The kitchen is often the hub of home life. It can be the one room in the house where families get together without the interruption of the television. It can be used for entertaining guests with food and drinks. And, of course, the kitchen is the place where food is prepared and diligently cooked.
The kitchen is many different things to different people, and increasingly in modern life it is one of the most cluttered rooms in the home. As well as housing the majority of household appliances it is used to store personal effects belonging to all family members. The kitchen drawer has almost become a national institution for being the one place where everything is kept.
The Importance Of Good Kitchen Design
With such a diverse range of uses, good kitchen design is absolutely essential. Not only does a good design need to encompass the work triangle, it needs to provide adequate storage space, room for the clutter, and in some cases a place to eat and entertain. While it might sound difficult to achieve, it can be done even in the most confined or compact of kitchen spaces, if you use the right designer.
The Work Triangle Kitchen Design Principle
The work triangle is a reasonably common-sense kitchen design phenomenon and refers to the space between the worktop, the fridge, and the cooker. This is the area where the majority of the work is done in the kitchen, and the theory is that the work triangle should be unimpeded, easily accessible, and relatively small to minimise the amount of effort in preparing meals and, similarly, reducing the amount of mess made while cooking. There are even more precise rules to the work triangle but the underlying principle is that the cook needs to take as few steps as possible during the course of making a meal.
A DreamWorks Design
DreamWorks Kitchens will take the measurements of your kitchen, along with information on what you use the kitchen for, the type of kitchen you most desire, and any other important factors and create a compelling design. The design will incorporate the principles of the work triangle, wherever possible, and other design techniques in order to create a kitchen that is not only aesthetically pleasing but practical as well. Your new kitchen will look good, feel good, and work well so that you will enjoy the time you spend in there.