I Think It's Finally Time for you to Start Thinking about that New Kitchen...

I'm the lucky guinea pig this week.

The kitchen is the most pivotal part of your house. Besides its basic function as a place to prepare your foods, it is also a place where the whole family can get together to share good times and good appetite. For this reason, it is necessary to have a main eating area that is functional and at the same time stylish and pleasant to be in. People tend to think that designing a kitchen is much more complicated that it really is. The truth of the matter is that there are plenty of designs to get inspirations from and with a few handy tips, you’ll be well on your way to designing your own dream kitchen.

The most important aspect of kitchen design is utilizing the space you have. A kitchen that is functional does not have to depend on just the kitchen floor blueprint where everything has to be crammed into small corners to make use of all the space available. One simple but efficient strategy is to create an island in the middle of the room. This makes the most out of smaller spaces by allowing for more storage area as well as giving useful work space. As the island stands in the middle of the room, this gives you more room to move about your kitchen.

With a little ingenuity you can even add a breakfast bar feature in your kitchen island design. When you talk of island design, there might be just two shapes that will come into mind, the shapes of square and rectangle. Fortunately, you’re not limited to the two shapes alone. Why not try a round island? Is this too scary? This design can help break monotony as long as you keep it with your floor design.

Luckily, the appliance industry has kept up with the times an offer an extensive array of appliances made specifically for smaller kitchens. There are refrigerators you can get that are only 24 inches deep, something that is amazing considering you can now have a fully functional fridge that lines up flush with your counter tops. Of course, there are also the ever present microwave ovens that you can fit onto the worktop just under the hanging cabinets. To economize the space more, you can hang your precious pots and pans on a rack above the kitchen island. Not only are you cutting down on space, this would also make the pots and pans more accessible when it's time to fry up some eggs in the morning. Cooking utensils, cooking gloves and other cooking necessities can join the pots and pans above. This will leave ample space for all the vanity oven mitts you can buy.

Lighting is also one of the most important aspects in a kitchen design. The right lighting will make a small space look huge. Lighting designs are in abundance and you don’t have to designate a plain looking fluorescent strip light to your kitchen. There are also dimmer switches available which would really come handy during the times that you would want to create a lay back type of mood. What comes to mind is when my mother or father would wash dishes in the evening time with partial lighting.

There are many more basic tips you can get from the Internet or architectural magazines. When you design a kitchen, make sure that you have properly outlined everything you want to be able to turn your dream kitchen into a reality.

Flavio Angeleu
Store Manager
Remodel Solution of Orlando
7400 Southland Blvd Suite 110
Orlando Fl 32809
(407) 704-2601