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KSA Update
Kitchen Layouts, June 2023
f you are planning for or designing a
new kitchen you are probably aware
Iof the number of details that go into
the process. From choosing the kitchen
layout to picking kitchen cabinet design energy between these zones to optimize you to keep the hob on one side of the
ideas, there are a number of decisions that your time in the kitchen. island and the oven on the other. The
need to be made. One of which is how to island itself can form part of the triangle
optimise your space. Each of the layouts The U or G shaped kitchen: (if you are placing your hob or sink on the
below are ‘typical’ shapes which link back This is the easiest space to work with. island) or totally outside of the triangle
to an optimal ergonomic kitchen plan It facilitates three runs of cabinets or (if the island is purely for dining and
based on the magic work triangle. worksurface in the shape of a U or with a counterspace). You can pair an island
The magic work triangle is a design double back creating a G. Here applying with a straight, U-shaped or L-shaped
premise that keeps your key zones the triangle is easy and allows you to kitchen, depending on the size of the
(cooking/washing/storing) optimally have your hob, sink and fridge each on a space available to you.
separated but linked via a triangle. The separate run of cupboards.
primary tasks in a home kitchen are The galley or in-line kitchen layout:
carried out between the stove/oven, the The island shaped kitchen: Here you have one bank of cupboards,
sink and the refrigerator. Optimally the Here is when your kitchen design is or two, running parallel to one another.
triangle should be as small as possible centred around a kitchen island. Space To make the work triangle viable here,
and as naturally shaped as possible. Each becomes exceptionally important in this you need to elongate it.
side of the triangle should measure no layout. The key is to ensure you have Considering movement is very
less than 1,2m and no more than 3m a good flow through the kitchen and important on this layout – particularly
and, ideally, the perimeter of the triangle good access to all cupboards within the in a galley set up. It is vital that both
should be no less than 4m and no more island. The island should not become a banks of cupboards and their appliances
than 8m. The idea is to reduce the amount hindrance. Here you can work with two can be utilised by more than one person
of walking and unnecessarily expend work triangles if you want. This allows at a time, and that if someone is working
Kitchen galley, or inline
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