![Velvet Taco’s picnic chicken and Korean fried rice. Photo via velvettaco, Instagram.](https://outsfl.com/media/astroid/assets/images/blank.png)
When we moved into our 1950s ranch house here in SoWilMa I thought the galley kitchen was cute, but after a few months, I realized that the 5’ by 8’ space with about five square feet of counter space wasn’t going to cut it. As soon as we moved in, I began to save to expand the kitchen into what had been the screened-in porch that the previous owner had made into a family room adjacent to the kitchen. We started our renovation a few months ago.