make+haus: 5 ways to make the most of a small kitchen. When we first looked at this house, a little over a year ago I squinted my eyes, cocked my head to one side and tried to picture what it could be like if we just knocked all the walls down and made it one big room. Adding up to about 640 sqft, the living room, dining room, and kitchen make up all the common space in the house, and taking out the walls would give us access to all of it, and the natural light from the large windows that look o