Efficient Kitchen Layouts | United Bilt Homes Blog

Home cooking is enjoying a resurgence in popularity ? and we?re all enjoying fresh cooked food and time with family and friends around the dinner table, so it?s a trend most of us would like to support.

An efficient layout in the kitchen makes all the difference. Meal preparation is faster, less stressful, and more successful overall if your kitchen is designed for efficiency.

The first principle for efficient kitchen design is the work triangle. As shown here in the Millcreek kitchen, the sink, stove, and fridge should form the points of a neat triangle with no obstacles. With a good work triangle, you can grab ingredients from the refrigerator, stir a pot, and get water with just a step or two.

While all kitchens should have the convenient work triangle shown above, the details of the layout can vary. The Millcreek kitchen is a galley style, with two parallel walls of work space. This layout isn?t the best if you like to entertain in your kitchen and to have several people cooking at once. However, for one cook, it?s the neatest and most efficient plan. The cook scarcely has to take any steps while preparing a meal, and there?s no wasted space.

The Acadian III may be a better choice for couples or families who like to cook together, as well as for the kind of entertaining that encourages guests in the kitchen. The work triangle is still compact, but the U shape with a bar and an open wall allows the cook to interact with guests or to delegate chopping to a helper.

The Keystone has an L-shaped kitchen. This is the most open type. Two of the work stations in the work triangle are on the same wall in an L-shaped kitchen.

This can be a very efficient plan, as well as a convenient one for entertaining or for the busy family home where there has to be space for kids and dogs to come and go through the kitchen.

This type of kitchen is also suitable for multiple cooks. As you can see in the picture below, an L-shaped kitchen with an island, like the kitchen of the Keystone, can include two adapted work triangles at once. Here, one cook can prep and cook food from the fridge while the second cook works at the stove and sink.

An L-shaped kitchen?s one drawback can be a lack of counter space. An island is a solution.

The size of a kitchen can affect the cook?s experience, the amount of food that can be stored, or the number of kids and dogs you can enjoy having around while cooking, but it?s the layout ? and in particular, the work triangle, that makes the most difference.

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