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4 Tips for Redesigning Your Kitchen

If you spend a lot of time cooking, then you know how important the design and cleanliness of your kitchen is. After you get past a certain point of frustration, you may decide that a kitchen redesign is in order. But then, it’s time to follow some advice about what practical steps would be to get to the goal that you want.

There are four easy pieces of advice that you can start with. First of all, begin with appropriate flooring. After that, consider your project from an interior design perspective. Since your kitchen is all about cooking, make sure that your design works around the appliances you have or that you want. And finally, for whatever kind of redesign that you do, make sure that it’s easy to clean.

Start With the Floor

When it comes time to fix your kitchen up, the most critical thing for you to do is make sure that you have the right kind of kitchen flooring. Your kitchen takes a beating concerning traffic, and then you have to deal with heat, grease, and everything else that comes with working in the kitchen all the time. If you get flooring that can’t weather this kind of abuse, you’ll have to start from ground zero regularly as soon as it starts showing signs of wear.

Consider an Interior Design Perspective

If you’re going to redesign your kitchen, why not look at it from an interior design perspective? Interior design isn’t just for living rooms, dining rooms, or other more open places. Interior design is also for kitchen concepts, especially as it has to deal with the intersection between aesthetics and practicality. For example, it’s practical to minimize the decoration and ornaments in kitchens so they don’t get in the way of cooking, so instead some people will add a mural wallpaper to their breakfast nook to create some vibrancy. Don’t immediately exclude the idea of interior design from your kitchen brainstorming simply because you figure that interior design processes don’t fit in a cooking area. They do!

Work Around Your Appliances

Make sure that whatever design you intend on implementing, it works with the appliances that you have in your kitchen. Your kitchen stove is going to be the centerpiece of this area. Make sure that whatever design elements want to add or improve incorporates this central appliance into your concept. Beyond this, make sure you have enough counter space for all of the gadgets that you use because running out of area is a cook’s worst nightmare.

Make It Easy To Clean

Finally, whatever you do, make sure that your redesign means that your kitchen is easy to clean. Some kinds of surfaces can look beautiful, but if it takes too much time, effort, or expense to clean, then you don’t want it anywhere near your kitchen. You want your surfaces to wipe clear, clean, and fast, and have this theme throughout your whole space.

Sam Roberts