Kitchens: How to balance practicality with appearance

If you want a kitchen that is user-friendly as well as sleek, it will have easy access to appliances for repair and replacement

Tullio Orlandi designed his own kitchen to mix functionality with streamlined cabinetry where utility products are behind closed doors.

It's easy to be seduced by a dreamy kitchen with utilitarian aspects hidden away for a seamless finish.

But what do you do when waking to a whiff of burning plastic, leading you swiftly to an overheating integrated fridge billowing steam, only to find you can’t unplug it because the socket is behind it and on/off switch won’t cooperate?