Fitted Kitchen Units
- Fitted Kitchen Units
Fitted Kitchen Units For Integrated Kitchen Design
Kitchen is part of the house which intended for preparing food and cooking, it is usually a room or part of a room that dedicated to the special purpose. Modern kitchen usually consist of stove, sink and kitchen cabinet, some kitchen also include refrigerator and microwave oven.
Some modern kitchen use custom design for the equipment inside the kitchen in order to create a compact kitchen. The fitted kitchen units are made based on the size of the kitchen and include any intended equipment for the kitchen. The more functional kitchen can be used for dining as well.
For modern houses, kitchen design is part of the integrated design of the house. Kitchen considered part of the central activity in modern house. Cooking food and dining activities are commonly take place in the kitchen for modern families. Cooking equipments and seating are available in the modern kitchen which usually has compact design with fitted kitchen units for optimum functionality of the equipment as well as occupying available space of the room.
Optimized function of the kitchen can be obtained by using integrated design to create custom made fitted kitchen units to optimize the space and the functionality of the whole equipment brought into the kitchen. Kitchen design become part of the design and architecture discipline since the room has major function as well as having special need on the design and involved equipment for conducting the special activities in the kitchen.
The fitted kitchen units have several basic design based on the size and the shape of the room. The working area in the kitchen becomes the main concern in designing kitchen lay out. One way galley put all of the kitchen equipment in one side of the wall.
This design can be a good solution for small space with minimalist equipment put into the kitchen. One side of the room is occupied as kitchen and the other side of the room can provide more space for other activities like dining site, working or other activities.
The larger room with more equipments included in the kitchen can use different lay out of the units. Fitted kitchen units with L or U shape can be option for larger space to occupy. Two way galleys also can be the alternative to design the kitchen setup. L shaped and two way galleys basically occupy two rows of cabinet for the working space. Two way galleys have two cabinets on the opposite walls while L shaped setup occupied two adjacent walls.
U shaped design setting has three sides of walls for setting up the working area. While blocked kitchen setup has one area for working space in the middle of the room and the cooking activities no longer facing the wall but centered in the blocked area of kitchen equipment in the middle of the room.
