BrightonContemporary Kitchen, Melbourne
A real working kitchen with Miele appliances, Reece fittings and lots of storage. The Island bench is ideal for entertaining with the unique pendant lighting adding a big splash if elegance.
What Houzzers are commenting on:
How do I create a 5-zone kitchen? DROP??Palmer: - Absolutely. The zones can even be repeated, soyou can have a consumables and cleaning zone in a butler’s pantry for example, anda consumables and cleaning zone in the open part of the kitchen.- The evolution of the modern kitchen layout tiesinto existing and enduring trends, which occur in parallel to each other, suchas:o The small home: the cost of ownership and square meter costs of property ingeneral whether rented or ownedo Themultigenerational home: homes that contain either young children, parents andaging grandparents in the same household, or boomer parents living with theiryoung to not so young adult children.- In many ways the zoned approach opens up a widerarray of layouts as you are only restricted in the way that you design for thesensible interaction of the functions from zone to zone. You want to groupzones together in sensible ways, such as cleaning being adjacent to some of thenon-consumables zones, but as long as the kitchen functions, and takes intoconsideration the needs of each person doing their particular task within thespace, the variation of floor plan and layout is non-restrictive.- The kitchen has evolved from a closed-off roomof the home to open-plan and inclusive, and with the formal dining room gone, theopen-plan kitchen is here to stay. - The open-plan structure is necessary due to theneed for multiple people to be carrying out different tasks within the samespace, separating into their own space but together as a family unit
