PLAN THE PERFECT KITCHEN IN 10 SIMPLE STEPS
1 SUSS OUT STORAGE
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your kitchen looks, if the storage is poorly positioned, or inadequate, you’ll soon fall out of love. ‘The amount and type of storage in your kitchen is one of the most crucial elements and should be considered from the start so that the kitchen will fulfill all your needs from day one,’ says Sinead Trainor, kitchen category manager at LochAnna Kitchens. The goal is to have everything positioned close to where it’s going to be used – pans near the cooker, cleaning products under the sink, and so on. Placing a larder unit next to the fridge will make it easy to gather ingredients (ambient and chilled) in one trip. Crockery, glassware and cutlery should be stored near the dishwasher for easy unloading, but not too far from the dining table.
The less you use something, the further it can be from the heart of the kitchen. Top cupboards that require a stool for access should be reserved for rarely used items, like Christmas platters and posh table linen. Often the stuff that clutters up a kitchen has nothing to do with cooking. Household paperwork, mail and homework can collect like snowdrifts on worktops. If space allows, consider a filing cabinet-style unit, and have a drawer for small objects like pens, batteries and receipts.
2 PLOT THE LAYOUT
The layout of kitchen cabinets is the framework that defines the smooth flow of
