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Food Prep Cooking Baking Cleaning

Kitchen Zone One: Food Prep
The food prep zone is the area of the kitchen where you slice and dice. If your kitchen is spacious enough to accommodate an island cabinet, the food prep zone would be well placed there. It’s helpful to include another sink for rinsing fruits and vegetables, as well as including a refrigerator drawer for milk and eggs if your main refrigerator isn’t easily accessible.

In your food prep zone include:
Pullouts
Drawer for knives
Drawers for mixing, measuring and serving items
Pullout trash center

Kitchen Zone Two: Baking Zone
This area is built for fun! The baking zone of the kitchen is where cookies, breads, and casseroles come to life. Aside from the appropriate countertop space and material (marble slabs work best for rolling dough), you’ll need to keep a number of your kitchen’s supplies within easy reach.

Include:
Drawers for storing small items like cookie cutters
Storage Bins for flour and sugar
Pull Out Tray divider for baking sheets and pizza pans
Drop down cookbook rack
Drawers for rolling pins, measuring cups, and teaspoons
Easy-to-reach cabinet space for heavy casserole dishes and mixing bowls
Storage for oven mitts, pot holders, and trivets
Divided utensil storage for spatulas and wooden spoons
Pop-up stand for your mixer

Kitchen Zone Three: Cooking Zone
The cooking zone is always a hot place to be. The kitchen’s cooking zone is where fire enters the picture. Centered around the range or cook top, this is the spot where stir-fry, spaghetti, and sauces and steaks  sizzle. You may want to keep your microwave and toaster oven here as well.

Include:
Deep drawers for pans
Shallow drawers for pot lids
Spice drawer (or cleverly hidden racks in pull outs)
Microwave cabinet for concealing and saving countertop space
Utensil drawer for spatulas and spoons

Kitchen Zone Four: Cleaning Zone
Next to your sink and dishwasher, the cleaning area of the kitchen is the home of water and washing.  Keep “water dependent products” like your coffeemaker and salad spinner nearby. You’ll also be emptying the last bits of lasagna and soup into containers here, so keep storage supplies nearby. Include space for an adequate number of cleaning and drying supplies, as well as a convenient way to store clean dishware.

Include:
Pullout rack for dishtowels
Plate rack for storing daily or occasional dinnerware
Under sink pullout for dish washing detergent and cleaner
Tilt out sink tray for sponges. Drawer for aluminum foil, paper, and plastic wrap storage
Pullout drawer for Tupperware, divided for lids and containers

Although not directly involved in the four zones of the kitchen remember the “dining zone.” There is more flexibility involved with designing your eating area, but do consider adding easily accessible storage for tablecloths, place-mats, napkins, or infrequently used chinaware.

Footnotes: Although used in this article the word Remodelings may not be an official word.

Topics of Article Include:
Kitchen Remodeling

Kitchen Zones

Kitchen Remodelings

Kitchen Plotting

Kitchen Designs

New Kitchens

Kitchen Zones

Kitchen Remodeling Kitchen Zones

Remodeling Kitchens Four Kitchen Zones

Kitchen Designs and Proper Kitchen Plotting for New Kitchens

Kitchen Remodels: Kitchen Remodeling Dollar Amount For New Kitchens
Kitchen Remodeling Lesson Three: Dollar Investment
Kitchen Remodels: Kitchen Remodeling Dollar Amount

Everyone looking to remodel a kitchen has the vital question to consider – “How much does a new kitchen cost?”

Guess what? There is an answer!
And your Answer – How much does a new car cost?

Amazingly the investment for a new car is very close to the investment for new kitchen cabinets. As there is a wide range in car selections and car quality, so is the range and selection for new kitchen cabinets. A basic small Geo Metro, Ford Escort, Saturn, and a small car like my first car (Toyota Corolla) all differ greatly in price from a top of the line SUV shall we say Hummer, Jeep, or Bigfoot himself.

To get the right price on the right vehicle usually doing your homework and understanding your investment is in your best interest. This is the case with new cabinets, in nearly the exact same manner and price range. Going with used cabinets offers the same type of problems as buying a used car does to the purchaser.

Know what goes into each task when you talk to kitchen designers or remodel contractors. By taking time to know the kitchen plotting you will be able to control the cost of the new kitchen.

You are still reading! You are doing better than 6 out of seven readers! You like knowledge and I know you are on your way to Kitchen Remodeling Success! Keep up the diligence!

Remodeling your own kitchen in this manner will seem scary at first. As you place together your plotting information box, all at once things will fall into place. If you like putting together 5,000 piece jig saw puzzles you may not like this task as the jig saw puzzle will only be around 100 pieces. It still will be a challenge to most of us, and understanding the kitchen design will not be easy until we can look at the jigsaw puzzles box cover and see the huge picture.

“Let me see the cover,” my sister would say to my brother who were both huge into jigsaw puzzles. Although I did not have this skill, they both would fight over the box cover and by looking at the cover they could clearly see where each puzzle piece was to be placed.

Read the cover to your new kitchen carefully. Analyze your existing kitchen. Then – choose the right hardware, material, products, and appliances for your kitchen’s needs.

Plot a kitchen layout that suits your lifestyle. Include the kitchen dollar investment that is right for you – by doing your homework and taking time to know the kitchen remodeling process.

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