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I'm a Certified Kitchen Designer
by the National Kitchen and Bathroom Association, which has well-formulated
design rules to ensure the best possible design and construction practices. Here's
a selection of those guidelines so you can see how they ensure that yours is a safer,
more efficient, more enjoyable kitchen based on sound design principles.
- Entrances should be 810 mm wide
(some refrigerators are over 800 mm).
- Entrance doors should not open
against appliances, especially ovens.
- Overhead cabinets should be a
minimum of 300 mm deep with adjustable shelving, to hold full size dinner plates
and to enable convenient reach.
- No two primary work centres (cooktop
or oven, fridge and sink) should be separated by a full depth cabinet or appliance.
- Base cabinets should have a minimum
interior depth of 530 mm. Some cooktops and sinks require more.
- Two waste receptacles should
be included, one for garbage and one for recycling.
- Allow at least 600 mm on one
side of a sink and 450 mm on the other for adequate work area. (Corner space should
not be included.)
- The dishwasher should be at least
530 mm from corners so you have access from both sides.
- Preparation space should be next
to the sink, at least 900 mm wide.
- The space between a cooktop and
an overhanging surface should be at least 600 mm for a protected surface, 750 mm
for an unprotected surface.
- The work triangle between sink,
cooktop and refrigerator should be no more than 8000 mm. No single side of the triangle
should be less than 1200 mm nor more than 2700 mm.
- No benchtop, table or other fitting
should protrude more than 300 mm into the work triangle.
- Traffic flow through the work
triangle should be avoided.
The area of a natural light
source, such as a skylight or window, should be equal to no less than 10% of the
floor space of the kitchen's work area.
These are just a handful of literally
scores of such guidelines that we observe in the design and construction of your
kitchen. It's one more attention to detail that sets us – and your kitchen –
apart from the rest.
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