Kitchens by Riland

Kitchen is a room or part of a room which is used for cooking purpose. Kitchen is a prominent place in a house and designing a kitchen consumes lot of thought, effort, time and money. There are many factors which are considered while designing or renovating a kitchen. The storage space needed for the household, the life style of the people residing in the house, the budget available, the equipments to be installed and aesthetic theme the people have in their mind are a few factors that are considered while planning for a kitchen. Modern technologies have provided with a vast range of options across the world for designing the kitchen. Be it designs like island kitchen, L – Shaped kitchen, modular kitchen, French Country Kitchen, Shaker Kitchen or be it kitchen cabinets or be it kitchen equipments or materials used for designing the kitchen, the list is endless.

The Tuscan Kitchen Design embeds the outdoors within the inside of the kitchen. It probably is considered to be very romantic design with colour shades of earth’s natural tones. Tuscan is a place in Italy and the style originates from there. In Tuscany, the whole family tend to cook and eat together. Hence the Tuscan style, there will be lot of free space for the whole family to move around freely. The French Country Kitchen designs includes large pieces of furniture mainly light coloured wood and are decorated with ornate carvings. They represent the country living style which is rustic, warm and old, typical of French farmhouses. The usage of ceramic or terracotta tiles, rustic urns, hand painted European ceramics and pottery accents are prominently visible in this kind of kitchen designs.

The Island Kitchen design has a stand-alone platform in the middle of the kitchen along with the other cabinets mounted in the walls, which adds extra space and ensures better functionality. It is the most popular design and it helps as an extension to the living room, enabling the socialisation process when talking to the guests and cooking has to take place simultaneously. The Modular Kitchen designs are arrangements of the entire kitchen related furniture and fixtures in a systematic and orderly manner so the kitchen tasks are easier to handle. These designs are very flexible, which are designed to suit to the space and the preference of the people residing in the house. They are standardised, pre- set and when ordered, they are purchased and assembled to the room.