Given we can’t see an oven or stovetop, I’m guessing that’s less than half of PDM’s kitchen.
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I am now desiring a field trip to Australia.
(although that’s been near top of my list since grade one when my best friend was Australian and in the US for only one year and her older sisters got mad because she picked up a hick PNW eastofthemountains accent and now as an adult i find that very specific and hilarious and they must’ve been practicing their valley girl affect for months)
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Oooh! I just realized I have plugs like yours in my house 
Surely different as mine are 60 years oldamd not usable with modern US appliances but what if they were future thinking espresso machine wanting plugs? The guy that built my house was definitely a forward thinker.
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The fact those two psts took 15 minutes to type and still have typos.,
Yeah my desiring TECH STUF is getting stronger by the minute
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I feel oddly compelled to defend my small kitchen’s honour. It is small but I don’t think it is as small as you’re envisioning. It’s perfectly useable and the lack of bench space helps prevent clutter build up. We joke we’re practising for tiny house living in the future.
It is a fairly small machine with built in grinder (reducing space needed for two appliances) and previously about half its foot print was our electric kettle anyway - the machine now provides hot water and makes coffee (primary use of boiled water for us).
Oh, you Americans don’t really do electric kettles I think?
Here is the full kitchen with dog for scale.
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That’s a perfectly respectable kitchen.
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Thankyou. All guys want to hear is that size wise it’s perfectly respectable.
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Aww, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to disparage your kitchen. Now that I see it all (with dog for scale!) it doesn’t appear tiny. Small by American standards, but not tiny. And everything is small by American standards, right? Boy do we love our excess! It looks more functional than my much-hated kitchen, I can tell you that. Mine is sort of a box and when the refrigerator door is open all are trapped in or out, or if the dishwasher door is opened you cannot open drawers or cabinets or reach the disposal switch, or if you open the oven door you might hurt someone who is trying to use the microwave, and so on and so forth. I hate it and would prefer your galley to my box.
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We love a bit of that over here too. Modern houses are massive. Ours was built in the 60s and is petite. Single level, three bedroom, 1 bathroom. Standard these days seems to be 4 or 5 bedroom with two bathrooms and a media room.
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Is your sink small compared to other houses? Because that sink looks very small. I never see round sinks here, except in bathrooms. Our kitchen sinks are usually one big rectangle or a rectangle divided into two.
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Yeah the sink is. Not ideal for handwashing dishes - makes rinsing hard. I like a double sink but I think that was a compromise previous owners made in their reno. We tend to just use the dishwasher.
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Your kitchen has just the right amount of counter space. We have a SuperMassive kitchen but it is poorly thought through and laid out and actually too far from each zone for me to get into a good cooking or cleaning routine, and we definitely have a “flat space = clutter” problem.
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Looks around her messy kitchen and loungeroom sheepishly… Yeah, I might have that problem too.
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I prefer the layout of your kitchen to mine PDM, even though technically mine has more bench space. We both have the dreaded single sink though. I loath it.
Add a double sink to my objects of desire.
And a new stove, and oven, and dishwasher…l
Actually a whole new kitchen. It’s on our to-do list.
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Coffee machine looks great, as does the child-proofing!
…and very cute pup!
I love your dog for scale. 
I think your kitchen is bigger than mine (if you exclude the area where one might put a breakfast nook table, if one desired it, and maybe even including it), but my house was built in like 1924 and so does not conform to modern American standards. (It has not been expanded or renovated (substantively) but for one small bedroom stuck on the back in a poorly-thought-out way. It is a 2bd/1ba.)
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How do you achieve this magic? I have a small kitchen (counter space comparable to yours, I think–maybe a bit less but it’s hard to be sure because the layouts are so different) and we still have tons of clutter building up. At least I think I’ve finally trained D to move the electric kettle to the back again when he’s done with it, so it isn’t taking up important prep space.
And we do have a wonderful, massive sink.
My house was built in 1828 and does not conform to modern American standards either, but we think it was originally meant to house four families…
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In my experience, you have to be relentlessly bitch about it. Your family members will not love it, but the counters will be clear more often than not. But seriously, relentlessly. If you ever pause, they start rebuilding. 
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Well, it is just the two of us generating clutter - so I put away everything as I use it. Then put away everything Mrs PDM leaves out continually.
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