Small Kitchens, Big History
Greenbelt is unlike anywhere else we work: a planned New Deal community where many homes belong to Greenbelt Homes, Inc. — the housing cooperative. The original kitchens in these 1930s–40s homes are genuinely small, designed in an era of iceboxes and minimal appliances. Remodeling here means making a tiny kitchen serve a modern household, and often working within co-op guidelines.
The co-op piece matters. GHI has rules about alterations, and we are familiar with the approval process — what needs sign-off, what documentation helps, and how to design a kitchen that sails through review. We build the approval timeline into the project schedule so there are no surprises.
The Tiny-Kitchen Playbook, Perfected
A Greenbelt kitchen remodel is the purest form of small-kitchen design. Every cabinet is drawn to the inch. Drawers replace doors. Tall pull-outs replace dead corners. The sink gets a workstation setup so it doubles as prep space. Appliances go compact — 24-inch ranges, counter-depth fridges, 18-inch dishwashers — chosen to fit the room, not the showroom. Done right, a 70-square-foot Greenbelt kitchen cooks better than a 150-square-foot kitchen designed carelessly.
Old Greenbelt and Beyond
Outside the co-op, Greenbelt's garden apartments and later neighborhoods have their own kitchen stories — 60s-era updates wearing thin, layouts that can borrow from adjacent rooms. Wherever you are in Greenbelt, the approach is the same: measure everything, waste nothing, and build a kitchen that fits the home's scale instead of fighting it.
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