How to choose your home kitchen? Here are the best advice from the architect

How to choose the kitchen for your home? This is the question of many people who are looking for advice and directions for the purchase of the kitchen to prepare in their living spaces.

Choosing the kitchen top that best suits your needs and requirements can sometimes become a difficult operation. Is it better to prefer functionality or aesthetics? And where to buy a kitchen at a good price? We try to answer these questions exhaustively: continue reading our practical guide to kitchens and the main models available on the market.

Kitchen tips: brands and models

When choosing the perfect kitchen for your needs, it is always good to keep your habits in mind, especially considering your usual use of the kitchen. Your real needs are in fact the first element and yardstick to consider when buying a kitchen.

Today the market offers us many brands and models of kitchens, able to meet the most varied needs and requirements, both from a practical point of view and in terms of style and design.

There are many examples and standards of linear kitchens available on the market today. You can choose to buy a kitchen in laminate, hpl, quartz, stoneware, ceramic, okite, corian, kenix, krion, kerlite and finally dekton.

Due to the vastness of kitchen models from which it is possible to choose, the purchase of this furniture becomes a real dilemma for many people. Here are some important cues for orienting oneself in the purchase of a contemporary kitchen.

Which kitchen to buy? Here are the reference trends

As pointed out in the previous paragraph, the wide range of kitchens and their respective models available on the market are really many: for this reason it is necessary to make some clarifications in order to correctly orient oneself in the purchase.

Precisely because of the vast range of kitchen models available on the market, most users decide to rely on the advice of a professional architect, interior designer or interior designer to purchase this furniture.

As far as the main trends and trends of the moment in terms of kitchens are concerned, the year 2020 is certainly characterised by the particular success of extremely minimalist, but increasingly functional and organised furniture.

Contemporary kitchens have fewer and fewer decorative elements, for lines that are increasingly simple and minimalist: even for kitchens, minimalist design in 2020 is the greatest. Great attention is paid to the materials with which the furniture is made. As far as shapes are concerned, there is an increasing tendency towards simplification. These are the main trends that also influence the most important kitchen brands, both nationally and internationally: in essence, modern kitchens are becoming more and more subtle and characterized by an essential design.

Contemporary kitchens: minimalist and technological

In addition to the essentiality that characterizes the design of contemporary kitchens, they are increasingly characterized by automation and advanced technology. Technology today represents a great strength of modern and contemporary kitchens.

Here are the main stylistic and technological elements that characterise contemporary kitchens:

• Cooking tops increasingly integrated into the top.
• More and more technological and performing retractable hoods.
• Sinks that form a whole with the kitchen top.
• Presence of technologically advanced ovens that make it possible to operate two cooking programmes at the same time.
• Intelligent refrigerators, able to communicate and interact with the other appliances in the house. Modern refrigerators are also able to store recipes and send notifications to the user regarding temperature and other parameters.

Better a kitchen with wall units or without wall units?

Many people today wonder before buying a kitchen whether it is better to have a model with wall units or without them. In this regard, we would like to underline how a trend in recent years is to prefer the purchase of kitchens without wall units. Today the market offers many models of monobloc kitchens, sometimes particularly economical.

The choice of the presence of wall units or not in the kitchen will depend mainly on how we intend to organize our spaces and in particular the storage of objects and tools in our kitchen. Generally we can say that contemporary kitchens are characterised by a large worktop and the classic refrigerator-oven column.

Obviously there are people who prefer the choice of kitchen furniture without appliances. In some furnishing circumstances, especially in the presence of windows or openings that are not always regular, it is better to avoid top cupboard compositions in order to make the most of the space available.

The importance of the quality of the materials that make up the kitchen

Regardless of the style and design that will characterize the kitchen you choose to prepare in your spaces, our advice before finalizing your purchase is to pay the utmost attention to the quality of the materials with which the furniture has been made.

Contemporary kitchens are increasingly made with the help of material materials (less and less lacquered): open-pore wood, resin and cement. Kitchens made of stainless steel are always very trendy. Among the new trends that have characterized the realization of kitchens in the year 2020 there is the use of glass: this material is mainly used for the production of columns and pantries that become so transparent and well lit inside them. Obviously this condition requires a great organization of the products and objects inside the glass cupboards.

Our country is in contrast to other European countries, where lacquered kitchens are no longer in fashion. In Italy, on the other hand, the total white kitchen remains a must and synonymous with great style and elegance.

As for the preferred nuances for floors, the prevailing colours are grey and beige, or alternatively the classic wood-effect stoneware, always extremely practical and functional.

L-shaped kitchen or parallel kitchen?

Another very popular question before buying a kitchen is: is an L-shaped or parallel kitchen better?

To answer this question worthily, let's start by saying that there are many Italians who love and prefer island or peninsula kitchens and therefore with an L-shaped layout. Having said that, the best kitchen layout is always the one that best suits the characteristics of the room.

To give some examples, in an open space characterized by a discreetly large size, it will be possible to install a kitchen with an island or peninsula. On the contrary, in long and narrow furnishing contexts, it is better to prefer the installation of a kitchen with a linear structure, especially if you have a shallow room.

All lovers of the island kitchen must be aware that when designing this layout it is absolutely necessary to have a discreet space in their rooms, between the two walls, so that they can move freely and comfortably around the perimeter of the kitchen.

Choice of kitchen colours

As pointed out in the previous paragraphs, in our country it is very fashionable to choose white kitchens: the latter characterized the kitchens inspired by the Scandinavian style a few years ago.

Some people prefer a kitchen that is able to break the colour with the use of different materials: a classic example is the white that makes up the furniture and the wood colour that distinguishes the wall units.

The trends for the year 2020 have seen the introduction of new colours and hues for contemporary kitchens, such as sage green, gold, clay, ultramarine dark blue, petrol, ginger and finally rope.

As far as the choice of materials for the construction of kitchens is concerned, the latest trends of the moment are represented by the use of woods characterised by the presence of decidedly hollowed-out veins, cement and finally resins.