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Open kitchen design
An excellent home design company needs to start from the customer's perspective and take into account both the artistry and practicality of the design when proposing home decoration plans to customers, in order to effectively improve the quality of life of customers and create a safe and happy home.
3 major guarantees
6 advantages of open kitchen design
Save space
An open kitchen can effectively reduce the use of partition walls, which not only saves space but also makes the unit more practical and flexible. The space freed up by the open kitchen can be used as a dining table or as a passage as needed. This open kitchen design can also enhance the visual sense of spaciousness within the home, making the entire space look more transparent and bright.
Open and beautiful
The open design of open kitchen decoration can expand the field of vision and enhance the sense of space. The design and material selection of open kitchen cabinets can be coordinated with the design of the living room and dining room, making the styles of the two more unified and beautiful, and making the planning full of coordination.
Increase time with family members
An open kitchen decoration also allows family members to easily interact and communicate during cooking activities. Family members can share cooking skills and experiences in the open kitchen and create delicious food together. The open kitchen design can enhance interaction and mutual care among family members and strengthen family cohesion. In addition, through the interaction and communication during the open kitchen cooking process, family members can enhance their understanding and love of food and cooking.
Property prices are more affordable
An open kitchen can effectively reduce the use of partition walls, which not only saves space but also makes the unit more practical and flexible. The space freed up by the open kitchen can be used as a dining table or as a passage as needed. This open kitchen design can also enhance the visual sense of spaciousness within the home, making the entire space look more transparent and bright.
More light
When designing an open kitchen, we generally ensure that natural light enters the open kitchen through the windows to make the entire living space brighter. However, natural light can also add points to the open kitchen design.
Increase building value
In the past decade, open kitchen design has been regarded as a necessary element to increase the sense of modernity. Therefore, many open kitchen designers will add this element to new or renovated buildings to increase the attractiveness of the house and improve its value.
3 major guarantees
6 advantages of open kitchen design
Save space
An open kitchen can effectively reduce the use of partition walls, which not only saves space but also makes the unit more practical and flexible. The space freed up by the open kitchen can be used as a dining table or as a passage as needed. This open kitchen design can also enhance the visual sense of spaciousness within the home, making the entire space look more transparent and bright.
Open up the beauty
The open design of the open kitchen decoration can expand the field of vision and enhance the sense of space. The design and material selection of the open kitchen cabinet can be coordinated with the living and dining room design, making the styles of the two more unified and beautiful, and making the planning full of coordination.
Increase time with family
Open kitchen decoration also allows family members to interact and communicate easily during cooking activities. Family members can share cooking skills and experiences in the open kitchen and create delicious food together. The design of the open kitchen can enhance the interaction and mutual care between family members and strengthen family cohesion. In addition, through the interaction and communication during the cooking process in the open kitchen, family members can also enhance their understanding and love of food and cooking.
The property price is relatively affordable
An open kitchen can effectively reduce the use of partition walls, which not only saves space but also makes the unit more practical and flexible. The space freed up by the open kitchen can be used as a dining table or a passage as needed. This open kitchen design can also enhance the visual sense of spaciousness in the home, making the entire space look more transparent and bright.
More light
When designing an open kitchen, we generally ensure that natural light enters the open kitchen from the window to make the entire living space brighter. However, natural light can also add points to the open kitchen design.
Increase the value of your property
In the past decade, open kitchen design has been regarded as an essential element to increase the sense of modernity. Therefore, many open kitchen designers will add this element to new or renovated buildings to increase the attractiveness of the house and improve its value.
4 Key Points of Open Kitchen
4 key points to pay attention to when using open kitchen decoration
When cooking in an open kitchen, the fumes will spread to every corner of the house, creating an unpleasant smell and leaving greasy stains on furniture and walls, making them difficult to clean. Long-term accumulation of oil smoke will also cause furniture and walls to turn yellow, affecting the entire open kitchen design. To reduce these problems, consider installing a higher-power range hood when designing an open kitchen. These devices can effectively reduce the absorption of oil smoke emitted from open kitchens and prevent space pollution. In addition, when cooking in an open kitchen, you can also pay attention to controlling the generation of oil smoke to avoid oil smoke polluting the living space. Regularly cleaning the open kitchen and furniture can also effectively prevent oil stains from adhering to the walls and furniture.
Compared with a semi-open kitchen, an open kitchen design lacks partitions and is more easily accessible to children, which may hinder the cooking activities of kitchen users and may also cause accidents in the kitchen, creating dangers. An open kitchen may seem surrounded by dangers such as cooking stoves, knives and hot water. To prevent these problems, consider installing safety guards when designing an open kitchen and placing dangerous items out of reach of children.
