If you’re looking for a kitchen designer, Manchester has quite a few, having recently gained quite a reputation over the past few years for innovative and practical kitchen designs. If your kitchen is looking a little tired, a little past its prime and is failing to live up to your expectations or needs any longer, then it might be time to have a look at some of the newly designed kitchens Manchester based showrooms have to offer.
The old adage that you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs has never been more apt, because what many of the kitchen designers have been doing lately is to break up our traditional ideas and assumptions about kitchen designs, and to rewrite the rulebook. This isn’t just because the kitchen designers need to justify their incomes or existence. The truth is that many of the traditional kitchen designs we see available today have been designed along the exact same basic principles as those being created 20 years ago.
Perhaps even further back.
The differences have often largely been superficial, with attention being given to things such as the materials used in making the kitchen worktops, the design and installation of cookers and built in appliances, the sort of tiles available and the design and look of kitchen cupboards. It all looks nice, but really it’s about as relevant to kitchen design as changing your hairstyle is to losing weight. It might make you look a little better, but it does nothing whatever to tackle the real problem.
So as far as kitchen design is concerned, what is the real problem? When you stop and think for a moment about how we use our kitchens, it’s incredibly different to how we were using our kitchens twenty odd years ago.
Today kitchens are much more dynamic environments to begin with, and in many homes they’re about the most used room in the house. As more people have gone for extensions, open plan kitchens and kitchen diners, the amount of space has increased dramatically.
Now they’re places where the family eats, where you may even entertain at dinner parties, or simply have a friend over for a chat over a coffee. They’re somewhere you might sit to work out the budget, or help the children with their homework. Oh yes, and of course you may even cook in the kitchen too! But even this is only one part of the problem, because another issue is that the tools we use in our kitchen have multiplied in both number and size.
Today the average kitchen has items such as microwaves, toasters, kettles, food processors, blenders and even coffee machines. The number of tools and appliances has grown tremendously, resulting in a decreased amount of space. More of our appliances such as sandwich toasters and blenders end up in cupboards, taking up vast amounts of space.
Then there are the supermarkets compounding the problem. Twenty years ago you could walk into a supermarket and buy a single can of beans, one packet of crisps and a can of beer. Today you’re usually forced to buy cans of beans in packs of four, with a buy three get one free offer that sees you staggering back with twelve cans of beans, crisps often seem to come in packs of 18 or 24, and as for the beer, you’ll be lucky to find anything smaller than a box of a dozen cans. All of which takes up yet more space in the kitchen.
So we have the problem of greater use, with reduced space – not ideal by any means. Which is why the kitchen designers in Manchester have been ripping up the rulebook and creating kitchen designs for the sort of kitchen we actually need today. For innovative solutions to the problems you didn’t even realise you had, why not take a look at the modern kitchens Manchester based showrooms can offer?
