What I want to say is, be honest with yourself about how you and your household use a kitchen. 

There's a cost to making new space for stuff so you need to ask yourself "What is the real, as well as the sentimental value of that stuff?"

When you go to other people’s houses, or bars or hotels, try to guess the sizes of different rooms you find yourself in -

the flattening out of our 3D world into 2D can be an alien step for different brains and temperaments