How to design kitchen
Here are the steps on How to design kitchen, wonderfully without hassle, but do contact our architect should you stumble into difficulty.
types of kitchen layouts
Step 1: Firstly you have to make decision on aspects of kitchen before designing a kitchen, which one of these you would like to have in your kitchen: if it was a:
- Modern or old traditional kitchens.
- If you choose traditional- do you want a Rustic or ethnic kitchen
- Visible kitchen for show or Functional kitchen for cooking
- List of cooking Equipment you want in the kitchen
- Materials you would like in kitchen
- Color theme you would like-white shades, brown shades or a dash of brilliant colors
nice kitchen designed for views
Step 2: Have a plan of your kitchen, overlay over a grid paper for easy references.
Step 3: Make a template of your kitchen equipment that you decided on step 1
Step 3: Place all the templates of the kitchen on the plan.
Step 4: Are you lost with ideas of the layout? Move on to step 5
Step 5: The 3 main kitchen fitting and equipment are: Sink(S), Fridge (F) and Stove (St), most of the architectural floor plans will have the abbreviations for these 3 equipment s as I have shown you. These are suggestions by the Architect or designer.They are usually place in a linear way or in a triangle relations ship. See diagram below
Step 6: Have you got that done, choose either on e of the layouts, if you have extra fridges than you may want to locate them as you wish.
Step 7: Now you have the basic kitchen layout. You need to ask, about:
- what about the window, and views from the kitchen, are you getting the picture
- what about the mud room relationship with the Fridge.
- What about preparation area for food for prior to cooking.
- Top cabinets and bottom cabinets
- Do I need a pantry for storage of spices? Is a separate pantry room or can I make do with the cabinets in the kitchen.
- Other kitchen equipment s such as microwave, bread maker, rice cooker, toaster,
- Is there any special kitchen fittings that you may need.
- A great cook needs a lot of space for storage of grinder, juice squeezers, etc Plan for these in your new floor plan before it is too late.Do I need a breakfast corner for morning rushes or for a good chatting moment at the kitchen?
- Asian cooking-use of oil in the kitchen needs a little extractor to extract the oil in the air. Otherwise you may have a thick layer o wax in your kitchen and dinning area.
Step 8.What materials do I want to use on my kitchen.( this will be done in other articles, for great house floor plans check at http://www.sda-architect.com/
Appendix
*1, pg 51…”Country Living easy Transformations Kitchen” by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
*2pg 51”Great American Kitchen collection “ by Meredith Corporation
