5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen Nice and Functional!

Your kitchen can be the busiest place in your home with lots of messy activity taking place in it. It can be a real problem for some busy homeowners who do not have the time to keep the space clean after use; especially for wives whom can be already tired of work during the office hour and without an assistant at home, it can be a real challenge!

Here we want to help homeowners who face challenges in maintaining their kitchens; not to just look nice but also avoid common kitchen problems; like water damage, worktop stains, insufficient storage and etc.

Always get a Designer advice on this! Whether you are a small family or large family who enjoy cooking at home, a Designer can best advice on what materials and design that suits your lifestyle. For instance, Quartz Stone (Imported material) is one of the best material for kitchen worktop because they are heat resistant, anti-bacterial, acid resistant and durable.


Lifestyle Category 1: Kitchen for Entertainment

Island unit with 3 seaters for a few people to sit around while the cook is preparing food

Peninsula unit with 3 seaters for a few people to sit around while the cook is preparing food

Island unit with 5 seaters for a few people to sit around while the cook is preparing food

Lifestyle Category 2: Kitchen for Small Family

This layout has small seater area enough for small family

Smaller seater area enough for the kids to play while watching the mom cook

Kitchen for small family

Two seaters at the Peninsula for small family

Lifestyle Category 3: Integrated Kitchen




Lifestyle Category 4: Kitchen To Accommodate Extra Helpers

Modern Kitchen with medium space for family or friends to gather and help with the food preparation

Medium size kitchen with enough space for kitchen activities with friends and family during gathering

2. Keep Only The Important Things!

Yes, you do not need all those extra pots and pans! Keep only the ones you frequently use for your daily cooking activity. 

Too much of unnecessary items in your kitchen can only make your kitchen look messy and not practical to use, as most of the spaces are used to keep all those unnecessary items!

Keep stuff in its proper place. Don't leave on table top. A messy kitchen is not a fun place to be in.

"But all of these items are useful during occasions and holidays when family and friends came together to our house." Yes! there is no denial about this, that is why our next tips are important!

3. Organize Your Storage

Identify your need for storage capacity. Both modern and traditional lifestyle will need a different kind of design to cater to their needs.

Most Modern families do not really need much of storage capacity comparing to Traditional families who make use of their kitchen more than the Modern families do. 

This is where the Designer skill takes place; to measure your kitchen size and plan the space wisely to get the proper storage capacity that suits your needs.

As Traditional families will need a bigger storage, a full height kitchen cabinet and full kitchen fittings will be very helpful to keep all the kitchen items properly inside the cabinet and keep the kitchen look clean.

Full-height High Gloss Kitchen Cabinets using Signature Kitchen brand

If your kitchen storage is still not enough, you might want to consider other space in your home, like storage room to keep your items or you can splurge some of your money on these smart kitchen storage solution:

Cabinet corner storage : Kessebohmer Lemans allows extra pot and pans to be kept in corners. Its trays swing right out in front of the cabinet and each one is always within easy reach!

Cabinet corner storage : Kessebohmer MagicCorner is capable of housing two complete cabinet units next to each other in only one corner cabinet. (Image credit to Google)

Kitchen Appliance : Smeg Built-in Food Warmer

Drawer System: BLUM Inner Drawer allows multi-gallery drawers for separate storage inside one door

Drawer System: BLUM Inner Drawer allows multi-gallery drawers for separate storage inside one door

Drawer System: BLUM Inner Drawer allows multi-gallery drawers for separate storage inside one door

Cabinet Hinges System : BLUM Aventos lift-ups is the ideal lift up system for mid and high wall units and for niche cabinets with cabinets positioned above them.