When designing a kitchen, the design & placement of appliances in most cases come down to how much available space you have to work with in, your floor area, ceiling height and wall layout, as well as the placement of your doors and windows.
Key factors for a successful kitchen design is to have every main appliance in close proximity to each other, position bins close to the sink/dish washer, and having the pantry close to the fridge.
Something often talked about when discussing the ideal kitchen layout is optimising the 'triangle'. Below we show some of the most common triangle layouts for kitchens, depicting positions of the fridge, sink and stove.
The sink is often placed under a window, giving the person doing the dishes hopefully a nice, relaxing view while doing so. Depending on the view out your window however, you may opt to put the sink in your kitchen island instead, swapping places with the stove.
Older kitchen designs were often badly planned, and blind corners for example were often just blocked off and utilised. Making better use of blind corners and adding either a 'kidney' or 'tessellating' system, both with double pull-out trays in blind corners remains popular in modern kitchens and could increase the available storage sometimes as much as by 25%!
Drawers with internal drawers provide clean lines in terms of appearance while utilising the available space to the maximum, and something to take into account is adding pull-drawers to base cabinets for ease of storing high use items.
Tower drawer units housing pantry items continue to be popular for smaller kitchens, but if you are spoilt for space - why not add a walk in pantry/scullery!
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