The Pot Racks.
What springs to mind when you think of pot racks?
My impression is a wrought iron hanging rack over a kitchen island with dangling copper pots and pans.
That is one image, but there are so many varying materials and designs.
As I mentioned above, the hanging pot rack. These generally hang from the ceiling on chains or rods over kitchen islands, counters or stoves.
These do not work in low ceiling kitchens for obvious reasons. In a high ceiling kitchen they do require you to be able to reach them so …

How do you choose what colors will work for your kitchen design?
It’s easier than you think. Once you eliminate what won’t work, you are left with a simple palette to choose from. So here are a few ways to filter out colors from your kitchen.
Color for Small Spaced Kitchens
Don’t use dark timbers and colors that will make the space appear smaller. So avoid dark reds, purples, dark blues and greens.
Look for clear crisp colors or whites with a tint of blue, green or yellow for a subtle background of color. …

Kitchen styles - sleek and industrial, rustic and homely, crisp and fresh, which one suits you?
There is an expression for all the differing kitchen styles available, but they all have one thing in common.
They all have a sink, oven and refrigerator!
Most have many more appliances and this makes the kitchen the most expensive room in the home to equip.
So careful planning and attention to detail for every aspect is essential from electrical power point placement to light fittings; the kitchen is a complex space to design.
The kitchen is the hub …

Like all things that are built, if you get the foundation correct then the finishing items usually go into the main system fairly smoothly. So it follows that if you plan your kitchen correctly and methodically then the process should be relatively straight forward, however if you start with the finished idea then that may not be at all practical.
To plan a kitchen we need to start with establishing the parameters within which we have to work. This includes the actual space, the uses of that space and the budget.
There …

KEHIDUPAN modern mensyaratkan perubahan-perubahan yang mendasar. Saat ini, di rumah-rumah keluarga menengah di kota besar sudah semakin sulit dijumpai dapur yang hitam penuh jelaga dan lantai yang lengket.

Karena itu, tak heran bila saat ini terbagi dua dapur, dapur basah dan dapur kering, yang memiliki fungsi berbeda. Dapur yang biasanya disatukan dengan ruang keluarga atau ruang makan kerap disebut sebagai pantry atau dapur kering. Ruangan ini biasanya dilengkapi perlengkapan dapur modern. Sementara itu, dapur basah biasa digunakan untuk memasak. Dapur basah ini lebih banyak digunakan untuk menghangatkan makanan sebelum disajikan atau …