Coworking Spaces
Shared Kitchen Furniture Planning for Coworking Spaces
Specify the occupied size, operating clearance and route into the building before choosing furniture by catalogue dimensions.
Explore the ideas
Compare the options
- Set the brief
- Use templates at the size of the actual furniture. Include seated users, open drawers and reclined positions where relevant.
- Compare
- Decide which items need to move independently and which benefit from built-in anchoring.
- Before buying
- Confirm that the largest pieces can turn at the entrance, lift lobby and corridor, or specify assembly in place.
Worked example
A family wants a movable island, but stools and open drawers could occupy the same aisle.
Mock up the island, seated knees and fully extended drawers together; choose a smaller cart if the cook cannot pass while someone sits.
How to test it
Overlay the furniture in its stored and in-use positions, then check both against the measured plan.
Apply it to this space
- Layout
- Set sink, preparation counter, and appliances in a one-way sequence away from the main lounge seating.
- Detail
- Choose easy-clean splash surfaces and place bins and dish drying beside the sink, not in the queue.
- Trade-off
- A larger kitchen improves comfort but reduces rentable work area.
- Simulate two members preparing food
- Check appliance doors do not block the route
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