Buildkar Blog 5 things to keep in mind when you design the kitchen for your home

The kitchen is the most communal private space at home, where the family not only cooks the meal together, but occasionally eats as well. It is essential that the kitchen is not just beautiful to look at, but is functional to use. After all, nobody wants to spend the whole day cooking in the kitchen even if they love doing it. Fortunately, designs for kitchens have improved so much in the recent past that one can make do even with a very small space allocated for the kitchen. More space is just an added bonus where one can use their imagination to think of what they want to do with the space. One of the first things that you should focus on is the materials you use for the kitchen. Unlike the other rooms in the house, barring the bathroom, the kitchen experiences a lot of spillage of water and other liquids and would need to be cleaned up regularly. Hence you'd need to use a material which would help you in this regard, like the marble that has been used in this kitchen. You could use tiles or hardwood for the floor, but be sure to use a type that is easy to clean. It is also imperative that you look at the advantages and the disadvantages of each before you zoom in to the one you'd like to use. (Image courtesy: Flickr.com) As with the other rooms in your house, it would be ideal if the kitchen had a good amount of natural lighting. Not only does it reduce your electricity bill, a kitchen with a good deal of natural light has a nice vibe to it. Take this kitchen where, in addition to the glass windows, the wooden windows and doors have been designed to let in a lot of natural light. (Image courtesy: Flickr.com) One of the things to love about modern kitchens is that there are so many options to help you make use of the space available that you don't need to worry even if you're constrained to use little space. Take this kitchen where the space above the stove has been used for cupboards, thereby optimising the small space that is available. Innovative designs for keeping the utensils inside the cupboards have also made it easier to arrange the equipment without it being a hassle when you want to retrieve them. (Image courtesy: Pixabay.com) A large space available for a kitchen doesn't just make the job of decorating and modelling it to your preferences easier, it also lets you use the space to accommodate an additional dining space within the kitchen itself. Take the example below where there is a table in theThe post 5 things to keep in mind when you design the kitchen for your home appeared first on Buildkar.