Cooking good food in a kitchen you love is a great experience – ask my husband! But what if you don’t love your kitchen? Kitchen stresses can totally impede upon our cooking successes. Depending on your budget and timing, you could create the kitchen of your dreams, making your time in there fun!Remodeling a kitchen is no easy task, so make sure you plan before you start. Here are a few things you may want to consider.
Layout
If your kitchen layout is wrong, your food is going to suffer. Ensuring that your kitchen layout works will make cooking so much easier. Having to go out of your way to access the stove or fridge isn’t baked into the cooking time. Have you ever heard of the “kitchen triangle”? It’s when your sink, oven and refrigerator are placed so they form a triangle, making it the most efficient layout when it comes to cooking.
FIXTURES
The fixtures are a major feature of any kitchen. Not having the fixtures you need, or having them in the wrong places, will be a significant set back. When planning your kitchen design think about what fixtures could do for you, and set them in the most convenient places. Do you want an island on which to prepare food? If that’s the case, what cabinets do you need surrounding it? Where do you want a dishwasher installed? Think about the sizes of the cabinets, too. Having small cabinets around the oven is going to mean that you can’t fit saucepans and cooking essentials in there. Solve the problem and save yourself having to travel across the kitchen to reach them!
OVEN AND COOKTOP
Take time to think about what oven and cooktop would best serve you. Think about how much cooking you normally do. What size oven would be best? Would four cooktop burners work for you, or do you need six? This is the perfect time to expand your cooking options. Having to juggle with too few burners and a tiny oven space isn’t optimal if you love to cook. If you find you’re cramming your oven full, look into a double oven if space allows. How large your family is and how frequently you entertain guests are other factors to take into consideration. Cooking for a lot of people can be hard when you don’t have the facilities!
WORK SURFACES
Different work surface materials are useful for different things. Before taking a look around, get yourself comfortable with the different options, like the ones here. There are many materials to choose from but it all