Which is the form of your kitchen?
The objective is to limit displacements between the poles of activities. One distinguishes three from them:
- Water (with the sink and dishes wash it),
- Cold (refrigerating and freezer),
- The heat (furnaces, ).
In a square kitchen, one tries to put these three elements in triangle. The more it is reduced, the more the kitchen is functional.
In a broad rectangular kitchen of at least 1, one will be able to carry out an implantation in L, it will remain 1, of passage, you will be able to circulate and open the wall cupboards.
In a broad rectangular kitchen of at least 2, broad there will be the possibility of creating implantation out of U, it will remain again the 1, of passage to circulate.
The Council: whatever the configuration of the part, the “heat” and the “cold” do not make good household. For the durability of the aircraft, one avoids placing side by side the refrigerator and the cooker, the furnace and the freezer.
Some coasts to imagine your future kitchen
The low pieces of furniture make all 60 cm of depth. Electric household appliances a little less, which makes it possible to embed it. These low pieces of furniture make 70 to 75 cm in height, with the plinth and the thickness of work surface (3 to 5 cm) you will reach 85 cm in height (the standard height) or a little more (up to 90 cm) if you all are large in the family and do not want to make you badly with the kidneys.
The high pieces of furniture make between 28 and 32 cm of depth. 32 cm make it possible to arrange the large dishes easily. In height they make 35 cm (to put at the top of a hood, a refrigerator, etc), 70 cm in the standard face or 90 cm for the high pieces of furniture.
In width, according to the marks, the low and high pieces of furniture are forwarded in 30,40,50,60,80, broad. With all these coasts, corner cabinets, and “spinners”, one does really what one wants.
The measure 60 cm of depth or 65, which is a luxury for great kitchens. Lengthwise, on the other hand, the dimensions are much standardized. The ideal is to avoid the connections. When that is impossible, better is worth to locate those under the (the connection is seen only over the remaining width) or under the sink.
The sinks go from the simple tank to a tank + bend (60 cm broad) to the sink a vat and half (96 broad approximately) and finally, the twin-bin + bend for 120 cm and great comfort! Think that there exist sinks of angle (much more expensive) and that in an angle you can also put the what is very pleasant. When you choose your sink, seek the deepest and vast tanks (the cleaning of the large dishes and grid of furnace will be simplified by it) and remember that the composite materials or the enamel mark less than stainless where the least water trace is seen.
Caution! It is pleasant, the sink under the window, but if it is too low, the tap will not pass… or the window will not open any more… Unless choosing a folding tap.
Coatings of frontings
- won't a color very present (enamelled red, #515728 electric, , black, etc) weary you very quickly?
- does the coating of fronting mark much (to pose your hand on fronting and see whether it leaves traces),
- will the model continue to be marketed if ever you wish to add an element later?
The glazed high pieces of furniture increase space, frontings clear and enamelled too. The mixing of pieces of furniture is tendency. Elements of wood with frontings metal, wood lights and dark, all is allowed the condition of choosing in the same manufacturer because each one has its coasts, and even if they are very close, they are not exactly similar in height or depth.
The
The tiled costs more than a standard laminated plan if you make it tile but at a similar price if you it done yourself. He marries the forms , avoids the connections. The tiling must support the high temperatures and be posed on a plan out of wood discussed to prevent that it warps with moisture.
The laminated : very resistant, with an edge finished (flare or right if you must carry out angles) there exists in several thicknesses. Thinnest (2,8 cm) is a little fragile, the second (3,5 cm) is standard, the third (approximately 5cm) is tendency. It stresses a very contemporary kitchen well.
Plans out of sawn timber: in three thicknesses they also, they have this beauty of the naturalness, but before making use of it they should be watered market product by the manufacturer to waterproof them.
Plans out of composite materials: if your budget allows it, you can discover at your of very beautiful materials which could even be carved to integrate a sink into the forms which will be appropriate to you.
Handles
The handles are to be chosen with understanding if you made a kitchen in angle. Indeed, their big length or depth can prevent the integral opening of a gate (Note of the author: if I had been able to read this consulting before that does not arrive to me…).
Visible feet, a plinth or drawers?
Feet of aluminum under the low pieces of furniture release the ground and increase the kitchen. Only minor problems: the lava dishes descends him almost to the ground and one can see it.
A plinth finishes the kitchen well but with successive cleanings, the laminate can be taken off. It is not very serious, it is then enough to change it.
Drawers: if you lack place, certain benefit from this space to create drawers. They is astute, but as for a plinth, the blows of brushes and the moisture of the floorcloths can damage their coatings.
Electric household appliances
, it preserves its own fronting, integrable, it will be covered fronting of the kitchen. It is prettier, but a little expensive. Take the trouble of reading the labels: consumption of water or electricity, many decibels, coasts (example: is the microwave too deep to place in my high pieces of furniture?), as many details which must make the difference like quality and warranty period provided by the salesman.
The small ones more
Some lamps under the pieces of furniture are as practical as esthetic, think of the rods on the credence to hang the ustensils most employed, find in large surfaces of the sliding racks for your wall cupboards, it is much more convenient than the fixed ones where it is necessary all to remove to go to seek the dish or tin posed at the bottom.