How Do You Remodel A Kitchen With An Open Floor Plan?
Kitchens used to be work zones that were hidden from guests. Now, a kitchen is the center of a home where guests are invited. Because of this change, the kitchen has to perform even more functions today than it did in years past. It isn’t enough for a kitchen to serve basic cooking needs, today’s kitchen needs to serve the eye visually, provide adequate room for more than one cook and be an area for visitors to sit and be in the middle of the home. When a guest is invited into the kitchen, it represents the deepest expression of familiarity and gesture of welcome from the homeowner to the visitor. To meet all of these needs the kitchen has evolved into an open and transformed space. Older, closed-in kitchens are often being remodeled with an open floor plan. This requires a good bit of planning and design but the value and benefits of the improved design are often worth the investment. Measure the existing kitchen and mark on the graph paper the location of the walls. The scale should
