10 Different Types of Kitchen Ideas

10 Different Types of Kitchen
Ideas

Created By: Jacqueline Tobin

 Kitchen is a small room meant for the purpose of cooking and food preparation. Most of
the time the lady of the house remains in this small room cooking for her family. So, why
not to make it, where the women spend most of the time, a place where she would love
to work?

 The evolution of the kitchen is linked to the invention of the cooking range or stove and
the development of water infrastructure capable of supplying water to private homes.
Until the 18th century, food was cooked over an open fire. Technical advances in heating
food in the 18th and 19th centuries changed the architecture of the kitchen. Before the
advent of modern pipes, water was brought from an outdoor source such as wells, pumps
or springs.

 Generally, a kitchen has a stove, a kitchen sink, a place to keep utensils and a place to
keep the groceries. Unusually, it also has a place for refrigerator. Being belonging to a
Punjabi family, kitchen is one of my favorite places.

 Rightly said that a the way to a man’s (or for that matter a women also) heart is well
cooked, delicious food of his/her choice. Here, I am trying to enlist some kinds of kitchen’s
built forms that can be used in a house to make the place workable and beautiful at the
same time:

1. Traditional Type of Kitchen

Traditional type of kitchen has that
aesthetic appeal resembling to the past, or
can be said derived from the past. The
interior has the arches, the ancient
contemporary materials being used for
wall, floor and roof finishes. These kitchens
look very beautiful, elegant and also impart
the feel of traditionalism and culture.

2. Small Kitchen

A small apartment with a small area can’t have an area
for a large kitchen. So why not to utilize that small space
efficiently and use every inch of the space with
maximum intelligence and tactful planning.
A small kitchen might include some cabinets, and a
stove, a ventilator, and a sink. These are must
requirements. Other than this, if space allows, add on to
the place for a sitting or something related to keeping
of fridge or a microwave, etc.

3. Straight Kitchen

This is the most common type of kitchen
being used all over the world. Reason
behind this is, one, it is easy to fit in any kind
of planning, two, it is easy to plan in itself,
three, whatever it may, it does not affect to
the aesthetics of the house.
A kitchen that lines up in a straight line
against one wall is called a straight kitchen.
This kitchen has everything that is required
but is still beautiful besides it’s alignment.

4. Island Kitchen

 An island kitchen is a type of a kitchen that
has an island means a place that is
centrally located that might not be
necessarily be the part of kitchen utensils or
the slab. It can be used for storage, or for
seating slab.

 An island adds storage area in addition to
cabinetry

 A kitchen island is perfect for kids
 Extra seating is a major asset
 A movable kitchen island adds versatility
 Place additional kitchen amenities at your

island
 The material options for an island are endless

5. Modular Kitchen

Modular kitchen is combination of standard
and interconnected cabinets, hardware and
accessories. Interconnection makes all of them
function like a monolithic structure. Unlike
standard and separate units, it is easy to
manufacture, easy to transport, easy to install,
easy to re-install and easy to maintain.
It is designed for specific functions such as
drawer unit, sink unit, gas cylinder unit, corner
unit etc. Modular kitchen comes in various
shapes, sizes and forms. These prefabricated
kitchens can be chosen according to the will
of the person

6. L-Shaped Kitchen

L-shaped kitchens have slabs on the two
sides of the kitchen walls. It is again a
common type of kitchen design being
used as is linear in its form and is easy to
adjust in any kind of house or place
irrespective of the shape of other building
parts.

7. Large Kitchen

Large kitchens are quite common these days
as the people have started realizing the
importance of the kitchen place. These
kitchens have a larger area and can be
beautifully designed according to the
requirements of the place and users.
Materials available are many and can be
chosen accordingly, as for the large kitchen
restrictions of the materials minimize to a large
extent.

8. Transitional Kitchen

These types of kitchen can be seen in
modern day planning. These types of
kitchens are space friendly and occupy a
lot less space having all the basic
amenities fulfilled though.

9. Dining Kitchen

Kitchen combined with a dining area, i.e. a
place where food can be eaten, is known
as dining kitchen. People who love to eat
freshly cooked food and or the people who
love hot food, this type of kitchen is a
preferable choice

10. U-Shaped Kitchen

The U-shaped kitchen layout is one of the
basic kitchen layouts that decades of
continuous hard work had lead to establishing
of its existence. The U-shaped kitchen layout is
a useful and versatile layout for a small,
medium or large kitchen.

A U-shaped kitchen consists of work space on
three adjoining walls, two parallel walls
perpendicular to a third. There are no traffic
lanes flowing through the work area.

Kitchens are the most important part of a
building, whether be residential or
commercial. So, design it according keeping
in mind that the user feels relaxed while
working in there, rather feeling suffocated.

Thank you!