What are some fundamentals for today’s kitchen designs? Start here for some ideas!
A kitchen in a custom home can be anything you want it to be, but contemporary kitchen designs have a lot of practicality to offer that is worth considering for your custom kitchen. “What are the most popular features for modern kitchens?” you might ask. It turns out that they mainly relate to useful storage.
Kitchen Islands for Dining
The most prominent popular feature for modern kitchens, however, is the kitchen island. Not only are they popular for meal prep, but they are becoming a gathering center for dining and socializing also. Consider making room for seating at your custom kitchen island.
Butler Pantries
A butler pantry is a compact storage and preparation area in a transitional space, typically close to one of the kitchen entrances. Set apart from the rest of the food prep space, it may house a small pantry, a sink, and an under-counter fridge. It might also just be your coffee bar or wine bar.
Pull-Out Drawers
No one likes scrounging around a cluttered mess in their kitchen cabinets. Pull-out drawers for kitchen cabinets are a contemporary and highly useful feature for making dry goods and cooking equipment accessible.
Trash & Recycling Pull-Out Cabinet
You are hardly likely to walk into a new kitchen these days and not see a cabinet dedicated to the trash and recycling bins. Although possibly difficult for guests to find at first, this pull-out cabinet hides even the indication of garbage out of sight.
Corner Lazy Susans
Corner storage maximizes the usefulness of those otherwise dead spaces between upper and lower kitchen cabinets. You will often see a couple of lazy susan shelves within them; some swing out, while others simply rotate.
Appliance Drawers
Modern kitchens also feature more under-counter appliance drawers, like microwave oven drawers, dishwasher drawers, and warming drawers. You are more likely to find them within a kitchen island.
Layered Lighting
The kitchen wouldn’t be complete without lighting to see all the above popular features for modern kitchens. Lighting you want to have are ambient lighting, task lighting, and possibly accent lighting.
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