A well-designed kitchen should be easy to use, easy to clean and remain a pleasant place to work. Even if you have a small kitchen, careful planning, a small reorganization and significant improvement, you can turn it into an effective and pleasant place.
Studies have shown that in most equipped kitchens, activity is centered around three main areas. The areas are food storage areas (pantry and fridge), sink and oven. From this information, the idea of an ideal work triangle arose: it forms the basis of kitchen planning, regardless of the size of your kitchen. The corners of the triangle are ideally connected by work surfaces, providing areas for cooking and serving. The ideal working triangle keeps shifts between sink, refrigerator and stove as short as possible.
The best way to plan a kitchen is to create a large-scale layout plan on graphic paper. You can use any scale you like. Although 1/25, where each square of 5 mm graph paper is 100 mm of a kitchen, is usually the most convenient.
Start with a basic plan. Mark all fixed objects on it. Such as radiators, power points, chimney, alcoves, as well as swinging doors and windows.
Then, on a separate sheet of graphic paper and on the same scale as your contour, draw the contours of your chosen kitchen units and appliances. Marking them for easy identification, cut out the shapes and transfer them to the outline of your scheme. Move them along the schedule until you get a reasonable, practical scheme.
When positioning devices, start at the sink, if you don’t want to be disturbed by the long and sometimes expensive process of moving it, it’s best to leave it where it is. A small sink with a single desiccant is best suited for small, equipped kitchens and where space is really limited, considering what you do without a drain. Instead, use the drainage rack, standing on the window ledge or screwing it to the wall. If the rack has a decorative wooden appearance, it can act as a display area, which also saves space on the cabinet in another place.
By making a floor plan, as well as the floor, you will have a more complete picture of the available space. However, before planning your walls, check what they are made of. For example, plasterboard partitions cannot hang a heavy closet.
If you have a wall space of about 3 meters, you can have what is considered an ideal kitchen planning work surface, sink, work surface, stove, work surface, otherwise the three most common kitchen layouts are Gallery, L shaped and U-shaped. A perfect triangle can be included in each of these layouts.
