How can you make a small kitchen feel bigger?
To make a small kitchen feel bigger, start with light and clutter: brighter lighting, lighter surfaces, and storage that clears the counters. These change how the room feels without moving a wall.
Practical steps: under-cabinet lighting along every run; upper cabinets to the ceiling so storage moves up; drawers instead of doors in the base cabinets; a slab or large-format tile backsplash with fewer grout lines; a counter-depth refrigerator; and glass doors or open shelves on one wall.
If the room still feels closed in, opening a non-structural wall or cutting a pass-through to the next room changes sightlines the most. That is permitted work and is priced separately from a cabinet refresh.
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