About Evolution Kitchens & Cabinets

Planning Your Kitchen

Designing a new kitchen is an exciting, yet deeply personal undertaking. Good planning is the key in creating a functional kitchen that is both workable and beautiful.

Evolution Kitchens & Cabinets provide exceptional, end-to-end service to ensure your kitchen gives you lasting satisfaction as well as adding value to the home. The following are some key points to consider when starting your planning process:

Kitchen Layout

There are 5 basic kitchen layouts

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U-shaped kitchen
Versatile, suiting large or small rooms. It is efficient, offering maximum bench and storage space. Ideal for one cook.

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L-shaped kitchen
A workable shape usually integrated into other living areas. Suits long, narrow rooms. Can integrate space for a meals area. Space for more than one cook.

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Island style
Combines any shape kitchen with a separate work bench, creating extra workspace for food preparation, cooking, dining or entertainment yet provides a feeling of openness. Suitable for a large room and allows for more than one cook.

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Single line kitchen layout
Usually needs a minimum of three metres of wall to work efficiently. Best if bench-space is maximised with storage kept overhead and under bench appliances utilised. Perfect for small rooms.

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Galley-style kitchen
Preferred by professional chefs, it allows the most efficient use of space with cabinets down either side of the room. Works best if one end is closed to prevent through traffic and requires good lighting. Ideal where space is limited.

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Assess the space you have to work with as well as how you will use it and who will use it.

The Work Triangle

Work efficiently in your new kitchen

In all kitchens, the placement of three essential fittings either maximises or minimises your workspace efficiency. These fittings are the sink, the refrigerator and the oven/hotplate. Good kitchen designers aim to form a work triangle with the sink along one wall and the fridge and hotplate in the two corners opposite.