Deciding How Your Kitchen Would Look Like
Today's cooking areas function more than just a place where food is prepared. They provide the space where family and friends can get together, plan a vacation, or design an artistic project. Their functions have veered away from tradition, serving multipurpose in the house. Thus, if you are planning to make some changes in your kitchen, carefully plan its layout in order to take the best advantage of the space.
Getting started
Given the changing purpose of the cooking room, the best place for you to start when choosing a new layout is with how you want it to work for you and the other members of your household. Keep in mind that "function" is the corner stone and the foundation of good kitchen design. A well-designed space will improve the quality of time you spend preparing food by increasing efficiency and performance. So, you should pay attention to all the details, even to the tiniest ones.
Focusing on the workflow
Now, after identifying all the possible functions of the cooking area in your home, the next step to creating a layout is to create a working triangle. The goal of this is to place the three most important work sites (i.e. sink, refrigerator, and stove) in the most efficient distance in order to minimise traffic and to ensure efficient workflow. Here are what you should keep in mind when creating the triangle:
- Placing the three elements too far from each other wastes a lot of steps when preparing food
- Placing them closer can cramp your working area
- Each leg of the triangle should be at least 4 feet afar; this should not exceed to more than 9 feet though
- There should be no obstructions intersecting any leg of the triangle
- Household traffic should never pass though the three work sites
Knowing these details, it would be a lot easier for you to determine where to put your appliances and furniture. So keep these things in mind when configuring your kitchen's space.
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