Kitchen are deemed middle of your home and it requires time to time remodeling to bring a new glimpse. In this presentation USAkitchen has merged together historical past of kitchen development and its various kinds has been talked about in brief. We have explained several types of kitchens and its planning strategies.

1. Kitchen BasicsPlanning and trends
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2. Kitchens are...
• Considered the
control center
• most lived in room
of the house
• most often
remodeled
• strong selling
feature
• 10% of the value
of the home
• remodeling cost
20,000 - 80,000

3. History of the Kitchen
• Open fire throughout most of history within living spaces - later
moved to separate buildings used by slaves/servants
• 1740's Franklin Stove was invented (wood and/or coal)
• 1834 Oberlin Stove
• 1843 Catharine Beecher wrote "A Treatise on Domestic Economy"
which discussed how to design an efficient kitchen.
• 1880 first gas stoves used. Also water, sewer and gas pipes.
• 1893 electric stove introduced but not used until 1930's
• 1912 Christine Frederick believed in Taylorism, a theory of
management that analyzed and synthesized workflows (time and
motion studies). Its main objective was improving economic
efficiency, especially labor productivity.

4. Frankfurt Kitchen
• 1926 First "Fitted Kitchen" designed by
Margarete Lihotzky known as the
Frankfurt Kitchen, which was the prototype
of the built-in kitchen now prevalent in the
western world. Based on the scientific
research by U.S. management expert
Frederick Winslow Taylor and her own
research, Lihotzky used a railroad dining
car kitchen as her model to design a
"housewife's laboratory" using a minimum
of space but offering a maximum of
comfort and equipment to the working
mother. The Frankfurt City Council
eventually installed 10,000 of her mass-
produced, prefabricated kitchens in
newly-built working-class apartments

6. Poggenpohl
Kitchens
• German cabinet manufacturer
founded in 1892 focused on
kitchen furniture
• 1923 the "Ideal" kitchen cabinet
• 1928 "Reform Kitchen"
Interconnecting cabinets with
functional interiors

7. The Modern Kitchen
• Mass produced cabinets during WWII
• Formica countertops
• 1940's saw trend in small and large
electrified appliances such as
blenders, toasters, mixers and
refrigerators and electric ovens.
• 1944 University of Illinois formed the
Building Research Council with the
goal of incorporating state of the art
technology into home building. The
concept of the kitchen work triangle
was developed in the 1950's.

8. When planning a kitchen….
• Build cabinets to
fit the cook
• 36” high
standard
• 24” deep
standard
• 3”
increments
• Build shelves to
fit the supplies
• Understand
anthropometrics

9. Reach Limits

10. Four Kitchen Layouts
• One Wall (pullman or strip)
• Corridor ( galley)
• L- shaped
• U-shaped

11. Work Centers
• Primary work centers
• Cook Center
• Refrigerator Center
• Sink Center
• Secondary work center
• Mix center
• Serving center

12. Work Triangle
•Developed in the 1950’s
•used to evaluate the efficiency of a
kitchen plan.
•A line is drawn from the center of the
sink to the center of the cooking surface
to the center of the refrigerator and then
back to the sink.
•These points are the three major
centers of activity.
•Today’s kitchens often have more than
one triangle

13. Planning Guidelines
• http://www.usakitchen.com/

14. Doorway and walkway clearances
Doorways should be at
least 32” wide and not
more than 24” deep in the
direction of travel.
Walkways (passages between
vertical objects greater than 24”
deep in the direction of travel,
where not more than one is a
work counter or appliance)
should be at least 36” wide.

15. Work aisles clearances
Work aisles (passages between vertical objects, both of which are work
counters or appliances) should be at least 42” wide in one-cook kitchens,
at least 48” in multiple cook kitchens.

16. The work triangle should total 26’ or less with no single leg of the triangle
shorter than 4’ nor longer than 9’. The work triangle should not intersect an
island or peninsula by more than 12”. The triangle is the shortest walking
distance between the refrigerator, primary food preparation sink and
primary cooking surface, measured from the center front of each appliance.
Work triangle

17. Traffic flow should not go through work triangle

18. Avoid door interference

19. Dishwasher placement

21. Kitchen Trends
Storage
Appliances
Styles

22. Cabinetry / Storage / Accessories
• Lazy-Susans
• Drawer inserts
• Pantry
• Tilt-out drawers at sinks
• Roll-out shelves
• Tray dividers for baking sheets
• Recycling/pull out waste baskets
• Spice Racks

23. Storage designed to fit the user

26. Tall towers are used to anchor the end of cabinet run. Towers can
include drawers below and tray dividers above the built-in appliances.

27.  Pull out cutting boards
 Sink tilt-out
 Spice racks
 Plate racks
 Pull out waste bins

28. Accessible pantry designed for easy access.

29. Counter tops, Sinks and Faucets
• Granite, Concrete, Solid Surface
• Stainless counters, tile and
laminate
• Farmhouse sinks (apron fronts)
• Solid surface sinks
• Three “bowl” sink
• Wall mounted faucets
• Pot fillers
• Faucets “all- in- one” sprayer

30. Granite is most popular counter top with an undercount sink. These
sinks are easy to wipe off crumbs into the sink because there is no
raised edges.

31. Solid surfaces create a seamless and contemporary look.

32. Concrete Countertops are unique and can be personalized.

33. Concrete counter tops with integral sinks.

34. Copper farmhouse sinks are very popular and expensive.

35. Teak sinks are a beautiful solution for a clean,
contemporary kitchen.
Pot fillers increase functionality.
Touch control faucets

36. Appliances

37. Appliance Trends
• Refrigerator drawers
• Sinks that are dishwashers
• Dishwasher drawers
• Refrigerators with internet access
• Bright colored appliances (Red,
Blue, Yellow)
• Wine chillers
• Ovens with side opening doors
• Ovens that cool and operate via
phone app

38. Wine coolers
Espresso machines

39. Dishwashing drawers

40. Wood panel appliance doors

41. Wine racks
Warming
drawers
Lighted cabinets

42. New Appliances and trends

43. Kitchen Styles
• Contemporary
• Transitional
• Traditional

44. Contemporary

46. Contemporary

49. Transitional

52. Traditional