It’s easy to imagine a picture-perfect kitchen with its spacious benchtops, integrated appliances, and beautiful backsplashes. But the aesthetics alone are not enough – the room also needs to have a cohesive feel, a functional flow, and the finishing touches that tie it all together.
At Rowe & Wood Kitchens Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, our team of kitchen designers know what it takes to create a dream kitchen, and we wanted to share four key elements that all well-designed kitchens share.
- A convenient kitchen layout
The right layout leads to a more enjoyable kitchen experience. When moving around your kitchen, you want it to feel effortless and natural. You want to reach for the right drawers, fall into the flow of cooking, and find clean-up a breeze.
Your Tauranga kitchen designer will ask about your household and habits to help lay out a kitchen that will fit you like a glove. This includes big things like where to put the oven in relation to the benchtop, but it also includes little things that can make or break your kitchen experience, like putting the rubbish bin near the sink. A well laid out kitchen will let you move between cooking, serving, and cleaning with ease.
- Sufficient storage
The last thing you want is your kitchen gadgets spilling out of the cabinets and taking up valuable real estate on your benchtop. Having enough storage is an essential part of a functional kitchen, but precisely what that means varies from one household to the next.
Our kitchen designers in Tauranga are masters at using a combination of techniques to make sure you have enough storage space for all your small-scale appliances, crockery, and pantry staples. From quality cabinetry to island drawers to open shelves, our methods will suit your style, free up your benchtop, and give you plenty of space for all your kitchenware.
- Superior lighting
Lighting in the kitchen is more important than any other room in the house. The lights you choose affect more than just aesthetics; with the sharp knives and raw ingredients, kitchen lighting is also a matter of health and safety.
First, you want to maximise natural light coming into your designer kitchen, then you want to use the best possible artificial lighting for a well-lit kitchen any time of day. From recessed light to task lighting, lanterns to pendants, your kitchen designer will balance statement pieces with effective illumination to ensure your kitchen is bright and beautiful.
- Attention to detail
Hidden ventilation. Easy-to-access power points. Quality handles on your cabinetry. Modern tapware. It’s the attention to small details that transforms your kitchen from an ordinary room into the hub of your home. The work is not done with the big-ticket items: a well-designed kitchen will put equal emphasis on getting these finishing touches just right.
Design the kitchen of your dreams with RW Kitchens
Is it time to turn those kitchen dreams into reality? If so, get in touch with the kitchen design specialists at Rowe & Wood Kitchens Tauranga today.