When decorating a new house, many owners will feel entangled in the kitchen design scheme, and their hearts are full of questions: Are their kitchen layout, living habits and family cooking needs suitable for making an open kitchen? How can we make the kitchen look good and easy to use and achieve the desired effect? In fact, before starting construction, it is very necessary to make more preparations and learn more about relevant knowledge.

At this time, you might as well calm down and ask yourself the following seven key questions. From the frequency of daily cooking, the amount of oil fume produced, to the layout planning of the space and the preferences of family members, think clearly one by one. Based on this, make the kitchen decoration choice that best meets the actual situation of your home.

1. Understand the kitchen layout

First of all, we should be clear about several common kitchen layout patterns: U-shaped, I-shaped, L-shaped and straight-shaped. Then, according to the kitchen area of your home, choose the most suitable layout mode.

2. What are the functional areas of the kitchen

Generally, the kitchen can be divided into five areas: storage area, storage area, washing area, preparation area and cooking area. Planning these areas reasonably and making full use of the space will make them more comfortable to use.

3. How to design an irregularly shaped kitchen?

If space allows, consider putting the dining table into the kitchen! This can make effective use of space and make the moving lines smoother.

4. How to design the height of kitchen countertop?

A reasonably designed countertop height helps to avoid back pain when cooking in the future.

(Tip: The ideal height is not to bend down when washing vegetables!)

5. Will there be a “banging” noise when the cabinet door is turned on?

If the switch cabinet door is noisy, it is best to add damping or crash strips to the door panel so that the switch will be quieter.

6. Will it touch your head when opening the hanging cabinet door, which is inconvenient?

The hanging cabinet door can be installed at a higher position, and there is no cabinet door below, which is convenient to use and will not hit the head.

7. How to design the kitchen socket switch more reasonably?

Switch socket design

There should be no less than 10 switches and sockets in the kitchen, because there are many kitchen appliances, and there is no harm in having more sockets.

Installation height recommendations for kitchen outlets:

Range hood socket: usually about 2100 mm above the ground, roughly in the middle of the range hood.

Microwave oven and disinfection cabinet sockets: generally about 2000 mm from the ground. After plugging in, they are usually not unplugged often, so they can be installed more beautifully.

Sockets for rice cookers, small ovens, juicers, electric kettles, induction cookers, electric baking pans and other electrical appliances: Generally, a five-hole socket with ground wire is selected, which is about 1200 mm above the ground.

Oven socket: Generally about 500 mm from the ground, it can be unplugged when not in use to avoid electromagnetic radiation.

Refrigerator Socket: About 500 mm from the floor, very convenient when power is needed to be cut off.

Socket of gas stove with induction cooker: about 500 mm from the ground, which can be easily cut off when going far away.

Is open kitchen decoration good or not?

1. Cooking fume is a big problem.

2. The kitchen is usually messy. After it is made open, the perspective of the whole home may look more messy, affecting the mood of the occupants.

If you feel that your home can solve the above problems well, that’s great. You can choose to decorate the open kitchen; Otherwise, it is safer to honestly decorate the traditional closed kitchen.