Using an open kitchen design requires long-term maintenance of cleanliness. When people enter a unit with an open kitchen, the clutter in the kitchen is clearly visible. The cleanliness of an open kitchen will directly affect the overall feeling of the home space. Although most open kitchen cases are very neat and beautiful, in daily life, if you use open kitchens frequently, it is indeed difficult to avoid the presence of debris or stains, and there may be a certain discrepancy between ideal and reality.
Generally speaking, open kitchens have fewer kitchen cabinets because there are no walls, so there is no place to hang sundries, and it is more difficult to store some larger upright utensils in an open kitchen, such as brooms, mops and umbrellas.
What is a semi open kitchen?
What is a semi-open kitchen?
The so-called semi-open kitchen design refers to separating the kitchen and living room by non-traditional methods, such as using glass, sliding doors, half-height walls, low cabinets and center islands. A semi-open kitchen retains the open nature of an open kitchen while also avoiding the problems associated with some open kitchen designs. Therefore, more and more people prefer to use semi-open kitchen solutions.
The 3 benefits of a semi open kitchen
3 benefits of semi-open kitchen
1. Can solve some problems of open kitchen design:
A semi-open kitchen uses glass, sliding doors or half-height walls to separate the kitchen and living room, which can reduce the spread of cooking fumes to other parts of the home and avoid filling the house with unpleasant odors. The use of low cabinets and center island designs can increase the overall storage space and solve the inherent shortcomings of open kitchen decoration.
2. The kitchen design is also beautiful and open:
Although it is called a semi-open kitchen, it can still achieve the beauty and fashion effect of an open kitchen. Designers can put various different design items on the partitions or furniture of the semi-open kitchen, such as using different kinds of glass, or using different stones on the center island countertop.
3. Create multifunctional spaces:
The partitions used in a semi-open kitchen can be activated into a multi-purpose space. When designing a semi-open kitchen, guests can request to convert the bar into a dining area or use furniture to provide additional storage space for the residence.
Vanguard semi-open and open kitchen design services
We will provide semi-open and open kitchen design solutions that meet the needs of guests, allowing guests to choose their favorite style and design. Through meticulous customized services, we are able to meet guests’ various expectations for space transformation, allowing them to enjoy a perfect quality of life while having a beautiful and practical semi-open or open kitchen. Our services can achieve the following results:
Make good use of different materials:
As a professional designer and construction team, we understand the advantages and disadvantages of different materials and will apply them appropriately in semi-open and open kitchen decoration. When choosing a semi-open kitchen compartment, you don’t necessarily have to limit yourself to bricks. For example, if the homeowner wants to retain the sense of space in an open kitchen while blocking out fumes, our designers may recommend using glass partitions when planning an open kitchen renovation. However, there are many types of glass materials. Our designers will answer and provide suggestions on which one to choose and how to match them in a semi-open or open kitchen.
Highest Benefit:
When you move into a new building, kitchen cabinets and appliances are already included. Our semi-open kitchen renovation service can add partitions to the open kitchen without damaging the original kitchen cabinets and appliances. The entire process does not require the removal of kitchen cabinets and appliances, let alone overturning and rebuilding. This saves you time and money.
Unique style:
Fengzhuyi understands that semi-open or open kitchen decoration is indeed beautiful and can echo the style of the whole house. Therefore, our designers will add partitions according to the overall style and combine kitchen design elements, such as choosing suitable lighting, wall materials, kitchen utensils, etc., to create a perfect kitchen atmosphere through perfect semi-open and open kitchen decoration planning.
Quality service:
Fengshui attaches great importance to the ideal quality of all finished products, but also understands the importance of customers to the semi-open and open kitchen decoration process. Our professional semi-open and open kitchen designers, construction teams and all-round assistants will provide guests with safe and considerate services, and provide three major guarantees, including quotation guarantee, construction period guarantee and service guarantee, to help you complete your ideal open or semi-open kitchen design in all aspects.
Frequently Asked Questions
Semi-open and open kitchen design – FAQ
1. Do my family members need to temporarily move out of the house during the renovation of a semi-open or open kitchen?
The main reason why open or semi-open kitchens are popular in Hong Kong is that they can enhance the sense of space. Hong Kong has a small land area and a large population. Every inch of land is valuable. Of course, we want to make full use of every space through open kitchen design. In addition, using an open kitchen can effectively enhance the interaction between family members. Therefore, many families in Hong Kong will use this type of kitchen. Whether it is an open or semi-open kitchen, we generally do not recommend guests to stay at home during the construction period.
