What should I put in my new kitchen?

[Guest]

Would love to hear about must have Kitchen ideas for things you added into kitchen or butlers that you love and couldn’t be without - eg spice racks or pull our shelving or special cupboard additions etc.

[Peter]

Zip - boiling chilled and sparkling. The best part of our kitchen!

[Grace]

I designed our kitchen to be all drawers which is great. The only cupboard is under the sink. We also love our pull out hand towel/ tea towel rack with a space to store chopping boards below, and we love our pull out spice and oil rack next to the stove. I also love our coffee/tea station with open shelving above for pretty mugs and vintage tins of tea bags, a kettle tucked away on the bench out of the actual kitchen, and a cupboard below for jars of coffee and sugar and long life milk etc.

[Sue]

I put a slim cupboard with adjustable shelves next to my fridge, the depth of the fridge for appliances .. everything has a home.

[Rhianne]

Drawers, drawers, drawers!!

[Sascha]

Double sink without draining board side - use the second sink for drying, so you don't always have a rack of drying dishes on the bench/sink drainer to ruin the look of your beautiful new kitchen!

Paper towel holder in the drawer.

Spot for tea towel/s, especially if you're going for finger pulls - again, otherwise tea towel lying around without a tidy 'spot' to go.

Appliance cupboard with powerpoints.

Bins bins bins - again, don't let them be an afterthought and end up with visible and /or impractical bins.

Under cupboard lighting, with its switch on your main light switch (simplest way is to get plug-in lighting, and get your sparky to link that powerpoint so it is turned on and off by a switch on your main kitchen light switch panel).

Powerpoints in all the right places, but not too visible! If you're having a broom cupboard, put one in there for charging eg your stick vac.

[Rebecca]

- A stainless steel knife wall Holder.
- tea and coffee station like floating shelf so it’s off the bench.
- draws instead of cupboards (Can fit more stuff in and have full back access)
- microwave cupboard (clears bench space)
- corner access cupboards. (So u can access it other wise waste of space)
- induction cook top, heat regulation is excellent.
- bin pull out draw
- dishwasher draws. Easy access
- pull down tap can clean everything.

[Jay]

Drawers! So easy to get to everything, incl a drawer in drawer beside the stove for spices.

The other things I love that were a splurge includes the fully integrated dishwasher and thr solid brass handles. Our island is only 2.5m across and the dishwasher sits within that, it makes a huge difference to how seamless and spacious the kitchen looks having the dishwasher fully integrated. And the brass handles have a nice chunky feel to them, easy to grab and help create the look of the space.

We also went with a stone splashback to make the space feel larger, and it works.

An essential for me was having bulkheads. They make the kitchen look more finished and easier to keep clean.

[Donna]

Drawers, drawers and more drawers. Use drawers wherever possible, so much easier to access than cupboards.