Respects Your Need for Space

No matter how great every other detail of your future kitchen is, you won't be truly happy with it unless you've got good flow and some elbow room.  A masterfully good layout is essential.  Space planning happens to be one of my favorite aspects of the design process.  I love taking a dis-functional space (whether it be a generic layout on a set of blueprints or an existing kitchen space that needs to be gutted) and transforming it into something that truly works for the homeowners.  It is such a personal process that you really can't tell someone else how to do it.  What works for one family may be horrible for another family, but in general, these are some of the important aspects of a spacious and good layout: