This coffee machine is small space friendly. I replaced my kureg machine with this one and it didn’t need any extra space. It was a little confusing to get it to run it’s first course. It make weird clicking noises and no water was coming out like the instructions said. I almost just took it back. Then we added beans to see if it really did work, and it worked!! Our apartment smelled soooo good. We used the beans it came with and it made an espresso. We can’t wait to try all its other functions.