Galley Kitchen "Creating visual effect and maintaining functionality in this narrow area was my main challenge with this particular project," says Vita Buffa, CKD, CBD, NCIDQ. To satisfy the challenge and give her client a stunning, green galley, Buffa moved an antique table which was beautiful but impeded traffic flow, and relocated the fridge and microwave to the opposite wall in order to make a more visually pleasing view when sitting at the adjacent room.
Galley Kitchen This 8-foot-wide kitchen with Aimee Nemeckay and Terri Crittenden for your Susan Fredman Design Group hangs a turn to the adjacent dining room. To make it look larger, the designers continue the horizontal lines the extended kitchen both in the kerf, or incised line, of their cabinets and the floor. The cupboards reaching the ceiling draw the eye up as well.
Galley Kitchen By removing the two half partitions between the dining room and living space of the 1960s bungalow, designer Nathalie Tremblay managed to expand the kitchen, make an open texture and provide a better layout and traffic flow of the kitchen, living and dining room. And many of the tips she employed to maximize distance in this galley would function nicely for any small kitchen: She utilized 24-inch-deep refrigerator/freezer for space saving and much better traffic flow, created a work "triangle" regardless of the corridor-like shape of the actual space, and chose a simple, black-and-white palette to keep visual clutter to a minimum.
Galley Kitchen To keep this small galley kitchen appearing as great as it functions, Natalia Pierce, AKBD, chose a neutral, earthy palette and installed a comfortable window seat. The flow of light from the adjacent dining area during the pass-through retains the kitchen linked to the remainder of the home and sets hosts connected with guests. Art in the far end wall keeps the kitchen out of appearing as a dead-end.
U-Shaped Kitchen Pre-renovation this kitchen was little and cut off from the rest of the home. Designer Linda Evans, CKD, CBD, CAPS, knocked down the wall between the kitchen and dining room, and flipped into the former into a horseshoe which not only maximizes space but creates a delineation between the kitchen and dining spots.
U-Shaped Kitchen To include additional prep and storage space to this tiny kitchen, Natalia Pierce, AKBD, additional two peninsulas, creating a U-shaped kitchen. A raised bar was added on the sink to divide the site lines throughout the space.
U-Shaped Kitchen As a secondary kitchen on the top floor of a gorgeous art deco home, this distance does not need to be big but it did need to work effectively. Designer Myriem Drainer took the best components of U- shaped and L-shaped kitchens to create this one-of-a kind design. Clean lines and a marble backsplash which extends into the ceiling create an illusion of a wider and brighter space, and small because it is, the counter arrangement supplies amazingly ample dining and prep room.
L-Shaped Kitchen Designer Nathalie Tremblay opened up and proceeded walls to make this L-shaped kitchen/dining area for clients who like to entertain. An L contour keeps the hosts close to their guests while cooking, and enables guests to eat without feeling like they're on top of the stove.
L-Shaped Kitchen This kitchen's long, effective prep area looks like a galley design but is only half of this L-shaped kitchen that turns out a corner for maximum preparation room and eat-in dining. Design by Amy Alper.
L-Shaped Kitchen This kitchen, which won First Place in big kitchen category at NKBA Ontario Design Awards in 2013, utilizes an L-shaped floor plan along with T-configured center island to maximize space, and to create the sleek, masculine look designer Nathalie Tremblay's client asked.
Pentagonal Kitchen It's no secret that squeezing maximum efficiency from a five-sided kitchen with strange angles took a great deal of imagination. Eric Lindroth of Remodel Works Bath and Kitchen transferred walls to expand the ground's footprint beneath the vaulted ceiling, eliminated soffits and construction supports in the loft for the existing rafters, and extended the existing walls to the ceiling.
Curvilinear Kitchen When her customer -- an engineer and metal sculptor -- informed Rhonda Knoche, CMKBD, he loathed symmetry and direct lines, which he wanted a kitchen that could make him grin, she listened. The main prep area expands to adapt kitchen action -- and, occasionally, dancing. The long wall is a bit bowed to satisfy the deeper front of this range, tapering back at either end to the standard 24" deep cabinets. And the kitchen island is an ice-cream-cone shape. "The partition looking toward the entry could have been a direct wall," says Knoche, "but when I threw this client a curve, he had been in the plate."
Wedge-Shaped Kitchen To make the most of the wedge-shaped kitchen, Eric Lindroth of Remodel Works Kitchen and Bath replaced the existing rectangular island with a wedge-shaped one. By echoing the room's perimeter shape, you may keep walking aisles constant, so the room feels balanced and nothing seems forced or mismatched. With its wider end, the island matches all of the homeowner's baking requirements, also offers close proximity to the cooker.
Wedge-Shaped Kitchen That's no optical illusion: This kitchen by Ines Hanl of The Sky's The Limit Style is shaped like a leash. As opposed to fight the strange form, Hanl she played it, and made an intensely angled island and banquette, then decorated the space with a funky '50s vibe. Lesson learned: In an area that flows strangely, it is sometimes best to just go with the flow.
