7 Awesome Kitchen Layout Ideas for Your Home

Hello World! Welcome Friends! Many of the activities we do at home such as cooking, eating, and drinking as well as socializing, happens in the kitchen area hence why a beautiful and functional kitchen is essential. You might have your flooring, tiling, storage, painting, and placement of appliances down to a tee but a kitchen’s functionality and aesthetic are what breathe life into the kitchen area.

Here are a few ideas you can think about as you go about the process of choosing a kitchen layout.  

Tobi Fairley

1. Make Your Kitchen Spacious

The kitchen is definitely going to be a hive of activity and you need to create a layout that will make your kitchen spacious enough to accommodate appliances as well as human traffic. To do this, you’ll have to make sure all appliances are against the walls and there are clear pathways to walk by.

2. Watch Your Counter Space

One of the common complaints about kitchen design is not having enough counter space. While choosing a kitchen layout, try and go with a design that gives you a countertop that will accommodate all the kitchen activities that occur when preparing meals.

3. Start from the Sink 

It’s a good idea to find out where you want your kitchen sink to be positioned. While the cooker and refrigerator are essential appliances for preparing meals, people spend a good amount of their time at the sink. Try and place your sink at a convenient location from where you can enjoy a view through a window.

4. Make Good Use of Your Storage

Kitchens usually have a lot of stuff and if you’re not careful, even the biggest kitchen can seem clustered by a few mere items and that’s not considering the space occupied by standard kitchen appliances. Try and install cabinets on unoccupied wall space such as the refrigerator to maximize your kitchen room. Effective solutions will ensure you don’t have to make do with a few overhead cabinets that are hard to reach. LA County homeowners like to install luxury cabinets in Culver City that fit their overall design just right. This gives them a lot of new storage space without compromising the aesthetic appeal of their kitchen.

5. Rightly Position Your Kitchen Island

Your kitchen island is where you are going to do most of the meal preparation so you need to make sure it is rightly placed in your kitchen if you’re going to include one in your design. Make sure it’s not too far or too close. An arm’s length should do.

6. Take Note of Your Lighting 

For the sake of good design and atmosphere, you don’t want your kitchen to have poor lighting. The more natural light you have in your kitchen the better you can flaunt your immaculate kitchen design. Adding under-cabinet lighting is a good idea and will prove its worth when it comes to handling knives and other sharp kitchen tools.

7. Don’t Forget About Your Recycling

If you want to maintain a clean kitchen, you might have to do a bit more than simply placing a bin near the sink area. Try and incorporate cabinets where you can place sorting bins for your trash.

Getting Started on Kitchen Design 

Choosing a kitchen layout is necessary as it is basically a blueprint for how you’ll want your kitchen to appear. It helps to draw a floor plan indicating where the dining area will be, the cooking area, the sink, and the appliances.

Coupling that with the ideas listed above should help you get started on your dream kitchen.

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