Most open kitchen decorations require the following construction procedures, such as removing walls, changing the location of water and electricity, and replacing floors. This series of work will generate dust and noise, which is likely to affect the quality of life. Therefore, we recommend that guests move to other places to live during the construction period of the open kitchen decoration to avoid unnecessary dangers. If the guest’s open kitchen renovation only makes some minor changes, such as changing the cabinets, gas stoves and other equipment, generally speaking, there is no problem for the guest to continue to stay at home. In addition, most semi-open kitchens are connected to the dining room, but the partition is reserved in the design to block the fumes from the kitchen when in use. During the semi-open kitchen renovation, the guest can stay at home without causing too much interference. Whether it is an open kitchen or a semi-open kitchen, we still need to evaluate whether the guest can stay at home based on the actual situation.
2. Should I choose an open or semi-open kitchen?
According to our experience, in addition to choosing a semi-open or open kitchen based on personal preferences, it is also necessary to consider living space and personal future plans.
First of all, it is the sense of space. It is undeniable that an open kitchen can increase the sense of space in the living environment. For many Hong Kong people, it is especially important to create a comfortable and spacious feeling in a small space. Then there is the interaction between family members. An open kitchen effectively promotes communication between family members, and you can still chat while cooking. A major advantage of a semi-open kitchen is that there is a certain degree of isolation to prevent the smell emitted when the kitchen is in use from spreading to other rooms. Whether it is an open or semi-open kitchen, the final choice must be determined based on the actual size of the space, customer needs and cost.
3. What should you pay attention to before decorating an open kitchen?
Many customers think that an open kitchen is just a matter of demolishing the original wall, but in fact, reconstruction requires a detailed assessment by the Vanguard professional team, including whether the work involves the structural walls of the building, whether it affects the water, electricity, gas and other pipes in the kitchen, and whether the open kitchen design will affect the layout and planning of the living and dining room. For example, if the original kitchen is converted into an open kitchen or a semi-open kitchen, will the only wall where the TV can be hung be demolished, thereby affecting the normal use of the living room. Finally, there is the consideration of safety. For example, if the kitchen is changed to an open kitchen or a semi-open kitchen, it will be safer for guests to use an induction cooker instead of an open flame stove. At the same time, we must also consider whether the stove head is too close to the sofa, dining table and other places where people stay for a long time. This will also bring many hidden dangers.
4. Does choosing a semi-open kitchen mean there will be more storage space?
In most cases, we will first understand the needs of the customer before we carry out the semi-open kitchen decoration, such as the design style of the semi-open kitchen and the practical use of the furniture as a partition. Many customers use semi-open kitchens for the purpose of adding storage or display space, so we recommend using more functional furniture as partitions. The advantage of a semi-open kitchen is not only convenient for storage, but also can provide more storage space, which is especially suitable for the living environment in Hong Kong.
5. What are the decoration and design styles for open kitchens?
There are numerous styles of open kitchen decoration design. Among them, it is worth mentioning that the modern style adopted by many customers. The entire open kitchen design will be based on simple lines, using smoother building materials such as marble and quartz stone. At the same time, the open kitchen can also choose warm-toned lighting design. Another common style for open kitchen decoration is the Mediterranean style. This type of open kitchen will be based on bright colors, which makes people full of vitality. The open kitchen design will also use a large number of colored tiles and plant decorations to create a Mediterranean style.
Regardless of the type of open kitchen decoration adopted by the customer, we will recommend that the open kitchen be matched with the main style of the home to make the overall feeling more unified.
6. How to solve the problem of oil smoke in an open kitchen?
We have encountered many customers asking about the oil smoke problem in open kitchens. From our perspective, there are actually many solutions.
One of the solutions is to add a sliding door to the open kitchen. There are many sliding doors on the market, and customers do not have to worry about affecting the overall appearance of the residence due to the addition of sliding doors. Sliding doors can be added outside the open kitchen or outside the dining area, and can also separate the dining room and the living room. Another thing is to choose a suitable range hood for the open kitchen, or a range hood with stronger wind power, because the suction power is relatively high, which effectively blocks the oil smoke from the open and semi-open kitchens to other places in the home. The ventilation position of an open kitchen is also very important. When cooking, open the windows and exhaust fan next to it to allow air circulation and exhaust the fumes outside the house. There are also many home appliances on the market that are friendly to open and semi-open kitchens. For example, if the owner wants to fry food, he can use an air fryer instead of deep frying to reduce the occurrence of high fumes.
7. What are the options for sliding door designs for open kitchens?
The relatively cheaper open kitchen sliding door design is an opaque style, which can also completely hide the kitchen. Another is the glass transparent sliding door, which can retain the sense of space of the whole house without losing its beauty. Finally, the open kitchen uses a movable screen sliding door, which guests can close or move to other places for partitioning at will, which also effectively reduces the fumes from the open kitchen from spreading to other places in the room.
