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How your kitchen can enhance your wellbeing

A well-designed kitchen plays an integral part in defining your home life

By Lorraine Crighton-Smith |

When designing your new kitchen, what’s top of your wish list? More space, additional work surfaces, a pantry, an island or good kitchen organisation ideas? Before planning where everything goes, start with what’s important to the very core of your life at home.

Ask yourself, ‘How do you want to change your life?’, suggests an expert at Life Kitchens for Living. If you have a busy family life, good kitchen storage and organisation can really streamline your day-to-day, lowering stress levels and enhancing your wellbeing.

Amblecote kitchen with large kitchen island and forest green bar stools

Photo: Life Kitchens

A central hub

Do you long to spend more time together as a family? Then look to create a central hub where you can come together for day-to-day activities, including cooking, dining, socialising, working from home, doing school homework, reading and entertaining.

It’s about creating multifunctional spaces within the kitchen, where individual parts can be used alone or in unison. The key is keeping it seamlessly connected.

ope plan kitchen and dining area with kitchen peninsula in a neutral palette

Photo: Life Kitchens

Optimal layout

Your designer can work with you to find the optimal layout for your family’s needs, paying close attention to how all the elements connect. In an open-plan kitchen, for example, a kitchen island or peninsula provides the perfect punctuation between cooking zone and dining area, while still allowing social interactions.

kitchen storage & organisation with lots of cupboards, a cooking zone and large island

Photo: Life Kitchens

Keep it calm

To keep the main kitchen-living space as calm and as uncluttered as possible, many people are now opting to move noisy appliances, messy boot rooms and laundry machines into adjacent rooms. A utility room often comes up in discussions around kitchen organisation ideas, because they’re a great way to shut away all that noise.

a utility room is one of the best kitchen organisation ideas for busy family life

Photo: Life Kitchens

When designing your new kitchen, what’s top of your wish list? More space, additional work surfaces, a pantry, an island or good kitchen organisation ideas? Before planning where everything goes, start with what’s important to the very core of your life at home.

Ask yourself, ‘How do you want to change your life?’, suggests an expert at Life Kitchens for Living. If you have a busy family life, good kitchen storage and organisation can really streamline your day-to-day, lowering stress levels and enhancing your wellbeing.

Amblecote kitchen with large kitchen island and forest green bar stools

Photo: Life Kitchens

A central hub

Do you long to spend more time together as a family? Then look to create a central hub where you can come together for day-to-day activities, including cooking, dining, socialising, working from home, doing school homework, reading and entertaining.

It’s about creating multifunctional spaces within the kitchen, where individual parts can be used alone or in unison. The key is keeping it seamlessly connected.

ope plan kitchen and dining area with kitchen peninsula in a neutral palette

Photo: Life Kitchens

Optimal layout

Your designer can work with you to find the optimal layout for your family’s needs, paying close attention to how all the elements connect. In an open-plan kitchen, for example, a kitchen island or peninsula provides the perfect punctuation between cooking zone and dining area, while still allowing social interactions.

kitchen storage & organisation with lots of cupboards, a cooking zone and large island

Photo: Life Kitchens

Keep it calm

To keep the main kitchen-living space as calm and as uncluttered as possible, many people are now opting to move noisy appliances, messy boot rooms and laundry machines into adjacent rooms. A utility room often comes up in discussions around kitchen organisation ideas, because they’re a great way to shut away all that noise.

a utility room is one of the best kitchen organisation ideas for busy family life

Photo: Life Kitchens

Kitchen organisation ideas

If your goal is a more organised, clutter-free kitchen, understanding where mess starts to pile up is key to reimagining the inner workings of your kitchen. From there, you can select your smart kitchen storage and organisation solutions, from easy-to-access pan drawers to shelves that glide and tall cupboards with pull-down solutions – right down to the slimmest of pull-outs for herbs and spices.

Pantries are a sought-after kitchen feature, creating ample storage for dried foods, unsightly appliances, and day-to-day kitchen items that clutter up surfaces.

wooden kitchen pantry with coffee station and forest green cupboards

Photo: Life Kitchens

A calm, relaxing environment can help improve your general wellbeing. As our homes become more multi-functional, the kitchen can be a space for cooking, baking, socialising, relaxing, working from home, or even a make-shift classroom. Good kitchen design is the secret to seamless, stress-free transitions.

modern open-plan kitchen and living room with clever kitchen organisation ideas

Photo: Life Kitchens

Find out more

Life Kitchens for Living, a UK-based fifth-generation family business with roots tracing back over 100 years, has a flagship showroom in London Waterloo and headquarters in County Durham. To explore how to craft a life-changing kitchen in your home, request an appointment with an expert designer from Life Kitchens, or call into the store to browse at your leisure.

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