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Designing a Kitchen

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Remodeling or designing a kitchen is always exciting. But instead of browsing catalogs and the preparation of the first meal, there are some stages of reflection not to miss, under penalty of making kilometers useless to survey a badly practical kitchen. Here are the important point to approach to conclude such project.

Planning
The first point in a renovation project is the study of resources and budget. A kitchen kit costs about 30% less expensive than equal cooking turnkey finishing. Are you able to build your kitchen yourself? It coulded not composed only of boxes of furniture and appliances, it must also count with cornices, side cladding, spinners end, hides headbands light, etc. In fact, people often underestimate the costs and do the budget that 60% of the actual cost of a kitchen.

Before start leafing through the catalogs, you must spend some time observing how you use your kitchen. What meals do you make in the kitchen? How many people? Do you practice recycling? (You should). What kind of tools do you use most? We have all in our kitchen of the quite personal practices and installation of the pieces of furniture must correspond to it. Your kitchen should be like you and make your life easier, take time to analyze your behavior to design a kitchen to your image.

Choose the style of your kitchen, start by browsing the catalog or surf the Internet. The cuisines often classify the kitchens in 3 categories: modern, classic and traditional. It is projected easily in a kitchen such as those proposed by the catalogs, but few of us who live in a loft or an old renovated house with exposed beams and antique character. It must pass out of the dream and reflect the style of furniture in the available space and grant the style of the kitchen with that of apartment in general. Some examples of these styles:

Modern kitchen style

Classic kitchen style

Traditional kitchen style

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Measurements and drawings
Start by drawing a sketch of part of hands on which we do not forget to see the location of doors and windows (and their direction of opening), the arrival and removal of existing water supply electric (or possibly gas) existing and radiators.

Then draw a plan for the kitchen scale is essential to realize the place is a piece of furniture. There is a not expensive software (fifteen dollars) that allow you to create your own kitchen in 3 dimensions. It is not so obvious to imagine what you see 3D on a 2D plane. Software to design a kitchen in 3D is a very useful tool and a great toy to decline your kitchen in all the forms that your imagination allows it.

Establishment
The type of location (in I, L or U) depends for much of the part, but the furniture is more flexible and should be carefully considered. There are 3 main areas, each corresponding to a type of activity:

Preparation: It includes everything here that serves to prepare a meal (food, utensils). It ensures that these elements are not pushed over 2 steps.
Cooking: This area therefore includes the hob and oven. It employs close to the hob what is used when a cooked meal (pots, utensils, oil and seasonings). All these elements must be at hand, ideally in drawers or cabinets located below or alongside the hob.
Washing: This field is used both during preparation and after the meal. It consists primarily of a sink and often a dishwasher. The sink is the most used element in the kitchen, its access must be easy and convenient, with the necessary clearance for draining / drying dishes and pans. It is ideally located by a window to have an ideal lighting. The dishwasher is — if-possible — placed nearby (usually beneath the rack) to use the same hoses and drain water.

To position elements, begin with the least flexible: first, the sink (which depends on the position of the line), the hob and hood, the columns and furniture items down, and finally the high elements.

Some tips: The low pieces of furniture with large drawers are very practical to arrange the pans. Place a group of catches along the wall to connect the small appliances. Lights under the high pieces of furniture are very useful to have a direct lighting on the scheme of work. Think of your back, put the oven up rather than under the hob. Strongly encouraged to practice sorting your trash. Bins to sorting are now available with several compartments such as glass, aluminum and iron, piles, etc.

To be avoided: The outer shelves are very pretty in the catalogs, but in reality they get dirty and grease quickly. The kinks (a piece of furniture ahead or in withdrawal by-report/ratio with the others) and decorative elements are all worked crannies ideal for dust and make cleaning a little more tedious.