Monday, 16 May 2016

Kitchen – The best room in the house

The kitchen is one of the most important rooms in the house. This is the place where you can make delicious delicacies and where the entire family gathers. A place that gets busy early in the morning, tiffin’s are packed, breakfast is served and much more. Your kitchen can be stylish as well as luxurious, filled to the brim with the latest technology and comfortable furniture. Not to mention the fact that a great kitchen will make the value of your home go through the roof. If you don’t love your kitchen right now, then with a few good changes, there’s no reason why  you can’t. Here are some of the best ideas for improving your home kitchen.
Indulge in luxury appliances
New appliances make a huge difference. Splurge in some new appliances to give your kitchen that new look. The kitchen is home to some big splurges like a large industrial stove. You may also invest in some modern high tech appliances such as a smart fridge or a self-cleaning oven.
Add in wood
Make your kitchen design with enhancements of wood. Wooden cabinets or a wooden island give the kitchen a posh and sophisticated look.
Make it white
Unify everything with white paint. Ditch laminate countertops for affordable oak. Add a beautiful silver-plated tray on a counter that strikes a luxe note and serves as a spot for holding recipes. Making the kitchen backdrop white gives the kitchen a fresh and crisp, clean look.
Add creative lighting
Lighting in a kitchen is extremely important as good light is essential when working at the kitchen. Add different lamps and lights as per the theme of the kitchen and make it a gorgeous well-lit space. Give your kitchen,living-room elegance with a small chandelier or a wall with good lighting.Lighting is important not just for aesthetics but also for ambiance variety and safety of cooking. Consider choosing recessed ambient lights, pendant lighting, and under cabinet lighting for countertop luminance as well.

Be Bold with Colour
Take cues from the ‘50s such as Pyrex bowls and printed tablecloths. Adding pops of colour in the kitchen gives the kitchen a positive and welcoming vibe. Your kitchen colours don’t have to carry the same colour scheme as the rest of your home. With that said there should still be continuity in the main theme of colours that run through your home.
Vary textures
Give instant visual interest to your kitchen by mixing and matching multiple materials and textures. For example adding cream colour cabinets to lighten the space in contrast to a steel stove with an island made of wood. Modern kitchens are all about the textures!
Open shelving
Create a sense of space with open wall shelves. Kitchen designs with simple white planks and custom brackets are effortlessly sophisticated.
Mix up your furniture choices
Windsor stools and a red-patterned rug may be more expected in the living room but add a fun surprise in the kitchen. Kitchen designs are best when mixed and matched with fun elements within a sophisticated background.
Make it cozy

A well-placed window seat looking out to a gorgeous yard will give the kitchen a warm and cozy effect. Add handmade quilts, rugs, and pillows and bursts of colour to an all-white kitchen. Modular kitchens in Bangalore are the perfect option for everyone! 

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Evaluating your kitchen needs

The kitchen of your dreams is not meant to suit your best friend, your neighbours or anyone else who does not live with you. Taking advice is key while building a new modular kitchen. However the end result must be of a kitchen that best suits you and your personality. Hiring a professional to asses you with your needs is a must. A professional will have clear opinions and will ask you ample questions to deliver to your needs.
Few questions that need to be answered before you start designing and building a kitchen from scratch includes:     
·        How many people live in your household? What are their ages and do any of them have any special physical needs?
·        Do you have any personal interests that need to be accommodated in the kitchen area such as serious wine storage, laundry, window gardening, etc.?
·        Would you like a cooking space meant for two people at a time and do you have to watch over children while cooking?
·        What is your budget?
·         What's on your must-have list, and what's on your nice-to-have list?
With all these questions answered one can go ahead into the complete design of a kitchen. Have fun thinking things through, take opinions from family members as well, as they may remember significant aspects that you might not recall at the time.
To get the kitchen that really fits and pleases you a few pointers must be considered. Take a note of these suggestions for starters:

·        Be a savvy spender – Ask the hired professional about the kitchen that you can afford as per your pre-determined budget. Your starting wish should be kitchen that doesn’t break the bank. Modular kitchen designs come in a varied range of rates, choose one that best caters to your budget.
·        Nail the essentials down first – if you do not plan to move anywhere in the next few years you must purchase the best products your budget can afford. If you need to choose it is better to spend your money on the top end design services instead of upgraded materials. Once you have made an investment in a design that gets the floor plan and essential elements right, you may always upgrade to luxurious surfacing materials in the future. For example, make sure the kitchen island with outlets is in the right place now. You can change that laminate countertop to a different material later, as you can afford it. It is a much costlier challenge to relocate the island and change the wiring later than it is to merely resurface.


·        Look at how you really live - The best kitchen is a functional kitchen. Make sure yours fits how you really live. If you and your partner love to cook and entertain, don't settle for one oven, one sink, and no place to sit. If your home doesn’t involve elaborate cooking, don't bother with two ovens and a six-burner restaurant stove. If your kids are at the do-it-yourself age, go for a roomy, top-of-the-line microwave installed near the fridge. If you come home from work late but still like to cook seriously, you may want to have a microwave installed near the stove for quick defrosting before cooking.


Sunday, 1 May 2016

The different Sizes and Shapes of Kitchens!

The kitchen is the heart of the home. It’s where you feel comfortable, where the family gathers, where late night talks, homework sessions and casual celebrations happen naturally. A room used by every member of the house, It is certainly a room in the house where several memories are made. Whether it’s remodelling or buying a completely new modular kitchen. Your dream kitchen might not be as hard to attain as you imagine. You want your kitchen to be appealing as well completely practical and functional. But where do you begin? This article will aid you to start with the kitchen remodelling or designing process. The two significant factors that go into modular kitchens designing are kitchen size and the kitchen shape. Once these two have been decided only then can one move ahead with the complete kitchen design.

Kitchen size
You may have a large luxury kitchen in your mind however you need to choose a kitchen according to the aesthetics of the kind of space you have. If you have a small space for kitchen you may try to steal some space from an adjoining pantry or storage room. You may also enlarge the room visually by simply adding a large window or install a skylight, break through an interior wall into an adjacent dining or family room. Most homes have midsize kitchen which can function perfectly well with a modest amount of intelligent improvements.When decorating, keep colours light and patterns simple to maximize visual spaciousness and strive for maximum length and unbroken runs of workspace. A vast amount of houses are starting to have large kitchens as they are now not only a space for cooking but also various other things and gatherings. More space will allow the homeowner to build more work surfaces and also more kinds of them. Large kitchens have ample space for amenities such as strategically placed islands, more than one wall, oven and sink. A big kitchen also allows more latitude in decoration and design, including dark cabinets and wall colours, dramatic decorative effects, and sharply contrasting colours and patterns, so you can have it your way.
Kitchen shape

The three popular kinds of shapes of kitchens are U-Shape, L-Shape and G-Shape. The U-Shape kitchen has the stove, fridge, and sink each on a different wall and offers a compact space. This shape works best in a kitchen that is square. The L-Shape kitchen uses two sides of a kitchen. It will generally have the fridge on one end of the link, the sink towards the centre of the same side and the stove perpendicular on the shot leg of the “L”. Since the L-Shaped kitchen design uses only two walls, the area allows a more open layout. This setup is well suited to a large room where the kitchen shares space with the family room. The G-Shape kitchen shape features one appliance on each of two walls and the third appliance on a peninsula that separates the work area from an adjoining breakfast area or family room.