Kitchen Triangle Rule
Determining your kitchen layout is critical, to making your kitchen work as well as it can. Since the 1950s kitchen layout has worked around the kitchen triangle rule.
What is the kitchen triangle rule?
When designing a kitchen layout, traditionally people talked about the kitchen triangle rule, described as an imaginary straight line drawn from the centre of the sink, to the centre of the cooker top, to the centre of the fridge and finally back to the sink. Getting these units as close together as possible is said to make your kitchen more user friendly:
However in many households, two or more people now share the cooking. Kitchens are growing in size and tend to feature more than three workspaces; therefore the regular kitchen work triangle isn’t always practical.
So now people are talking about kitchen layouts in terms of “zones”. When kitchen space planning, think of a kitchen’s functions and work these into zones in your plan. Food preparation, cooking, serving and washing-up are the four main jobs all kitchens need to fulfil. A kitchen layout with two work triangles (linking the zones) can maintain and direct traffic flow while keeping the cooks from being in each other’s way.
The kitchen work triangle is a helpful tool, don’t let it inhibit you from thinking outside the triangle when it comes to planning your kitchen kitchen layout.
