These 14 Compact Kitchen Renovations Start With the Best Ingredients

Sara and Jeremy Imhoff bought their first home, a run-down 1918 bungalow, in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood in 2005. In the spring of the following year, they embarked on an extensive renovation, doing much of the work themselves. They demolished a wall that had separated the old kitchen from a small dining room, leaving behind the old doorframe "as a sculptural memory piece," Sara says. By stripping away drywall, they reclaimed some inches around the old service chimney, which they now use to vent their range hood, and created enough space to squeeze in a 24-inch Liebherr refrigerator.