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When designing a kitchen as a first step you need to know the family size, number of inhabitants of the house, number of right or left handed, height of the housewife, and desired working height. As for the orientation of the kitchen, will preferably northeast or northwest, and have a window to generate a good natural lighting and ventilation. Aim to have direct access to the yard, you can also have a direct connection to the street to use as a secondary entrance or service.

The kitchen is a workplace but also a place to stay for many hours by the housewife and often a key point of the family reunion. The design must take into account ways to save, work space and fluid enough to adapt the height of the countertop to match the users.

The necessary surface for a minimum kitchen is 5 to 6 m2, or about 8 m2 if this integrated with a space to eat. To organize and facilitate the process of working in the kitchen we take into account the process or sequence of work that can vary but is universal in every kitchen that is saved (food / cooler) + support (counter or counter) + preparation (food processing) + wash (sink / sink) + cooking (kitchen) + support and ready to serve.

This sequence of work can develop in straight form if the design is linear or alternated in which case the ideal is to form in virtual triangle in the path of preparation process, as is the case of kitchens designed in U, in L or a design faced.

The space of movement for work must be 1, 20 m minimum to operate household appliances. The depth of the countertop baby be 60 cm, supported on a plinth of a height of between 1 July to 10 cm. The minimum width of a kitchen is 2.40 m. must take into account that the spaces of saved as shelves or cupboards should not exceed 35 cm depth, to a distance of 50 to 55 cm of the supporting surface (countertop), to harness saved zone is desirable that cabinets or cupboards reach the ceiling handle.

Pay special attention to when planning the location of facilities aguay taps for the sink and drains consider it. Also, if you install a hood or exhaust smoke, steam and gas for cooking appliance, it is placed at a maximum height of 90 cm, the distance from the gangplank of the kitchen (located where the burners of the appliance).

Here are some basic aspects of the preliminary design of a kitchen, which vary depending on many factors, such as coatings, colors and styles, to get to custom design your own kitchen.

Recommendation: You can make your own, initially to recommend that you make, but should “always” … “always”, consult a qualified professional of Architecture and / or design to guide, check and correct steps of your project and bring it to design efficient and functional.