What are the advantages and disadvantages of an open kitchen?

First, let's talk about the disadvantages

1. Talk about the soot problem that turns pale with fear.

The problem of cooking fume in the open kitchen is indeed an unavoidable problem, especially for Chinese families who are used to cooking and frying, which may find it difficult to accept the open kitchen.

2. Cleanliness.

No matter how messy the internal space is in the traditional Chinese kitchen, it's good to have a door to cover up some embarrassment.

3. Children's safety.

Many families with children may worry that the open kitchen will bring certain safety problems to their children. For example, the children will always be around their mothers when they are cooking, which will indeed pose a certain degree of threat to their safety.

second, let's talk about the advantages.

1. The change of home life center.

when designing home decoration, Chinese kitchens are usually designed around the living room, but open kitchens are mostly designed around the kitchen. In this respect, the difference is actually very big.

in the traditional Chinese kitchen environment, our home life center is usually in the living room, but if it is an open kitchen, it means that the home life center will be transformed into a kitchen, dining room and living room.

2. Family members are more interactive.

In the traditional Chinese kitchen, cooking is generally a person's business, but the open kitchen can make the family more interactive. Even if you cook alone, people who cook can chat with their families while cooking, so that the kitchen work that was originally boring is no longer boring. More often, families prepare meals together, cook together and chat together, which obviously enhances the interaction and makes kitchen work interesting.

3. The space is wider and the vision is better.

the kitchen, dining room and living room are designed in an integrated way, and a few walls are missing, which can make the space look wider, have a better view, have stronger permeability and improve the space utilization efficiency.

4. Improve the comfort of the kitchen.

While cooking in the kitchen, you can enjoy the air conditioning in the living room and watch TV. Is it more comfortable than the traditional closed kitchen?

Third, personal views

I have been working in the home decoration industry for more than ten years, and I personally admire the open kitchen more and more.

in my personal opinion, compared with the four advantages I mentioned above, what are those three disadvantages? Besides, these three advantages have their own solutions. For example, the problem of oil fume can be solved by choosing a range hood with large air volume, at least it can be alleviated to a great extent; The cleanliness of the kitchen can be solved by the integrated design during decoration and the cultivation of living habits after decoration; As for children's safety, whether it's a Chinese kitchen or an open kitchen, we can't ignore these problems either. To put it bluntly, it has little to do with whether the kitchen is Chinese or western.

Another trend is to separate the Chinese kitchen from the western kitchen. Many owners I have served have reduced the original Chinese kitchen to only two or three square meters, leaving all the remaining area to the western kitchen and dining room. As for the villa type, the Chinese kitchen and the western kitchen are designed separately.