First of all, the benefits of an open kitchen
Open kitchen has many advantages, and it is estimated that people who have used it will put it down. The biggest benefits are the following: sense of space, happiness at home, and cool pleasure in summer. Let's analyze them one by one.
1, small apartment and large space
For some small-sized houses, the kitchen may be a very crowded small space and the cooking experience is poor. The open pattern can make the kitchen space more spacious. Through the open design, the guest kitchen space is integrated, and the overall home space is more spacious and comfortable, and the cooking space is no longer a cramped corner.
2. Promote family communication
In the traditional closed kitchen, the kitchen and dining room are independent of each other, and the chef is alone in the kitchen. After making an open kitchen, you can interact with your family sitting in the living room when cooking in the kitchen to enhance your happiness at home; Moreover, if there are children at home, the open kitchen allows you to look after the children while cooking, which is a more suitable space design for full-time mothers to look after their babies at home alone.
3. You don't need a sauna to cook in summer
In summer in southern Guangdong, the temperature of the closed kitchen space will rise when cooking, and the high temperature and steam will make the kitchen like a sauna. After cooking a meal, you will sweat a lot and get soaked.
Second, several problems that cannot be ignored
Although opening up has many advantages, its objective problems make many people flinch.
1, gas management problem
I met fans who decorated their own open kitchen before, but the gas company found it during the annual inspection and cut off the gas supply to his home. Gas companies in different regions have different mandatory specifications for kitchen design, and open kitchen is a design that is not allowed in many regions. If you like the open kitchen very much, first make sure that the local gas company does not prohibit it, and then you can choose the open kitchen design.
2. Oil fume problem
Regarding the problem of oil smoke, you can see whether the kitchen tops, cabinets and other positions in your kitchen are greasy, sticky and greasy. The problem that the open kitchen has to face is the spread of these fumes, especially when you choose a cheap range hood, the furniture and walls of the guest restaurant may be attacked by fumes, which will be a nightmare for the home environment.
3. Visual problems
Although the open kitchen can make the guest kitchen space more spacious as a whole, the integrated space also brings problems: the messy kitchen utensils in the kitchen will be unobstructed in the guest restaurant, making the vision of the home space more messy.
Third, how to choose an open kitchen?
After reading the advantages and disadvantages of open kitchen, in fact, many people should know their choice! The key points to consider are as follows:
1. Do you often cook at home?
Young people nowadays go to work early and come back late every day. Occasionally, I am keen on takeout at home on weekends, and I am too lazy to cook. The kitchen is only a space for cooking occasionally. This situation can completely ignore the problem of oil smoke and sundries, and the open kitchen is perfect.
2. What are the cooking habits?
I usually cook at home, like to fry, like to fry, like to fry. Open kitchens do not recommend this cooking method with huge fumes. Used to steaming, boiling and stewing, these cooking methods produce little oil smoke and can be placed in the open kitchen.
3. Are you diligent in cleaning?
If you like the open kitchen and don't mind doing more cleaning, it's not impossible to choose a high-power range hood and a hard open kitchen.
4. Problems of the Gas Company
Gas companies don't allow open kitchens. They like the design of open kitchens very much. What should I do? We can consider making a glass partition between the kitchen and the guest dining room. When the gas company comes to check, the glass will be closed, so that the opening and closing of the kitchen can be flexibly controlled, and the glass can also be closed when cooking at ordinary times, which can also prevent the oil smoke from overflowing into the guest restaurant area.