Originally, the size of the kitchen was what we didn't like about the apartment. With basically one drawer and limited accessible cupboards, it seemed too small.
So we bought extra space at Ikea to store our dishes and small appliances and now it's pretty perfect. (Plus the free standing shelf is a good earthquake detector as it rattles like crazy.)
The shelf holding our pots is from Ikea too.
I recovered our kitchen chairs (finally) with blue fabric from, (where else?) Ikea. This was so simple to do. If your chair cushions have screws underneath them, you can do it. I didn't bother removing the black fabric that was already there, I just staple gunned the blue right over it. They are certainly not professional, but look much better and so far seem very secure.
I decided to decorate the space about the kitchen table with food and drink photos/art. The "C" for our last name is from Urban Outfitters. The wine painting is by Kal. The coffee mug photo was mounted on canvas by ColorInc. The vegetable photo was taken at our farmer's market and the breakfast image from our honeymoon. I would love to continue adding photos to these walls.
It's small, but simple and ORGANIZED. That's how we [try to] roll.
enJOY it 
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