**Hotel and Motel Kitchenettes**:
– Common in hotel and motel guest rooms.
– Often include a coffeemaker and a mini-bar.
– Some have provisioned refrigerators with interior sensors for monitoring guest use and charging for consumables like soda, beer, and liquor.
**British Kitchenettes**:
– In British English, refers to a small secondary kitchen in a house.
– Typically found on the same floor as children’s bedrooms and used by a nanny or au pair to prepare meals for children.
– Similar features can be found in hotels, especially in London.
**Small Apartment Style Kitchenettes**:
– Term used for small apartments in African American communities in Chicago and New York City.
– Landlords divided single-family homes or large units into smaller units.
– Living conditions in these kitchenettes were often described as wretched.
– Richard Wright referred to them as ‘our prison’ and ‘our death sentence without a trial.’
– In Brazil, a kitchenette is a very small apartment with one room, one bathroom, and a kitchen often in the same space.
**References**:
– The Department of Buildings in New York City has information on the interior environment.
– Jerry Washington Ward and Robert Butler have written about kitchenettes in ‘The Richard Wright Encyclopedia.’
**External Links**:
– Wikimedia Commons has media related to kitchenettes.
A kitchenette is a small cooking area, which usually has a refrigerator and a microwave, but may have other appliances - for example a sink. They are found in studio apartments, some motel and hotel rooms, college dormitories, office buildings, furnished basements, or bedrooms in shared houses. New York City building code defines a kitchenette as a kitchen of less than 7.4 m2 (80 ft2) of floor space.
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Kitchenette:
A kitchenette is a small cooking area or a compact kitchen typically found in hotel rooms, studio apartments, or small living spaces. It usually includes basic appliances like a refrigerator, microwave, sink, and sometimes a stovetop or small oven. Kitchenettes are designed for light cooking and meal preparation.