Top 7 Useful Tips and Ways to Simplify Your Kitchen
UNITS 1:Top 7 Useful Tips and Ways to Simplify Your Kitchen
As we know its not easy to function in a kitchen that is messy. But, with a toddler & husband in our home, Cabinets counters can get cluttered, the pantry can become unorganized, and the refrigerator can look the same, unless you have systems in place. You should have a system in your kitchen to help maintain a clean, storage & organized kitchen
1 Do Take Messages, But Skip The Extra Seating
"The
trend in the past several years has been to get away from having a
message center in the kitchen, but I think thats a mistake, Most people have always used the kitchen as a place to hang the
car keys or for the kids to store their homework or even to check
recipes on the laptop. If that describes your household, you shouldn't
take that component of the design away and expect people to be able to
change their ways.
You probably need an under counter
file cabinet more, so you have a place to store all those papers.
2 Store Stuff Where You use it
When you place objects according to their "point of main use," really think about what you do in the kitchen instead of blindly following convention, recommends, of Everything's Together in Minn. "Do you love to entertain, but actually call in caterers to do the cooking? Are you a fanatic baker?" she asks. "Make whatever you use the most often the highest priority for using the space available. If that's a microwave and the stuff you use to heat up frozen dinners, that's what you should create as the focal activity center and where you should devote most of your storage space. Just remember, you're the one who's going to use the kitchen, so never mind what another cook or family would make top priority."
The things you do use often should be stored closest to the work counters. "That means in the base drawers directly below the counters, or the cabinets right above.
The
most basic way to simplify an existing kitchen is to arrange equipment
and dinnerware so that everything's stored close to the place where you
use it. "That means dishes next to the dishwasher, pots and pans next to
the stove, and so forth, An architect based in
Charleston, S.C. "That will make your life in the kitchen much more
relaxed and will also help you identify the things you're not using on a
daily basis, which you may not need at all, or, at the very least, may
need to store somewhere else."
3 Consider Drawers, not Deep Cabinets
We often helps clients draw up preliminary kitchen plans, and one thing she always encourages them to think about is using drawers in place of under-counter cabinets. "Those cabinets can be really deep, which means wasted space and crawling around on your knees to get the stuff way in the back — and designing pullout shelves for them can be expensive, This might be an advisable approach to hold heavy pots and pans, but drawers are very helpful for any number of other things. You can use them to hold mixing bowls, for example, or create a baking drawer below the prep counter that holds the mixer, the pastry cutter and the sifter."
High-quality drawers can hold a decent amount of weight, too, she adds, and can be fairly wide if you need to hold implements such as griddles or baking sheets. One such heavy-duty brand to consider is Glide-Out, from Shelf Conversions. "They offer drawers with pegboards and upright dowels on the floor that strategically keep a stack of plates or bowls from sliding as the drawer closes,"
4 Minimize Multiple Rules
Try to limit the materials you use for kitchen focal points to two or
three if you're going for a simple, soothing look. "If you have a marble
counter and want the tile backsplash, consider making the tile the same
color as the marble, If you're using two kinds of
cabinets in separate areas of the kitchen, consider using just one
material and color for all the counters, even the island, to unify the
look and keep it from being too jarring."
Once you've tackled the concealed aspects of your kitchen, consider the visual impact of the materials you can see. "A simplified kitchen design isn't so much about which materials you use in the visible spaces, but how many, If you have a stone counter below a backsplash made up of several types of tile, that's going to look busy."
5 Sliding Drawers
Make sure that your sliding baskets are breathable so that you can store produce in them
6 Design Storage From the Inside & Out
How to make your kitchen look cleaner and work more efficiently??, Pay as much attention to the inside of storage cabinets and drawers as you do to that pretty veneer or dashing color. "If you're not gutting the kitchen, a manageable improvement is upgrading the interior of your storage, Consider each piece in terms of what goes inside and how you need to access it. Then consider adjustable and roll-out shelves, drawer dividers, and even upgrades like vertical tray dividers if you have a lot of cookie sheets."
7 Similar Jars
From mason jars to plastic jars, pick up some clear jars with lids the next time you’re at the store. By having the jars all match, you can create organized look that will make your food items easy to find.
Glide-Out Storage Systems
Harmony Storage Solutions by Kraftmaid
Chalkboard fridge by Frigo Design
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