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[quote=Anonymous]Go to Houzz and look at the kitchen forum, lots of good advice. It takes a lot of time/effort ahead of time but list everything you keep in your kitchen and sketch out where you will put it, to determine cabinet placement. Also, really consider different zones of the kitchen and how many people you have in the kitchen at one time. My architect really liked to designs kitchen that had “focus points” but was functionally inefficient for us. For example, he liked the main sink in the island and the range across; my husband often clears up the kitchen while I cook and it is a PITA to be in the same area. We have a cook zone, a clean zone (with dish storage) and a separate snack/drink zone to keep the kids out from underfoot.

Measure your pots/pans/dishes to make sure they fit. Love a cabinet with vertical dividers for sheet pans. You can make drawers that have a shallow interior drawer to store lids above pots or measuring utensils etc. also consider if you keep standard cabinet interiors, rev-a-shelf makes a lot of interior fittings. We upgraded our interior and in hindsight I would not have bc it limits the number of inserts that match.

2 sinks is key. Also, consider accessibility - my kids are little so I made sure our snacks/breakfast foods are low so they can get; dish storage is within their reach so they can empty dishwasher and feed themselves. I did not want a drawer microwave but didn’t have other space, it ended up being helpful bc even my youngest can reach it and reheat food. [/quote]

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