Bespoke Kitchen Design: Top Tips From Expert Designers

In many ways, a kitchen is quite a personal thing. It’s a space that reflects a lot about you, your tastes, and your habits as a person. What you cook and how you cook may change over the years but the entire process is an integral part of your everyday life. All this to say that it’s easy to underestimate the importance of a kitchen that reflects your personality and how much of a difference bespoke kitchen design can make to your life.

In this article, we’ll be exploring some common things you should know about bespoke kitchen design as well as a couple of the major pitfalls many people fall into.

Always Plan First

First of all, it’s vitally important to always plan everything you do. It might sound surprising but when budgeting out their new kitchen, so many people fail to sufficiently plan out the space and end up having to seriously rethink their approach at some point. Instead, before ordering any appliances or getting any fitters in, you really need to start by nailing down exactly what you’re going to do.

In effect, that means taking good measurements, understanding the space you’re working in, and, if you don’t have the expertise to check your plan over, finding someone who does.

Make Space For Storage

One place where bespoke kitchen designs often struggle is in creating storage space. Storage space is very important in a kitchen and if you don’t have enough storage space it can cause problems for years.

Now, it can be very tempting to cut into your storage space in order to make room for more/larger appliances, but unless you’re willing to throw out many of your kitchen utensils, cutlery, and chinaware, you may want to rethink that plan. Furthermore, not all the food you buy will go in the fridge, so you’ll also need plenty of cupboard space for that.

Once again, this is an area where good planning will save the day. Always make sure to look at how much stuff you have and how much food you buy before installing your new kitchen so you don’t run into this problem afterwards.

Good Lighting Matters

Another place where many bespoke kitchen designs sometimes fall flat is lighting. This can happen for a couple of reasons. The first is that people often prioritise natural light, overestimating how bright the room will actually be during the daytime, and the second is that people don’t always realise just how much light a kitchen requires.

In practice, the kitchen should be one of the brightest rooms in your house. After all, not only is it the room where you regularly handle hot and potentially hazardous materials, but it’s also the place where you’ll regularly have to do careful and precise work – unless you decide to just live on microwave meals.

All in all, the key to a great bespoke kitchen design is good forth-thought. That’s why, above all else, we recommend speaking with experienced kitchen designers before putting your own design together.