Friday, November 27, 2009

Designing A Traditional Kitchens Yourself

By Matthew Kerridge

A kitchen is usually the heart of a home; it is the place where sustenance for the whole family is prepared thrice a day, where children usually gather round to complete their homework, where friends gather to take a coffee break. Because of these and so many other reasons it is crucial you spend at least some special consideration in transforming your kitchen into the traditional kitchen with the same sensational feel it used to give in your childhood home.

The interest you take in designing your kitchen may just as well change your whole family; a barren, clinically clean and imposing kitchen is used only when necessary while a welcoming, rugged and comfortable becomes the center of activities in a home. Children completing their homework or elders just hanging around for a cup of coffee are activities that make all the difference in keeping the family in a close knit unit.

The first thing you should consider when remodeling your kitchen should be the layout. The way you move in your kitchen as well as the amount of movement you need to get to things in a kitchen will define the way you feel about the kitchen. Now the only person who can best design the most functional layout of the kitchen is you yourself.

Who but you can know your movements and behaviors in the kitchen to design the best layout conforming to you?

A traditional kitchen does not mean a complete walk-away from all the modern appliances and their advantages; in fact with just a little creativity you can incorporate any modern appliance into your traditional kitchen. Well designed appliances can very easily be concealed behind cup-board doors and configured to mold the modern technology into your traditional kitchens theme.

A traditional kitchen pays tribute to the tradition of preparing a family meal, allowing the various family traditions to be celebrated and passed on. You can design you kitchen with an island in the centre to prepare food or a large space where more than one person can work jointly, making even the preparation of the food an excuse for the family to mingle. Lighting too is an important feature of any traditional kitchen; you would want some sunlight filtering in your traditional kitchens as well as the artificial lighting. Sunlight is an important element in a traditional kitchen; it gives the kitchen with the warmth and tenderness your family so richly deserves.

Lighting is an important feature that you should consider in your design of a traditional kitchen, try to incorporate natural lighting in your kitchen, make sure that lighting is not too intense but rather backlit. Sunlight gives a traditional kitchen a new warmth and texture but the importance of artificial lighting for nighttime is also not under minable.

Lighting is of the utmost importance in a traditional kitchen, you can consider backlit sunlight inlets along with the artificial lightings. Sunlight gives the traditional kitchen the warmth as well as compliments with its overall atmosphere to give you the feeling of being a tree, serene and in luxury, in complete harmony with nature and with roots deep within its home ground.

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