An Organized Kitchen System

I built a kitchen designed for a "tiny house" with many different organizational features.

I used Fusion 360 to model and render this.

Tiny houses are "in" right now. What does every tiny house need? A tiny kitchen. But how can you maximize the space in your tiny kitchen? Products on the market can be dangerous in an earthquake or don't consider a user's full needs. For example, the pans are hanging on hooks, which can fall easily in a California earthquake. Additionally, the knives are fastened to the walls on magnets. Give it a little shake and your blades are all over the ground. These shelves may not allow for the maximum amount of flexibility that a person in a tiny house may need. This solution is unsatisfying and not ideal for most people.

I drew from many sources of inspiration for my tiny kitchen system. I enjoyed the aesthetic of a "cottage in the forest" sort of a tiny house, with light colors of wood and stone.

I had many different ideas and couldn't choose just one, so I decided to make a perfectly-oiled system of a room instead of just a single device. Here are some sketches where I show how each part interacts with the next in the tiny kitchen, and how I chose to stage my tiny kitchen.

First, I modeled a simple tiny kitchen. The goal here is saving space, so I made it just small enough to function.

Next, I modeled the folding table. As you push the folding table to the wall, the legs also fold in to save space, so you can collapse and uncollapse your table in one fell swoop. In this motion study (https://youtu.be/unrSWOHmFp0), you can see how the folding and unfolding works. The table is latched to a hinge, and as you fold it toward the wall, the legs also fold inward. Fold it outwards, and the legs fold outwards as well. It latches to the wall with a small wooden fixture permanently attached to the wall that has a flexible rubber attachment, allowing the table to remain in place when latched to the wall, and also allowing it to be easily taken down.

Next, I modeled the pan and spoon holders. The pans and spoons have rubber "socks" on them that can be attached and removed from the circular holder. The holder is a permanent fixture to the wall. No custom pans are necessary, as the socks and holder are the only things that need to work in conjunction. The socks can fit onto most sizes of pan handles.

I used the Form workspace to create an organic, soft form for both the pans and the socks.

Finally, I modeled the pulley-powered cabinets. This will allow for more storage in less space. If you do not use all of the vertical space in your cabinets, then you can conserve that space by using the pulleys to pull the heights closer together. Or, if you use too much vertical space, then you can save cabinet space and counter space by dividing those shelves to be further apart — the goal here is flexibility.

I learned a lot from making this Instructable and modeling an entire room. I am happy with how it turned out, and think each individual part of this well-oiled machine of a room is realistic to be sold on the market due to their simplicity in design and practicality in real-world use.