How to organise a kitchen with good design | News | Architonic

First, categorise items based on how often, and for what purpose, they’re used. Then, position them closest to where they’re needed. Keeping food and prepware near the counter, cookware beside the hob and tableware pointed at the table sounds simple and obvious and it is but keeping to the system is not.

At the Klinkers’ family vacation apartment in Barcelona, the kitchen has been naturally divided from the rest of the open space by applying a central strip of terracotta through the floor plan. With little room to store the few objects required for a short stay, the Californian family are quickly reminded where things go, with cupboards on the outer edges of the kitchen units kept chromatically separated.