A Right Fit
Careful planning makes a compact kitchen family-friendly
Gathering everyone to eat at the same time is difficult for most families, but when home is a Manhattan apartment whose kitchen barely accommodates a table, it’s all but impossible.
So when Michael and Sandy Richman bought the adjoining apartment in their Upper West Side prewar building, they enlarged their kitchen by a third, creating a 156-square-foot space that serves as a hub for them, their 14-year-old twins, Jake and Samantha, and their golden retriever, Oakley. “We had to wedge our foot into a loafer that was a tight fit,” says Michael, metaphorically, who enthusiastically describes himself as the family’s “prime cook and bottle washer.”
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