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Anyone have Do's and Don'ts re: Kitchen layout. I know there are plenty of theories out there in terms of triangles etc. but from your own experience, what would you absolutely not do (or definitely do again) if designing a new kitchen.
e.g. Separating the location of the hob from the location of the oven - do you rue the day you moved them apart?
Lighting - are you sorry you did not take the offer of the recessed lighting in the pelmet or under the eye-level units?
Islands - are you sorry you made it too small, or too big
I'm used to having my micro on the counter, and all designs I have seen have the micro built in. I find the workspace at the door of my micro very useful in my current layout and fear I will be cursing the built-in option as less work friendly. Any experience of this?
Press or drawer? Many modern designs seem to go for the deep drawer systems and pull out larders instead of the standard presses. Anyone sorry they used too much of this fancy stuff or sorry they didn't ease the backache and go for pull-out everything?
Anyone have the handle of the fully integrated DW come off in their hand and wish they went for semi-integrated?
Wiring and plumbing the island just in case you decide to use them in future ... would you bother?
e.g. Separating the location of the hob from the location of the oven - do you rue the day you moved them apart?
Lighting - are you sorry you did not take the offer of the recessed lighting in the pelmet or under the eye-level units?
Islands - are you sorry you made it too small, or too big
I'm used to having my micro on the counter, and all designs I have seen have the micro built in. I find the workspace at the door of my micro very useful in my current layout and fear I will be cursing the built-in option as less work friendly. Any experience of this?
Press or drawer? Many modern designs seem to go for the deep drawer systems and pull out larders instead of the standard presses. Anyone sorry they used too much of this fancy stuff or sorry they didn't ease the backache and go for pull-out everything?
Anyone have the handle of the fully integrated DW come off in their hand and wish they went for semi-integrated?
Wiring and plumbing the island just in case you decide to use them in future ... would you bother?