden days. Besides it is unhygienic too. Counters that have tabletops made out of solid stone or tile like granite and placed at the right height make good work place for chefs to all the preparatory work.
However kitchen tables are always very useful and multi purpose that enable you to prepare the food at one central place without having to move about. Thereby you can use counters as storage place.
The chairs around the kitchen table comes in handy too. You can get people to come and help you out with cutting, cleaning and other preparatory works.
But if your kitchen does not have ample room to accommodate the TABLE AND chairs, you can still do a work around. One can always opt for folding chairs and tables against walls that can be stacked away neatly and used only when required.
You can even setup a small food counter and let people have buffet dinner. Thereby by you will be able to save space and give them enough space to move around. Few stools here and there will suffice.
Quite often we are faced with this no go situation where the kitchen is small and we have no space for a table but we want to have everything in place. Well this is where innovative solutions help us achieve what we want.