If you answered: a kitchen which is ten feet by ten feet, or 100 square feet, you're only halfway there.
The term 10' x 10' kitchen is often used as a convenient yardstick by cabinet manufacturers to symbolize a certain quantity, sizing, and even quality of kitchen cabinets. Even though few houses really have 100 square foot kitchens anymore, this 10' x 10' kitchen cabinetry can be applied to bigger floor plans, if desired.
Most notably, this could represent an L-shaped floor plan of 200 square feet, with the 10' x 10' kitchen on one half of the 200 sq. feet and a kitchen table occupying the other half.
It can also be broken up into kitchens of the same size, but different layouts: galley or corridor-style, or a one-wall layout.
Finally, the 10' x 10' kitchen does tend to represent a kind of contractor-grade set of cabinetry. For the quoted price--and from what I've seen, they tend to hover around the $4,500 to $7,500 range--you get about 11 or 12 cabinets.
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