Planning your new kitchen
, by Mark Swan, 3 min reading time
Designing a new kitchen and selecting your appliances can be a daunting task. Here are some things to consider that may help you plan for success.
Kitchen Planning and Laundry Appliance Buying Guide
Designing your layout and choosing the right appliances can be confusing. Our Kitchen Planning and appliance buying guide is here to help.
Kitchen planning comes down to the details, one of the best ways to make sure your new kitchen is beautiful and functional is to choose your appliances carefully.
Here we share some tips for choosing the right kitchen or laundry appliances.
The kitchen is the heart of the home, so it's important to get the right appliances.
The key considerations when is comes to Kitchen Planning are;
- Cooking - how much space you dedicate and types of food you cook
- Space - Storage requirements and how to best use the available space
- Cleaning - Clean lines allow for easy cleaning, consider coved splash backs as there are no joins.
However these areas need careful consideration.
They also need to be practical and look stylish at the same time.
Along with our kitchen Planning and appliance buying guide, we run regular Kitchen Design Seminars.
These are free to attend and also give some valuable insight into how to plan for a great result.
We partner with Exclusive Kitchens for these https://www.exclusivkitchens.com.au/
You can book into a seminar at our events page https://newtonshomeappliances.com.au/pages/cooking-demonstrations
A great kitchen needs balance between form and function.
Furthermore, choosing the best appliances will go a long way to ensuring you get the most out of your space.
While small kitchen appliances help add personality and flair to your space.
Undeniably the most important appliances to consider are your major appliances.
We hope our appliance buying guide will help you choose the right ones for your kitchen planning.
Cooking
The cooking area is important, so take time to consider your family’s needs.
- Planning on more children
- Animals entering the area to consider
- Placement of sink and fridge in relation to prep zone
- Catering for larger gatherings
- How many ovens to get
- Built in or freestanding
- Cooktop size
- Getting rid of the odours
One important decision is whether to have your cooktop and oven located together or separately.
Some love the visual appeal and homely feeling of a big freestanding cooker and choose to make a feature of it with bold design elements and even colour.
Many prefer the sleek clean lines a wall installation can offer.
If you like your oven at wall height, for ergonomic reasons.
Therefor consider positioning the wall oven so that you can easily reach in and out of it.
Generally not at a height where you are reaching up.
If you are considering two ovens in a vertical stack, you should be trying to line up the middle of the top oven with your shoulder height.
Unquestionably the efficient use of space when Kitchen Planning, can provide functionality and style.
You can achieve fantastic use of space by considering a horizontal bank of ovens.
It allows for plenty of storage options.
Why not consider banks of draws below a horizontal bank of ovens.
In terms of functionality, the options for choosing an oven are almost endless.
Steam, convection, microwave, grill, a combination of some or all.
Most of us don’t have the space for everything, which is where a compact oven helps.
As seen above, it allows for a normal oven, steam oven, microwave or even a coffee machine.
Moreover, consider using the space below for storage.
A bank of seamless handle free draws will not effect the look but will provide significantly more storage space.
Multi purpose appliances are great for family life.
Allowing you to do everything from sterilizing a baby’s bottle in the steam oven while teaching the older ones to defrost, reheat and crisp up their own dinner in one appliance.
In fact, letting them perform that simple task could help turn them into a Rock Star in the kitchen.
Our kitchen planning and appliance buying guide is here to help you.
If reading our appliance buying guide is not your thing, pop in and have a chat to one of our experienced staff.
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