Villas
Kitchen Work Zones for Villas
Arrange preparation, cooking and washing around the way meals are actually made, including more than one cook.
Explore the ideas
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 the heavy cooking run from a breakfast counter and provide a short route to dining and patio.
- Detail
- Use task lighting at prep zones and durable finishes where garden traffic enters.
- Trade-off
- A large island creates gathering space but may lengthen the cook’s work route.
- Walk the prep-to-dining route
- Check sun and heat at counters
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