Co-living homes
Shared kitchen Work Zones for Co-living homes
Arrange preparation, cooking and washing around the way meals are actually made, including more than one cook.
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Plan in this order
- Map the route from food storage to preparation, cooking and serving.
- Keep landing surfaces beside the appliances and sink that need them.
- Test two people working at once and remove crossing paths where possible.
Worked example
Two cooks make breakfast together, but one must cross behind the other to reach the refrigerator.
Map the actual food-to-prep-to-cook sequence and move the most-used ingredients closer to prep, leaving a separate pass-through.
How to test it
Rehearse a typical meal with cabinet doors and appliance fronts open.
Apply it to this space
- Layout
- Separate prep, cooking and washing zones; assign clearly marked personal storage away from shared staples.
- Detail
- Use durable, easy-clean surfaces and task lighting across the full counter run.
- Trade-off
- More individual cupboards improve fairness but reduce space for shared cookware.
- Simulate two people preparing meals
- Check labeling and cleaning access
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