Best Kitchen Layout Ideas

The best kitchen layout is the one that works with the home and the people using it. Remodeling provides an opportunity to improve circulation, storage and work areas instead of simply replacing finishes in the same locations.

Galley kitchens

A galley arrangement can make efficient use of a narrow room when work areas and storage are planned carefully.

L-shaped kitchens

An L-shaped layout can open the kitchen toward an adjacent dining or living area and may leave room for an island where dimensions permit.

U-shaped kitchens

A U-shaped kitchen can provide substantial cabinet and countertop space, but aisle dimensions and entry points need careful planning.

Kitchen islands

An island can add preparation space, seating or storage, but only when adequate circulation can be maintained around it.

Opening a kitchen to adjoining rooms

Removing or modifying a wall can change the way a kitchen relates to the rest of a home. Structural conditions must be evaluated before assuming a wall can simply be removed.

See Surdus Remodeling’s Alexandria project, Opening Up a Wall Opens Possibilities in Kitchen Remodel, for an example of a kitchen where opening the wall changed the relationship between the kitchen and living space.