Open Up Kitchen And Lose Cabinet Space?

[Guevara M.]

Getting ready to start the renovation process in my small 1 bed, 1 bath rental unit. It's a townhouse in a good neighborhood. It's only 540 sq/ft total living space so trying to make it feel bigger. Thinking if I should open up the wall between the kitchen and living area and have a longer bar top. Only issue would be that I would lose my only big cabinet on the top and not sure where glasses and dishes would be stored. What do you guys recommend, Leave it as is or open it up? [URL=http://s146.photobucket.com/user/PearlWhiteGT/media/E471C25A-A24F-47CD-B97D-D55C2312708D_zps1qldx0wn.jpg.html][IMG]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r278/PearlWhiteGT/E471C25A-A24F-47CD-B97D-D55C2312708D_zps1qldx0wn.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s146.photobucket.com/user/PearlWhiteGT/media/2E540087-B989-47AC-A413-2C283B056B09_zps4zqakdpb.jpg.html][IMG]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r278/PearlWhiteGT/2E540087-B989-47AC-A413-2C283B056B09_zps4zqakdpb.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s146.photobucket.com/user/PearlWhiteGT/media/4591D609-3BB5-4691-89FB-472CA9C358B1_zps4bkgjlhd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r278/PearlWhiteGT/4591D609-3BB5-4691-89FB-472CA9C358B1_zps4bkgjlhd.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s146.photobucket.com/user/PearlWhiteGT/media/C83435F7-C25C-43A1-B39F-DEAFD8E55155_zpsnoyrpufn.jpg.html][IMG]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r278/PearlWhiteGT/C83435F7-C25C-43A1-B39F-DEAFD8E55155_zpsnoyrpufn.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s146.photobucket.com/user/PearlWhiteGT/media/BFDB24E7-D6ED-4E9C-8FE1-FBF5E158AF6E_zpsbwaweiee.jpg.html][IMG]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r278/PearlWhiteGT/BFDB24E7-D6ED-4E9C-8FE1-FBF5E158AF6E_zpsbwaweiee.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[Zach Scheer]

What if you took out the top part of the wall, added base cabinets to the other side of the existing base cabinets then put a big island/bar top over them. That will give you more counter and cabinet space then you have now and a place for people to eat. The cabinets don't have to be deep either. You can store a lot in a foot deep cabinet thats 6+ feet long.