Finding a home that suits all of your needs is a challenge sometimes, you can find a place that appeals to everyone but is just too small, or somewhere in a great location that could use a little bit of work. But wherever your home is, and no matter how long you have owned the place, your family is constantly growing and adapting, so why should your rooms in the house not do so too. In this article, we will be looking into how best to design a family-friendly kitchen.
Doing a General Kitchen Remodel
The most obvious way to make your kitchen family-friendly and to your liking is simply to do a kitchen remodel. This way you have complete control over how the space will look and what will be incorporated in the designs. If you have rented the house and want to change the look of the kitchen, consider talking with your property management company. By doing a kitchen remodel, you can change the layout to fit your needs so that it will grow with you and your family, maybe even insert a few counters at a lower height so that children can join you in the kitchen while you work when they are younger.
Open Plan
Having an open plan kitchen/living area is rather desirable now because it means that even when cooking you can see and interact with everyone who is in the living area, whether they are watching TV or exercising on the gym equipment while you cook, and still be able to see and hear exactly what is going on.
Storage and Organisation
Storage is probably one of the most sought-after aspects when designing your home, as there must be space for all of your belongings to fit away neatly. When you have multiple people living in one house, rooms have many different uses, and clutter builds up even quicker, so having enough cupboards or shelves in the kitchen is imperative for a family-friendly kitchen.
Similarly, most family’s desire to become more organized, hoping that it will help to avoid disaster, maybe have a calendar hanging on the wall in the kitchen where everyone will have access to it and see it daily. This way it will avoid conflicting engagements, and everyone will be aware of what is going on from one day to the next.
Childproofing
With young children, it is vital that everything is safe for them in a kitchen. It isn’t as important as they grow up, but when a child is beginning to explore, they won’t understand which cupboards they aren’t supposed to look in, or that they shouldn’t be emptying everything out. So, think about the different ways that you can childproof your kitchen when trying to design it so that it is more family-friendly.
Easy to Clean
Family life is messy, it’s a well-known fact that little fingers can leave marks around the home be they sticky or covered in paint. So, to combat this, it is a wise idea to look into having all of the kitchen cabinets and counters made from something that will be easy to clean.
It may be a good idea to think of having laminate flooring as well, given how it is a cheaper alternative and very easy to wipe clean after having something spilled on it. Also look into cabinets that don’t have grooves in them, as it is less difficult to clean up accidental spills when you aren’t trying to wipe them out of the detailing.
Conclusion
There are many different ways to design a family-friendly kitchen, the ideas listed above are only the start. Make sure that you know what you want and the budget that you have available before you begin planning the materials, etc. that you would like to use, or you could potentially be disappointed further down the line.