Getting your kitchen into shape
WE ARE metre greedy monsters in our homes. Still, is bigger always better? As few steps through the kitchen as possible during the course of making and clearing for a meal offers convenient, chef friendly territory. A small, well-appointed, kitchen is preferable to a flash but flabby large room with terraces of cabinets.
There are five usual shapes of kitchen — the L, the double galley, the U, the-one wall and the island based kitchen (often set within the L, in a corner). Where an acre of kitchen can be devoted to any number of aspirational activity areas such as baking and worshiping the making of coffee, the smaller kitchen is best returned to the 1950s theory of the work triangle.
