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my husband and i have a rental with a kitchen that small --almost identical actually--or used to be. We did put some work on it and we love it.
here are some of the things we did:

1)
Changed the floor --which changed the whole feel of the kitchen.
We got a box of laminate flooring(laminate wood planks-walnut colored ) @ the home depot-about $ 40 and it looks gorgeous. it does not try to match exactly the wood floors of the apartment but it compliments it.

2)Painted all the cabinets white --and added cute knobs that i found at anthropologie.

3)Right above the cabinets i have the same exact structural beam that you have--we added a shelf from ikea--actually two that form and L-shaped display shelf, where i put all my white china. It looks really nice.

4)We painted 2 walls of the kitchen with a bright color (yellow actually) and all the rest white.

5)We added a stainless steel sheet (again from the home depot ) as a back splash behind the stove.

6)We also hanged all the wall hanging systems from ikea in the back splash--with most of the utensils since I dont have any drawers.

7) we hanged also in the ceiling some of the ikea bars which i ended up using as pot racks, i just hang them from there.

good luck

hi, I love your home
I really do
also your carpets
where did you get the gorgeous carpet--orange ???red???
in the living room
thank you