As you get up for your day, you enjoy the great taste of a freshly brewed pot of coffee. Except in today's modern apartment buildings, who has room for a large coffee machine? Isn't it about time to get a sleek, small space saving coffee maker? It just might give you the extra countertop space youve been looking for.

1. Drip Machines

You could go for an old style drip machine. Drip coffee machines are still one of the best kinds for beginners and experts alike. The key to these machines, though, is using a gold, nylon, or other type of permanent filters. Permanent filters make sure that flavor oils from your coffee beans make their way into the water. Plus, the permanent filters dont add unwanted flavors to your finished product. You may have to clean the filters after each use, but this little bit of extra work is well worth it.

2. Hand Press

Or turn to space saver coffee makers of the French presses and hand press varieties. Some aficionados claim that these machines produce the only real coffee. Everything else might as well be instant.

3. Pod Type

Pod type machines combine elegant industrial design and functionality. The water is heated extremely fast producing a java thats as close to a European coffee house roast. Some would say to make the ultimate pot of coffee with your space saver, you will need an espresso machines. Like the pod machines, these classics shoot pressurized steam through a cup filled, or dampened, with coffee grounds. They are, however, much harder to clean and change the filters on.

4. Percolators

Percolators began to be developed from the mid-nineteenth century, with James Nason patenting a version in Massachusetts in 1865. In both biggin and percolator devices, however, similar functional requirements are central: gravity or pressure is used to move water into contact with coffee for a sufficient amount of time to infuse an acceptable amount of flavor, and then those same forces act to remove the brewed coffee from the grounds, which to the greatest extent possible, are kept separate from the finished product. Domestic electrification simplified the operation of percolators and vacuum systems and made them ubiquitous in American homes. A critical element in the success of the electric coffee maker was the creation of safe and secure fuses and heating elements. In an article in House Furnishing Review, May 1915, Lewis Stephenson of Landers, Frary and Clark described a modular safety plug being used in his company’s Universal appliances, and the advent of numerous patents and innovations in temperature control and circuit breakers provided for the success of many new percolator and vacuum models. Notable new models included Farberware’s ‘Coffee Robot (introduced in 1937), the Knapp-Monarch ‘Therm-a-Magic” (1931) and the very popular Sunbeam Coffeemaster introduced in 1940. Sunbeam was one of the first manufacturers to move away from the all-glass construction (prized for maintaining purity of flavor), to nickel-plated copper.