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For a woman if cuisine is the door to a man’s heart, kitchen is where you have that door. Kitchen is no more the rustic
workplace where women and housewives panted for several hours while they prepared meals.
Kitchen used to be a segregated
room, which now is an integral part of home with almost no physical separation. It is much brighter, wider and smarter than
ever before and a place where members of the family would let their creative juices. So, welcome to the exciting world of
decorated new age kitchen.
Decorating Your Kitchen to Your Taste
Kitchen is where you want to decorate most after
your living room. Sitting in your living room you can see the kitchen, perhaps this could be another reason for decorating
it, if you forget the duration you spend there.
Carefully decorated kitchen blends with the ambience of the home. Two things help give this feel to kitchen: the no-wall connection
with the living room and the décor of it. If yours is a constructed home, choose a brighter color (distemper) for kitchen;
for a brighter kitchen lightens up the mood and appears wide.
Get the cabinets done up in plywood in its original splendor
above dado but with softer look. Same pattern goes well on the lower row below the platform. Make sure you don’t leave
corners uncabineted from both aesthetic and hygiene point of view. Mind you, the bottom line of upper cabinets must be well
above your full standing height.
Standard height for dado is 2˝’ above the platform, but there is no reason why
it should be so. Take it as high as to touch the bottom of upper cabinets. This avoids the unpleasant strip of blank space
between them. Next, the dado must match both upper and lower cabinets in décor. If you chose plywood for cabinets, stainless
steel in mat finish would look great. While mat finish is pleasant on eyes, steel good for hygiene. Other option is ceramic
tiles.
Plan crockery showcase near dining table to avoid the odd look if made in glass panes. This also adds to convenience
and doesn’t clutter the main kitchen area.
You must have the chimney concealed within the cabinet if the cooking
spot is along a wall. A hanging chimney goes well too, provided it is encased. The best places for faucet and sink are close
to the stove and along the exterior wall.
If the sink is on your left, have the fridge and oven on the right, purely
for convenience sake. It gives a neat look without cluttering the space.
Decorating kitchen is an endless saga. And
immediately you are on a mission to maintain it.
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