Are those socks and t-shirts in those wire drawers?

Exactly. That looks like a bedroom or playroom piece. Of course, when I saw the title, I was expecting sharks, or access only over a rickety bridge, or low and exposed to oceanic whims ;0)

Eighteen bins! At least they’re see-thru, otherwise you’d need a Table of Contents. Even so, bending down all the time to figure out where the egg slicer or the can opener are would be a pita.

Are we going to ignore those shower curtain door fronts? Gross.

I am more worried by what’s behind all those curtains under the counters.

So good to have loose billowy fabric adjoining the range 🤔

The little chandelier is cute!!

Insect collections shouldn't really be stored upright in the sun either. Or in the kitchen.

The bins could be less full and likely better organized, but I don't find any of this horrifying by any means. I'm perusing Airbnb rentals, and this reminds me of some of the cute, rustic little places I'm seeing in (ahem) San Miguel de Allende.

Haha Fori—-I missed that. It looks like it’s trying to be an old-fashioned kitchen and then they plunk an Ikea-esque storage bin holder in the middle. It’s hard to tell without seeing the rest of the kitchen, but maybe they desperately needed more storage and counter space. A friend has a small U kitchen and has a rolling cart in the middle. For me, it’s always in the way and just something you have to walk around.

Looks great, if you're really short of space and don't cook a lot of greasy foods. It would be better in a bedroom, but perhaps there isn't room for a chest of drawers there. Given the drape below the counter (is that part of a shower curtain?), it looks like money is tight -- and that usually means space is tight too.

Homeschool chic.

I suspect this is all very intentional and exactly the look the designer was going for.

Trust me, one who is short on space does not strategically stack collected milkglass in prime kitchen locations.

• "Trust me, one who is short on space does not strategically stack collected milkglass in prime kitchen locations"-so very true
  
  

"collected milkglass"

Oh, is that a thing? Of value? I had no idea. Not my area of collectibles.

Yuck!

yep, yuk!!

The little chandelier is cute!!

Which one?

Are the shelves leaning or is the milkglass bud vase not sitting flat?

Looks European to me.

it looks like it could be a small studio, with that wardrobe as closet, leaned mirror as dressing table (too close to the kitchen for me). I think to maximize storage in a tiny space and add some counter space, it's quite brilliant.

You have to keep your underwear somewhere.

Perhaps it's an efficiency apartment and the bed is just an arms length from the island?

"Now where did I put my clean underwear? Oh, yeah, near the fridge," said no one ever.

At least the sink is near the cooktop?

Anyone else here old enough to have been a poor student in a basement apartment, rent $75/month and that was a lot, and barely enough money for bread and peanut butter (pre-ramen days)? Now, we are all too rich and too spoiled to recall the days of making do with the barest necessities and what we could scrounge up from the trash heap.

This would have been my inspiration picture 55 years ago.

Oh I remember everything all too well. Here they collect- probably- vintage silverware..and milk glass..and have three very nice pendants/chandeliers per space. As a separate item can be cheap or found..but altogether-it's not for somebody who barely eats at all. It's not bare neccessities stuff.

I've nothing against the picture btw, but some comments were hilarious anyway, and it's interesting to figure out what they keep in these drawers..it's just not somebody's who's really poor.

Of course there are preferences, maybe they don't buy something else but collect vintage.

But they don't go hungry either.

@sushipup1 - I am old enough to have lived in that kind of student apartment - with minimal heat to boot. But given the OP pic’s chandeliers, the large windows/patio door, and the collectibles displays, that is not a struggling student. It actually looks to me like someone rich lives there, and is trying for an affected bohemian look.

"But given the OP pic’s chandeliers,"

I don't know about milkglass, but I do know I've seen chandeliers like that at garage sales and flea markets for $25.

Regardless of whether anyone lives there or not (and what the value of that milkglass is), I think it's still a fine idea for a space-limited and financially-strapped situation.

I'll continue to remind myself what financially strapped really is, and how it really was; I find it -as of late- quite useful to try and remember. Might come handy.

Maybe not so cash-strapped:

https://www.myscandinavianhome.com/2011/11/ooooo-white-vintage-home-alert.html

Milk glass isn't valuable. But people collect it. The milk glass isn't the point.

Putting collections in prime usable space of a small kitchen like in the photo suggests extensive staging or lack of interest in practicality or...a FAKE KITCHEN.

The whole house looks kind of weird, but housing in Australia prices/cost of living might be out of this world particularly in the popular cities, so maybe someone was making do in an old house . . . the bathtub in the middle of the bedroom . . . but I've seen strange configurations trying to squeeze out utility in some older buildings in London, another skyrocket priced housing market, so who knows . . . I've seen episodes of "Househunters International" where there have been some weird add ons to houses in expensive markets, but one might make do if the view was spectacular. I saw one episode where you had to walk down into a cistern like bathroom behind a wall behind the bed in the master bedroom. But it was a "green" house in some exotic location right on the ocean, so they picked it.