1. Kitchen cabinets design layout
1) Enclosed kitchen is the most conventional kitchen, and the decoration is relatively simple.
2) The open kitchen is generally like a small apartment, or is more suitable for infrequent cooking, and it is more open and bright, and can chat while cooking.
3) Semi-open kitchen: directly change the kitchen to a wide side door, and then install a glass sliding door or a folding door. If you don’t want to remove the wall, keep the kitchen door as large as possible.
Regardless of the layout, the kitchen cabinets design plans mainly include: one-character, two-character, U-character and L-character.
If the kitchen is small, you can directly choose the one-shaped or L-shaped layout. If the space is large, choose the U-shaped layout, which is more practical. The two-shaped layout is mainly suitable for apartments with small living balconies.
There are other solutions in the layout, such as the integration of food and kitchen.
Put the dining room in the kitchen from a different idea, and after merging it together, use a screen, solid wall or glass door to make a partition with the living room.
Chinese and Western double kitchen design: It is more suitable for large homes, and it is also a common method. Put the stove in a space separately, and keep the other places open.
Some special points are: open kitchen + middle island. Island is a good supplement and aid to the kitchen operation, with a sense of life.
Small apartment Island: When cooking, an extra countertop can be used to temporarily store ingredients, and the kitchen movement is also optimized by the way.
Island with dining table + side cabinet: saving space, can achieve more functions, eating + processing ingredients, and equipped with a sink, it is very convenient to wash hands and fruits during eating, no need to run back and forth to the kitchen.
2. Kitchen line
When designing the layout of the kitchen, it is important to consider moving lines.
The optimal flow of the kitchen: take → wash → cut → fry → serve. Therefore, the functional area of the kitchen should be designed as far as possible: refrigerator → countertop → sink → vegetable cutting area → stove → vegetable countertop. It’s not easy to mess around with meals.
Common kitchen wiring problems: Some developers have fixed kitchen drain layouts and natural gas pipeline locations, which leads to many homeowners’ home wiring problems.
Solution:
1) When the entire layout is not easy to change, it can be arranged according to the golden moving line principle: as long as the position of the refrigerator, sink, and stove is a triangle, and the side length is less than six meters, it is the most time-saving and labor-saving to use.
2) The position that can be changed: It is no problem to change the layout of the water at a close distance, and communicate with the designer to optimize the flow as much as possible.
3. Kitchen cabinets design details are mainly to pay attention to color matching, lighting and size in daily use (more ergonomic).
Kitchen color schemes: share some kitchen color schemes that are not easy to overturn and are also very eye-catching:
1) If you want the kitchen to be brighter, choose the style of white + wood color.
2) The dark gray cabinets are matched with light gray wall tiles, making it look attractive.
3) White minimalist style, especially clean, pay attention to maintain the overall uniformity of the kitchen color.
Kitchen lights
Most homeowners install ordinary flat ceiling lights in their kitchens, the lights are dim, and it is easy to lose sight of cutting a dish.
You can try to install spotlights on the aluminum gusset ceiling, spend a small amount of money to do big things, and the appearance and lighting effects have nothing to say.
Reference for the number of spotlights installed: 4~5 are usually enough for a 6㎡ kitchen. The recommended color temperature is 4000k, which is slightly brighter.
Table height.
Sink countertop height: height/2+5cm, the stove is 8~10cm lower than the high table. When decorating, communicate with the designer well, and the countertop is made into a high and low table.
The size and width of the operating table is ≥60cm, and it is enough for cutting boards, cutting vegetables, and preparing vegetables.
The height of the wall cabinet The distance from the bottom of the wall cabinet to the countertop is generally 60~70cm, but it is recommended not to exceed 60cm. The wall cabinet should be lower to hold it. In addition, the depth should not exceed 35cm, so that it is not easy to hit the head when cutting vegetables.
Hood height
The distance between the hood and the stove is 75cm, which is a golden value. The taller ones can be adjusted upwards, but don’t exceed 80cm, otherwise it will affect the effect of cooking fumes.
Sink size
The width of the drain area of the sink is ≥30cm, so that there is enough space for the drain rack.
Kitchen-related main materials
Cabinet
The focus of the cabinet is not the beauty, but the practicality. The common ones are particle board and density board, and particle board is preferred.
