The Heart of Your Home: The Future of Kitchens

The heart of your home
The future of kitchens

The modern day kitchen serves as more than a place where meals are made and dishes are washed. Rather, it presents a setting where people come together to reconnect. Following the months of isolation during the pandemic, there was a major shift toward hosting and experimenting in the kitchen – it became a hub for extended family and friends to create memories and experience the unifying journey of cooking a meal with loved ones.

An outstanding kitchen is a versatile one – it must be able to pivot instantaneously between private and entertainment mode – it can be your recluse from the world, but also active and vibrant.

Every element needs to be considered with practicality in mind and have a harmonious marriage between form and function. As the beating heart of the home, it is also an extension of the owner’s personality – a key member of the household all on its own.

Kitchens are an ever evolving space that adapt and change with society’s values and priorities. The contemporary kitchen is inspired by minimalism, resulting in more storage for unsightly elements such as cleaning utensils and cleaning agents. People are now time poor, so you’ll also find easy to maintain surfaces, remote controlled appliances and technology that aims to eradicate inconvenience, liberating extra time for the end user.

The visual design of a kitchen is an important factor that can determine whether your house feels like your home. A mix of materials and textures that are cohesive and speak to the owner’s personality are essential in crafting a comfortable and usable room. Earthy materials help with grounding the space, while timber or organic surfaces pair nicely with well-thought-out natural stone with interesting veining or colours. Metal accents can really lift a space and create visual drama while geometry and unique details help bring a point of interest, and can reveal a lot about a person’s personal taste.

Kitchens are an ever evolving space that adapt and change with society’s values and priorities.

Fawkner House

Good lighting is paramount. Soft lighting helps set the mood, elegant backlights help showcase stone and timber and responsive lighting can be altered to fit mood and events and the sensor-based systems improve hygiene, efficiency and safety.

On the cooking front, clean and nutritious living has also inspired a younger generation to welcome a lifestyle that is born in the kitchen out of clean ingredients. Multi-use appliances like grillers, steam ovens and air fryers have become de rigueur. In line with sustainability focuses in development, kitchens are now focusing on reducing their carbon footprint and this is echoed in the energy efficiency advancements in appliances. The kitchen plays an integral role in the circular economy of the household – growing food, using food, and then making compost with the waste.

Gardenhill

With considerations to space, the kitchen needs to be smarter – innovative utilisation of space is key and every nook needs to be curated for maximum usage and optimisation.

The Grounds of Kew

Provenance Camberwell

Apartment living is becoming increasingly popular as more people move closer to the CBD and metro areas. With considerations to space, the kitchen needs to be smarter – innovative utilisation of space is key and every nook needs to be curated for maximum usage and optimisation. Through clever design in spatial layout or choice of materials, a kitchen can also help open the adjacent space, making it feel more generous. When this is done innovatively a kitchen will integrate seamlessly with the living and dining zones.

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