An optimal kitchen layout ensures efficient workflows and perfect cooking enjoyment.
The focus here is on five work areas. In this guide, we explain what these are, what to look out for when organising your kitchen and how to keep walking distances in your kitchen short.
New kitchen, new happiness: When planning your new cooking area, the kitchen layout is a key convenience factor. Experts divide the workflow in the kitchen into five zones:
Tip: Cabinets with pull-outs allow particularly convenient access. Apothecary cabinets that can be accessed from two sides are ideal for supplies.
The more carefully you plan and coordinate the five kitchen zones, the quicker you will have important utensils to hand - and can look forward to carefree cooking enjoyment. For example, if the dishwasher is located directly next to the storage zone, you save time when putting things away. A storage cupboard near the hob speeds up the search for spices and ingredients.
The right kitchen layout varies with the shape of your row. The following applies:
The individual work areas should be close enough to each other to ensure short distances and provide sufficient space.
Tip: The correct working height varies with your height. Ideally, the worktop should be 10 to 15 centimetres below your elbows.
The perfect kitchen layout takes into account whether the main users are right-handed or left-handed. Typically, kitchens are planned for right-handers.
Left-handers should therefore make sure that they open doors with their right hand to access crockery, pots and pans with their left hand. Also make sure that the drainboard on the sink is positioned on the right and that the trash can is placed to the left of the sink.
Important: right-handers plan the kitchen layout clockwise, left-handers anti-clockwise.
Ideally, there should be at least 90, preferably 120 centimetres of continuous work surface in the kitchen.
The kitchen triangle, also known as the work triangle, describes the efficient arrangement of three work areas in the kitchen: The cooking zone with hob and oven, the washing-up area and the storage zone with fridge and/or larder unit are positioned in a triangle.
The work triangle in the kitchen keeps the distances between the individual stations short and there is enough space between the elements for two or more people to work comfortably.
