Things to Think About When Designing Your Dream Kitchen
If you think about it, the kitchen is one of the most used rooms in the house. It is often one of the first rooms that you walk through when you enter a home, it is the focal point of three meals every day, and it is the center of countless other family activities. You start your day with a coffee here and end your day with a nice nightcap. Since it is such an important space, it only makes sense that you invest in making it the best space possible! Many people fantasize about a dream kitchen, and having one is truly a feeling unlike any other.
While every house has its limitations, odds are that building your dream kitchen, or at least something close to it, is absolutely attainable. This post will highlight the most important parts of a glamorous kitchen, reminding you of the most crucial elements to think about when buying a new home or remodeling your current home’s kitchen.
Selecting Your Appliances and Where to Put Them
The appliances that you have are some of the most important pieces to your kitchen. Thinking about the style of each appliance, the finish of each appliance, and the places where they are positioned is key to designing your dream kitchen.
Firstly, you need to think about what appliances you want in your kitchen. There are the staple items, like a refrigerator and freezer, an oven and stove, and a microwave. However, there are many more after that! Do you want a dishwasher? What about a mixer? Blender? The small appliances are where you get a lot more wiggle room. It feels like a dishwasher is an essential these days, but there are plenty of things that are debatable and deserve a bit of contemplation.
Secondly, you need to think about the finishes. Do you want to go old school with all white? Do you want to opt for early 2000’s with all black? What about hopping on the current trend of stainless steel? All of these are solid options, and you may even choose to look for appliances in yet another color. One large perk of stainless steel is that they match just about any other color in your kitchen, meaning that they will fit in just fine with any other small appliances that you put in your kitchen.
Once you’ve figured out what you want and what color you want it to be, you need to think about the positioning of it within your kitchen. Typically, you want to think about the kitchen triangle. That is, you want the stove, fridge, and sink to form a triangle where you can easily turn around in circles to move from space to space while cooking. Beyond that though, you need to think about where to put the dishwasher, any countertop appliances, the trash can, and everything else.
There is a lot more to the appliances than just these few points, but this is a great beginning point. Once you have these few things figured out, you are well on your way to getting your dream kitchen in order!
Deciding What Type of Flooring You Want in Your Kitchen
If you are going for a full remodel of the kitchen or are in the market for a new house, thinking about the type of flooring you’d like to have is a very important and often overlooked part of the designing process. While carpet is an uncommon kitchen option, some people do opt for it. Other flooring types, like hardwood, laminate, synthetic wood, and linoleum tile all offer advantages and disadvantages, and considering what you want to have is an important step towards having the kitchen of your dreams.
Some of these options are cheaper and easier than others, and if you plan on installing the flooring yourself, a couple of the options are entirely out of the question. There are many different kinds of laminate flooring on the market these days that provide for a quality floor at a fraction of the price of other flooring materials. They can also be installed easily without the need to call a flooring professional!
Planning Your Kitchen’s Layout and Vibe
Planning your kitchen’s layout depends heavily on the function you intend on your kitchen having. Will your kitchen be strictly for cooking? Will you eat in it? Will you host events in it? All of these functions, and more, determine what your kitchen ought to look like. These days, the open kitchen concept is extremely popular, as it enables both social environments and effective cooking practices at the same time.
To some, an open concept is a must have kitchen element. Especially as living spaces have gotten smaller over the years, creating a room that serves multiple purposes is almost always a positive. A kitchen designed with an open concept allows the living areas, dining areas, and cooking spaces to work symbiotically and create synergy. Connecting all of these spaces with an open concept helps you to cook and do other things at the same time, like hosting, supervising children, and serving food.
Beyond just the open concept, there are other important factors to consider. Do you want an island, or regular counter spaces along the walls? Do you want the kitchen to take up a long wall, a corner, a full rectangle, or a full room? Do you want the appliances on the window side or the interior side? All of these layout components are crucial to consider when drawing up the layout of your dream kitchen.
Ensuring Plenty of Storage and Counter Space
Picking the appliances that you want and putting them in the layout that you want is the brunt of the work that goes into designing your dream kitchen but ensuring that you have plenty of storage and counter space is paramount. You can have all the best dishes, small appliances, and silverware in the world, but it doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have the necessary space to store them!
It is important to keep storage space at the front of your mind during every step of the kitchen designing process. There are some really creative ways to implement storage space naturally into your kitchen, and honestly the more space you can have, the better! Think about collapsing shelves, hidden drawers, and other methods that use space that would otherwise be left empty.
On a similar note, having plentiful counter space can really come in handy. This becomes especially clear over the holidays when you run out of places to put trays of food! Counter space serves so many purposes and having as much counter space as possible is usually a good goal to have when designing your dream kitchen. This is where an island can come in handy, too! A center island in your kitchen is the perfect combination of storage space and counter space, and it goes where there would typically be nothing but empty floor. Islands can be extremely stylish and can serve as a place to do food prepping, eat breakfast, do homework, and more. The storage under an island is also fantastic for storing countertop appliances that you use less frequently, like a pasta maker or a mixer.
Thank you for reading our blog, Catch the Wave. Hopefully this post helped you to think about some of the most important elements to consider when designing your dream kitchen. Again, the kitchen is one of the most important rooms in the house, and designing it with all of the right things in mind is important to ensure its peak appeal. property values fluctuate a lot, and we do not ever advise buying a home just for the sake of watching its value increase. If you are buying a home, you can look for one that already has all of the components that you want and need without having to even design it!
If you visit Myrtle Beach or any other place in South Carolina and fall in love, reach out to us for help. We at The Boyd Team are always here to help you figure out whether Myrtle Beach is your next home or not, and we are committed to helping you find the right property for your needs and dreams. Any question that you have about moving to the area and finding your dream home by the beach is our pleasure to answer. Feel free to send us an email at eddie@boydteam.com or text or call us at (843) 222-8566, and we will get back to you as soon as we can. Being true natives of the Grand Strand and Horry County and with over 25 years of experience in the local real estate market, whether buying or selling, we can help you make your dreams a reality.
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