Where is the property?

Is this a legally permitted apartment in a house? That exhaust ductwork is a red flag.

What is your budget for changes?

Dimensions? Can you take a photo of the kitchen with your back to the window? And one with your back to the stove. If you've got enough space, it might be possible to add shallow-depth cabinets on the left wall, but we can't tell from your single photo.

Ikea kitchen cabinets are your friend if you've got the budget for them.

If you can't do Ikea, then hire someone to enclose those hoses in a soffit, making sure whatever you do is up to code. Then:

--After the soffit is done, remove the existing cabinets. I doubt that they're salvageable. If they are, then take them out of the kitchen along with either of the appliances that need replacing. (Maybe consider counter-height refrigerator though they don't offer the most efficient storage. Then again that style fridge would add more countertop space to the right of the stove. A counter height fridge would open up window. Get a smaller stove.)

--If you're saving the old cabinets, paint them, and fill out open spaces with narrow big-box store cabinets all painted the same color. Seriously, if you do open shelving on top, you'll have room in the budget for decent wall-to-wall lower shelves.

--Put in new, durable good looking flooring while everything is out of the kitchen.

--Install great looking open shelves across the entire back wall.

--Install new base cabinets from a big box store for the bottom, leaving no open spaces. Rev-A-Shelves are super easy to install in lower cabinets including one under the sink for a small-size kitchen can.

I was making a mock-up. I came back to post it and saw that Jan Moyer had the same idea as me, basically. Although, I'd put the sink next to the fridge, if possible.

Actually, I wouldn’t disregard the island as that would offer more space in the room and wouldn’t be too expensive to incorporate. Even a large counter table from Ikea would work.

Love those, thank you

Hard to say without seeing the whole space (regarding island and back wall) ..otherwise totally agree..needs to be redone..I might go with smaller appliance (24 for a stove for example? although what happens if they stop distributing it..), smaller fridge etc. you can try and craigslist these too.

More than that-you can try and Craigslist somebody's kitchen ,countertop and all..Never I got so many letters as when we put ours, inherited from previous owners, kitchen on our Craigslist..some folks wanted all, some wanted parts..I'm talking countertops too, everything. Ours was decent almost new IKEA ,just was put in for resale no connection to the house, and we had to gut remodel anyway. My DH got so overwhelmed with responses that he enlisted our handyman and we took whatever we could to the garage, granite, cabinets, fridge. We sold the sink etc. So can be done if you have help.

Also, I don't know where you live but we here have http://www.405cabinets.com/. Something like this for example.

and it's not better than IKEA, no, by no means, but-not that bad for your purposes, and can be cheaper than IKEA)) and they install for much better price than IKEA..unless you're handy, or, again, have help to install IKEA yourself

We didn't use them for our kitchen that was for our own enjoyment thus much more expensive custom cabs..but we did use them for the "mudroom" back entrance closet.

So. You can find similar shop where you live maybe.

or, , and that'd be the best if you can pull it off, you can find a very nice and friendly local cabinetmaker..and it might be not significantly more expensive than ready made, due to your small footprint and he might know great granite guy(you might need just a remnant here. huge price difference). or use laminate..They have cute ones now. And he might know electrician, plumber, tiler..instead of you piecemealing it, will be folks who re used to work together. Saves a lot of nerves.

Ikea cabinets maybe? Would move fridge to other side of cabinets and not place it directly next to stove if your changing the cabinets that is

I'm guessing that duct work is venting stove? Remove it and put in a microwave above stove that recurculates problem solved..

Investment? To flip or to rent?

Not renting it. It's my city getaway

Hey Jan Moyer, you could've been a bit nicer. "If you couldn't afford it....", wow, to be as rich as you.....
Sometimes life happens during a closing...maybe one of your sisters gets cancer and she needs help and you end up paying her bills? Merry Krissmiss to you, Jan.

Are the appliances staying and are you willing to move gas and plumbing??

A floorplan would help. Is it possible to either wrap the kitchen around onto one wall (maybe along window) or add an island or peninsula? Any of those would give you a lot more livable kitchen than even the very good one-wall layouts.