Kitchen is that one room that has to be remodeled keeping in mind the usability. This is one of the places where your spouse or you will be spending good amount of time in cooking and preparing awesome recopies for yourself, your friends and relatives. You need to think of hell lots of things when remodeling a kitchen in your house (flat).
Flats culture is popular among us and obviously so because even in mid tier cities, plenty of inventory of newly built flats and residential homes are coming up. In general, flats are smaller compared to old homes. When you are staying in a 3bhk flat of say 1000 to 1400 square feet area, you have to do good space planning while doing interior designing or remodeling of your flat. You can’t afford to waste even one square feet of the space.
Assuming you are planning to remodel your kitchen or doing interior designing of your flat let me share a few useful kitchen remodeling tips to get you started with it. Are you ready? Let’s dive deeper then.
Basics of kitchen remodeling
Storage, Usability and Space should be the focus because that’s what matters the most in your kitchen. Lights, wall colors, cabinet wood texture and everything else for style can be looked up on as you move forward.
Remodel your kitchen to have plenty of storage space
So first thing first, think of how much of storage space do you need. This is important because depending on the size of your family you may have to think of the storage space and cabinets. You can hardly do anything about the square feet area of your kitchen, but you can definitely remodel it in such a way that you end up creating sufficient storage space and still leave breathing space for service and other utility.
Depending on the size and layout of your kitchen and how much of storage space you require, interior designers can suggest you plenty of options. They can build cabinets on ceiling height for storage of goods that you don’t require in day to day life. Storage cabinets below the kitchen tops and working counters can be used for storage of cutleries and utensils. They can create space for microwave oven, mixture grinder and other kitchen appliances like toaster.
Usability
Kitchen should be remodeled based on usability. You should remodel in such a way that it has some breathing space. Imagine hosting a family dinner or inviting a few of your friends to your home for a small get together. Obviously they will be seating in the living area, but still if your kitchen has some empty space, someone could come over and help you in preparing snacks or something. So think of having some free space and walkway when possible in the kitchen.
Making arrangements for one extra person to seat in the kitchen can be a good thing (in open kitchen style which is popular in flats). It will be fun when your spouse is cooking and you are helping J or just talking on something interesting. One extra tool or seating arrangement can be fun.
Everything else on kitchen remodeling
Proper lights and ventilation is essential for every kitchen. Kitchen should have plenty of lights and unless you don’t want to spend lots of money every month on electricity bill, think of natural lights, larger window size and smart lighting. Work space the area where cutting, slicing and cooking happens, should have enough lights. If there is a source of natural lights through window, then use proper color glass or folding blinds to ensure you get the natural lights.
For coloring the walls, always go for oil painting or something that can be washed. Painting kitchen walls with strainers may not be a good idea, so opt for good quality washable paints instead. There are high chances of dirt and stain in the kitchen and it would be great if you could get rid of them easily from time to time.
For counter tops and working area, opt for good quality granite or marble tops because you can wash and clean it easily and it won’t get damaged and damped due to water.
You don’t necessarily need to keep the refrigerator right in the kitchen if its lots of space, you can even place it at a place which can be accessed easily from inside the kitchen or outside. It should be easily accessible by yourself and friends when they are in.
Over to you
Kitchen remodeling is not something that you do every day. You better spend some time and think of the best possible ways to utilize the space and layout. Proper usability, plenty of storage space, enough lighting and obviously aesthetic look and feel is really important.
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Nice post. Add a few more photos as examples. It could be very nice.
Glad you liked it. Point noted and we’ll add more picture and photographs on this post