That looks like the size of my kitchen (which is not a basement kitchen). How often will your family use it? Not sure I'd want such large appliances for intermittent use

We'll pretty much never use the kitchen. Only some guests will. Not sure how I could make it smaller though? Undermount smaller fridge maybe?

Personally I would not want full appliances for part time use. If this is for guests or AirBNB, offer an electric teakettle for hot water, a coffee maker, and a mini fridge. No dishwasher. Maybe a hotplate and/or hidden microwave if you think people will actually want to cook. Plus you can put small appliances away when you want the counter to look more like a mini bar.

I've stayed at plenty of AirBNBs where there was only a wet bar. I only expect full kitchens when I'm sharing a large rental with a lot of other friends so we can cook together. When it's a small BNB, we go out to eat. That means there might be a couple of coffee cups and plates to handwash, but that's not difficult, especially if you're renting very occasionally. (Or provide paper cups like a hotel.)

It’s a great layout. But if you wanted to downsize, you could do a one-wall kitchenette, no stove.

It may be overkill for an airbnb, but a single wall kitchen like one of these might add value at resale time.

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We combined a 2nd kitchen and wet bar in our basement. While this may not be an ideal solution for an airbnb, perhaps some ideas in a video of our basement will be useful. The kitchen/bar appear toward the end. Most of the cabinets are from IKEA and they offer some useful features.

https://youtu.be/3FqMEqaf0-I

Seems like it will be used for family more than airbnb? If so think of which family members you expect to use the space and think what they would want.

I like the look and don't think it's too large and would keep it as is. But it doesn't look like a wet bar.

I feel a full kitchen leaves a lot more options for future use than a small wet bar.

You can go smaller with an apartment size fridge, smaller stove and sink. It can become as small as you want .

That said, if tgere is room for the above design, why not? Things change and this set up can become handy.

Just for fun, I’m sharing this apartment that we just sold. A NYC studio apartment.

This tiny kitchen functiined just as well as a standard kitchen.

Have you thought about making it a full kitchen, but with smaller appliances? 30" fridge, 24" range, 18" dishwasher.