Kitchens are not solely places where we prepare food. They're more than that. They are, to be honest, the core of the house around which many other things revolve.
Yes, it is the place where our food is prepared. And as such a lot of thought should go into the way we design and equip our kitchens. The whole process of food preparation should be logical, fun and without effort. There should, as an example, be enough storage cabinets to ensure that your kitchen will at all times stay clean and uncluttered.
A kitchen should preferably not be a small space. There should be room enough so the chef can move around freely without forever bumping into this door handle and being bruised by the sharp corner of that cabinet. Modern kitchens are getting smaller and smaller and this by no means makes the life of the housewife any easier.
Kitchen floors should never be covered with a material that is hard to clean. There's no way to keep those awful spills from happening, but when they do you do not want to spend the rest of the day cleaning the floor or even worse be stuck with a horrible stain on the kitchen floor. The material employed should be rugged and not easily damaged by detergents.
Another often overlooked aspect is that of lighting. Do you still remember the dark kitchen grandma used to have with a single small window and one electric bulb providing barely enough light for you to see her wrinkled old face? That is not the way things should be in the kitchen. When you prepare food, you are often working with small quantities of spices and herbs and it can be disastrous if you can't properly see what you are doing.
The counter is in many respects the hub of the kitchen. This is where all the chopping and cutting happens, so make sure the counter top is made of a material that can be effortlessly cleaned. It should also not easily scratch or chip. Marble or granite are very suitable materials for counter tops.
A roomy kitchen fitted with a breakfast nook in one corner can be an excellent way to give the family a place to spend some quality time with each other. One only has to think of the huge kitchens of days gone by where the whole family regularly gathered around the table to eat, joke and exchange stories to realize the truth of this.
The kitchen is in so many ways the true soul of your home. To see this, just try to visualize your house without a kitchen... - 29955
Yes, it is the place where our food is prepared. And as such a lot of thought should go into the way we design and equip our kitchens. The whole process of food preparation should be logical, fun and without effort. There should, as an example, be enough storage cabinets to ensure that your kitchen will at all times stay clean and uncluttered.
A kitchen should preferably not be a small space. There should be room enough so the chef can move around freely without forever bumping into this door handle and being bruised by the sharp corner of that cabinet. Modern kitchens are getting smaller and smaller and this by no means makes the life of the housewife any easier.
Kitchen floors should never be covered with a material that is hard to clean. There's no way to keep those awful spills from happening, but when they do you do not want to spend the rest of the day cleaning the floor or even worse be stuck with a horrible stain on the kitchen floor. The material employed should be rugged and not easily damaged by detergents.
Another often overlooked aspect is that of lighting. Do you still remember the dark kitchen grandma used to have with a single small window and one electric bulb providing barely enough light for you to see her wrinkled old face? That is not the way things should be in the kitchen. When you prepare food, you are often working with small quantities of spices and herbs and it can be disastrous if you can't properly see what you are doing.
The counter is in many respects the hub of the kitchen. This is where all the chopping and cutting happens, so make sure the counter top is made of a material that can be effortlessly cleaned. It should also not easily scratch or chip. Marble or granite are very suitable materials for counter tops.
A roomy kitchen fitted with a breakfast nook in one corner can be an excellent way to give the family a place to spend some quality time with each other. One only has to think of the huge kitchens of days gone by where the whole family regularly gathered around the table to eat, joke and exchange stories to realize the truth of this.
The kitchen is in so many ways the true soul of your home. To see this, just try to visualize your house without a kitchen... - 29955
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