It not only ties the home together, but it ties your loved ones together too. The kitchen acts as a meeting place and really is the center of the house. It is a communal space where food and conversation are shared, providing an idyllic space to catch up with family and friends.
Depending on the space available, the kitchen can have different shapes:
This type of kitchen is necessary if the space available is long and narrow, it consists of placing all the furniture and appliances it is made of on a single wall.
The linear kitchen
The linear kitchen is ideal if you are looking for maximum practicality. Practicality means first and foremost simplicity of design: choosing a linear kitchen means arranging all the furniture along one wall (or two walls facing each other, in a galley kitchen) and this solves many configuration problems.
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L” shaped kitchen
The “L” shaped kitchen is a solution for medium-sized rooms usually with two perpendicular walls free of windows or entrances.
In an L-shaped kitchen, applying the triangle rule provides maximum functionality and agility of space usage. The kitchen sink is placed on the longest part of the L, while the fridge and the oven, for example, are placed on the perpendicular wall.
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Parallel kitchen
The kitchen in parallel adapts to very large but narrow spaces with 2 access points (such as entrance door and French window) planning it you must be careful to arrange the furnishings correctly, we must always take into consideration the movements that the person will perform who will benefit from it, it is therefore useful to place all the equipment belonging to the same category near, e.g. oven with hob or sink with dishwasher.
The Parallel kitchen is ideal when there is sufficient place available, but if the place is small enough then this layout is going to cause space constraint issue. In a small kitchen space this layout might feel constricting, and movement will become haphazard.
U-shaped
The U-shaped kitchen is a solution adopted for large and long spaces, compared to the kitchen in parallel, it occupies 3 sides so you usually opt for it when there is a window in the kitchen under which you can place a base, you usually choose the one with the sink.
peninsula kitchen
The kitchen with peninsula is used for houses that have very large spaces or communicating with the living room, it is composed of a linear part, on which the appliances are usually positioned, and a shorter part used as a work surface and breakfast area.
kitchen island
This solution is also used for large spaces usually communicating with the living room with open space or with large openings with sliding doors. It consists of arranging all the appliances on a single wall and placing another piece of furniture in parallel as a work surface. In modern solutions, it is often used to place the hob or sink on the island and / or to connect the dining table to it. By choosing the option of the kitchen with an island, a minimum space of 90 cm between the bases must be considered, this serves as a space for maneuver and for opening the furniture doors. While if you also insert the sink and / or hob you will also have to take into account the water, electricity, and gas connection points, taking care to be very precise on their position. Keep in mind that these are ground connections so this solution is feasible when the floor needs to be redone too. If you instead opt for the solution with an island without hob, we could make it even more effective by placing a chandelier with suspensions placed at different heights on it.