Fabulous New Kitchen Designs for the Modern Day Family

Over the last two decades we have seen a major change in kitchen styles and designs. Kitchen designers and manufacturers are working in close partnership to create fabulous kitchens with the modern day family in mind. These new style kitchens are now well sort after by many homeowners, making kitchen renovations and kitchen remodelling the most popular home improvement project of all time.

Today’s kitchen designs are created to give a cosy, homely feel and provide a multi-functional room, where the entire family can gather to partake in many different activities, whether sharing food preparation tasks, dining, reviewing daily news, relaxing or socialising.

The ideas and functions of these new kitchen designs is to utilise the whole area of the original kitchen more effectively to gain the most from this room. They are largely constructed to create more space and do so by producing a layout that is more sleek and streamline. One clever method often seen is the encasing of larger appliances within cabinets exteriors and concealing them behind kitchen cabinet doors. This immediately gives the impression of having lots more storage space whilst giving the kitchen a neat and stylish finish and appearance.

Adequate and sufficient storage space can be found in the form of low level cabinets, large drawers, wall units, larders and central island with storage underneath. Being able to put the majority of utensils, jars, pots and pans out of view presents a kitchen that is neat and ‘clutter-free’. Worktops are therefore clear and available for the purpose of preparing food or displaying much smaller, useful appliances such as a coffee machine, decorative ornaments like a cookbook stand or a vase of flowers. Similarly, hi-fi’s and/or ipods as well as TV’s (mounted on a wall) can often now found on displayed in this area as family members choose to spend more quality time in this room.

Creative use of natural materials like glass, solid wood, stone, granite, and other manmade materials make this room easy to clean and maintain. This is exactly what is required for a room which is constantly in use. Having new lighting will contribute to the whole social experience. Create an abundance of light during food preparation and dining with family, and opt for softer lighting to change the mood when relaxing and enjoying quiet time. All of these subtle finishing touches can make the new kitchen design more dynamic and beautiful, smooth to the touch and aesthetically delightful.

Whatever your choice in kitchen design, whether you opt for a complete kitchen renovation or a kitchen makeover, today’s kitchen designers and manufacturers understand what is required to help you achieve the kitchen of your dream.

What Your Kitchen Furniture Needs

Are you planning to get new furniture units for your kitchen, or plan to keep the old ones? Either way, you have to ensure that their presence is safe for you and for the people in your home especially the children. Even the mere replacement of kitchen cupboard doors should have safety precautions.

Accidents often occur because owners do not really know the basic things that they should consider when getting new or keeping old kitchen furniture units. To make sure that you are doing the right thing, consider the following things:


1. Rubber protectors

If your furniture unit has sharp angles, consider using rubber protectors. They are those which you see in hardware shops and other home and decorating stores in Lshape and made of rubber. They are to be attached on the corners of the furniture so anyone that could bump into it would not get hurt.

When your furniture units are next to delicate structures, for example, wooden floors, rubber protectors can also be used. There are those which are made just to stick on your furniture so that the whole structure of the units would not collide with the structure next to it.

2. Locks

Locks are very helpful when you want to keep your kitchen goods secure. However, we often miss them. There are locks which are very easy to break into. There are also locks with very weak keys, and they tend to break if we do not use them carefully.

Consider strong and durable locks for your kitchen. These are not necessarily to protect your goods for burglars because they are not that attractive to them, but from kids who would try to use tools just to open them.

3. Fasteners

Whether you are located near a fault line or in a very peaceful community, furniture fasteners are needed to make sure that your furniture units, such as tall and hanging cabinets do not fall onto someone. Falling may be resulted by earthquake, a simple movement of things in the area, or when even a small force is exerted to make it happen.

Kids surely are very attracted to tall cabinets since they can climb onto those. Your furniture should be attached strongly to the wall when it happens. These fasteners are available in hardware stores and should be strongly installed on the wall. Thus, you may need a professional to help you with it.