The kitchen has taken on a much more strategic role in modern times. Once purely an engineering room, it is now more often regarded as the social centre of the home. In line with its new function a typical modern kitchen is more likely to be decorated in an altogether warmer, homelier style. Gone are all traces of laboratory lighting and outhouse floorings and in their stead have come a wealth of living-room attitudes.
This does not mean to say that the primary purpose of a kitchen-cooking - can now be ignored. Food preparation must of course be at the forefront of any design decision made for this very important room. One of the most difficult rooms to organize (mistake will irritate on a daily basis), it requires loads of common sense and fore-thought to eliminate wasted energy and to make the room a pleasure in which to work and play.
If you are starting from scratch, choosing the right-sized room for your kitchen can be critical. Too small a room and you will have difficulty in accommodating all that you require. Too big and the preparation of each meal will involve you in a marathon. Sometimes the use of two inter-connecting rooms can provide the best answer, the main one being reserved for cooking and the secondary one for food storage, laundry, dining, or other activity.
Typical Kitchen Layout
It is always a good idea to start by listing all the activities you wish to cater for in your kitchen. Apart from the obvious ones related to cooking, you may wish to launder and iron clothes, arrange flowers, serve informal meals, store party equipment, accommodate a central-heating boiler, provide space for a child to play and so on. If your kitchen has a door to the exterior, you may also need to allocate space for the storage of outdoor clothing, and if there are pets in the house, finding them a corner in which to curl up may be a priority. When you have completed your list, its time to draw up another detailing all the equipment and storage requirements necessitated by the various activities you have listed.
Easily forgotten is the matter of waste disposal. A small skip might be appropriate in some kitchens, but a more practical solution may be the combination of large swing-bin and a waste disposal unit attached to the sink. A waste compactor will also help minimize the volume of waste for disposal. Ventilation is another aspect easily overlooked: do you really want to be reminded of what you ate for dinner last night? There are various solutions - a vent in a window or exterior wall or an extractor system over a hob that recycles the air through filters. Best of all, however, is an extractor that wafts kitchen vapours directly to the exterior.
Once all the important planning decisions have been made, its time to decide upon the style you wish to adopt. Perusal of kitchen magazines and brochures plus visits to showroom should fill you with inspiration.
Typical standard size and dimension for kitchen cabinet.
the natural wood and white color helps to harmonize and soften the space creating a perfect balance with the dark color. And include some greenery to add some contrast. Dark color tends not to look heavy, its just has a little of masculinity into the kitchen.
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