4 Aspects Of A Carefully Planned Kitchen

In traditional Indian homes, a kitchen was the only place one couldn’t enter without bathing. It goes to show how revered the cooking space was for the family and some kitchens even had prayer rooms inside or closeby to ensure that no one wandered around that space in an unclean appearance. Kitchen concepts in India however, have undergone a huge change from cooking on the floor to modern hobs on platforms. And this is true not just in large cosmopolitan cities, but also in smaller towns and villages. Shami Goregaoker, Design Director, GA Design elaborates four new aspects which can be added to the design of modern kitchen in order to make them more functional as well as aesthetically pleasing.

A kitchen is no longer a gender-specific area where the lady of the house is struggling in the heat to prepare a delicious meal for her family. Not a neglected space in the house anymore, in fact, a kitchen is a place of gratification and pride. Today’s modern society allows gender specific guidelines to be blurred and therefore in some homes, the kitchen is where families spend their best moments, from cooking together to enjoying their morning breakfast.

A kitchen is an integral part of the house and therefore also of the house design. Whether it is a kitchen in a large villa or a compact apartment, kitchen design goes a long way in reflecting the user’s style of living. Every user wants their kitchen to be a comfortable space where they can spend their productive time effortlessly. They want their kitchen to look neat, clean and stylish. It should accommodate everything from expensive crockery and a washing machine to massive space for dead storage of the entire house! And this can be made possible with wise planning and careful designing. A kitchen design comprises of a few important aspects:

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