New to Kitchens? Read Me First!
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Comments (13)Dear Kelsey, I am guessing that you have a dining room adjacent to your kitchen. Since the majority of us (people) tend to live and entertain in our kitchens. Most of us like to have kitchen and dining in one space. Or like our kitchen open to the dining and or living areas of our homes. You can verify this with realtors in your area to see if this holds true for the area of the country you live in. Did you consider adding the adjacent dining room space to your kitchen space to give you more real estate to play with? Click the link below to see an example of what I mean. https://www.kitchendesignco.com/portfolio/kitchen-space-planning/ These clients had a too small kitchen loaded with door and window openings. Making it seemingly impossible to get a kitchen they would love to cook, bake, entertain, and live in. Adding the dining room area to the program gave them over twenty different kitchen layouts to compare and decide from. Since you’re only playing on paper, at this point, the worst thing that happens is you try it and discover if reconfiguring how you live in your home will work for you or not. This may be your best option to change your kitchen and change your life for the better. I hope this has been helpful. Joe Brandao Kitchen Design Company...See MoreI'm building on a new kitchen. Do I want my sink in the island or not?
Comments (69)Like at least one of the posters above, my single sink gets used for prepping veggies and other food in conjunction with the adjacent counter spaces, along with dishes. I live in a rural area, and on work days, a certain percentage of my daylight hours are at the kitchen sink where I can watch a range of wildlife and can enjoy the adjacent garden and the various birds it attracts. In my 60+ years, I have not ever lived in a house without a large window (double or triple width) over the kitchen sink, even in some very modest dwellings. I can’t imagine not having the joy of a view when I am cleaning veggies and prepping food. It might be enough to make me stop cooking! (And I am someone who cooks almost all our meals from scratch.). For me it has much of the calming sense of being outdoors without having to actually deal with ticks, mosquitos, or cold winter winds. Perhaps it’s a function of how one uses the sink and how much time that involves as well as what alternatives there are to look at such as kids playing across the room or a TV....See MoreBeginner needs kitchen layout help...first house project
Comments (23)Overall very workable layout. I'd suggest reversing the order of the cabinets on the fridge/pantry wall. I often post a collage which includes huango's corner appliance pantry (top L), when a plan has the fridge and ovens on a short wall near a corner--the two on bottom R might also work: That would eliminate the open shelves in the corner and provide more storage. You might consider facing the MW drawer toward the fridge, so that if someone wants to use it while you're prepping, he can do so without being in your prep space. As others advised, I'd off-set the sink--start with DW on the right (you might need a return panel if the side panel isn't sturdy enough to support the weight of the counter top), then sink, trash pull-out, and then MW on the left. On the perimeter, use as many drawer bases as possible:...See MoreCall Out to Emily H (or any Houzz Support staff)
Comments (2)It's the Read Me thread -- what could possibly be triggering your filters? Perhaps if you tell me, I could edit it to remove whatever is triggering the filter -- assuming it makes sense to and does not make the thread unusable. Your Development Team should know what the various triggers are. This has actually happened on several different threads, not just the Read Me thread....See Morelenzai
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