Mesa
Kitchen counter-tops are used most frequently, oil stains are splashed, and vegetables are cut, so they must be “rough-resistant”.
The most recommended is the quartz stone countertop, which has high hardness and is not easy to scratch, and is resistant to dirt and high temperature. It can be cleaned by rubbing it. You don’t have to worry about damaging the countertop when you cook (note that the quartz content should be more than 90%).
The countertop materials also include marble, stainless steel, etc.: natural marble has a high-value appearance and a good-looking texture, but it is not resistant to oil stains and has insufficient hardness. Stainless steel is easy to clean, resistant to oily and high temperature, but its appearance is average and it is not easy to match.
Note: After selecting the material of the tabletop, you must also make the water retaining strip. It is recommended to make this kind of arc shape, both in front and back of the table, the arc is formed in one piece, there is no seam at all, and if there is oil, it will be cleaned. Compared with traditional water retaining strips, it will not hide dirt and dirt; make a drip edge at the bottom of the countertop at the same time, even if there is water flowing down, it will not drip down the countertop to the cabinet door.
Kitchen storage
- If you can go to the wall, go to the wall
The wall space is not wasted. If you put it on the wall, the countertop will be much cleaner and tidy, such as hanging rods, spice racks, stainless steel knife holders, etc., all hanging on the wall, saving countertop space to the greatest extent.
1) Nail-free racks on the wall
2) Holes can be made on one side of the sink area for scissors, brushes and other cleaning tools. You can also consider putting a drain basket in the sink area.
3) The cutting area is equipped with a nail-free cutting board rack and a magnetic knife rack, which are easy to take and can ensure clean and hygienic.
4) The cooking area is mainly equipped with spice racks and nail-free racks for hanging shovel and spoons, and a uniform spice box is more perfect.
5) Storage on the side of the refrigerator: The side of the refrigerator is also a good place for storage. Put a magnetic rack and a storage basket to store some garbage bags, sticky notes, plastic wrap and other tools. - Make good use of cabinet storage
1) Make cabinets and pull baskets
① The cabinet pull basket is well done, which can solve most storage problems. The floor cabinet pull basket is mainly used for sorting and storage, and there are more convenient things to take.
②The countertop is clean and tidy, and the floor cabinet is mainly used for sorting and storage, and there are more convenient things to take and install.
③ Like the upper layer for bowls and chopsticks, the lower layer for pots, drawer pull baskets can easily get things without bending too much, storage can be divided into categories, and the space utilization is high.
④The side pull basket mainly puts some seasonings for bottles and cans.
Benefits of basket pull:
①Strong storage capacity, pots and pans can be stored
②It is also very convenient to take things, no need to search through boxes and cabinets
③Cleaner, the kitchen utensils are not easy to get dirty
Prone to problems:
①Afraid of getting rusty when exposed to water
②It is troublesome to clean
③Frequently used, the slide rail may be easy to break, and you can make a pull basket with the corner of the cabinet, and use the 135-degree hardware hinge to match the door panel, which is very convenient for putting pots and the like.
2) Self-made orbital pull basket: Do it yourself, and spend more than a hundred to install a practical storage pull basket.
The props that need to be prepared: iron storage basket, damping slide, nail-free glue and cable tie, fix the storage basket on the slide, and then install the slide into the cabinet with nail-free glue, and you’re done.
- Make good use of the space under the sink
Below the sink is a storage space that many kitchens overlook. Buy a shelf or use a layered shelf to make full use of the upper and lower spaces.
Because it is relatively humid, we mainly put some cleaning supplies, mainly equipped with telescopic rods or storage boxes - Use the space between the gaps to supplement storage with racks
1) Use the space between the refrigerator to dissipate heat, and place the IKEA storage basket to store some miscellaneous grains, oil and other bottles that cannot fit in the refrigerator.
2) Shelves for small household appliances can be pulled out or placed in the kitchen corridor. One shelf can handle all the small appliances in the kitchen, such as rice cookers, kettles, microwave ovens, etc. The key to convenient access is to save space. . - Adhere to the 28th-eighth principle of admission
Put two parts of commonly used items outside, eight points of items stored in the cabinet, and place frequently used items where you can easily reach them. The cabinet stores heavy objects underneath and light objects on top. - Use storage boxes to classify items
Use the storage box to sort and store some small and miscellaneous items, which are usually clean and tidy, and they are also very convenient to use.
