When designing a kitchen, it is far too easy to get distracted by trends, colors, and materials, when you really need to focus on your objective.
Sure, style plays a role. But is it the top priority when designing your kitchen?
Whether style or functionality is your top priority, here are 3 objectives that can help you prioritize what you want to get from your kitchen.
Maximize Functionality
When your objective is to create a functional kitchen, consider layout, appliances, and storage.
Instead of adding more appliances, adding more storage, and making the layout larger, consider minimizing.
Use appliances that do multiple jobs well.
Use storage to minimize the number of things on your working area.
Use a layout that minimizes the steps required to access your storage.
Live Together
If spend a significant amount of time in the kitchen, why not spend it with others.
Choosing a location that increases traffic may be a good way to make the kitchen feel central to your home.
Opening the kitchen so that you can easily communicate with people in adjacent rooms is also a way to make it easy to live together.
Maximize Storage
When considering maximizing storage, you should also consider storage location.
Pretend you were cooking a meal for your family. Where would you store what you need? How much space would you need? Are you tall? Do you want to minimize steps?
Typical storage to think about includes Food, pantry, pots, dishes, silverware, and appliances.
By having a clear objective, your kitchen design process will run smoothly. Decision will become a lot clearer. And you will end up with a kitchen that is better than the one in your dreams.
Happy kitchen designing.