Is a closed kitchen right for your custom home?
Closed kitchens are kitchens that have one or two entrances connecting them to the rest of the house. They are entirely self-contained and have been out of style over the last couple of decades. Open-concept spaces that make the kitchen, living, and dining rooms one space have been in vogue and continue to go strong, but are closed kitchens making a comeback?
Reasons Closed Kitchens Are Coming Back
Contains Strong Kitchen Smells
Closed kitchens are decisively better at containing strong kitchen smells. This design is especially useful if strong odors characterize your cuisine. Aside from a lot of Asian cooking, fried foods can spread oily smells and particles around the home as well.
Improve Indoor Air Quality
The result in closing off the kitchen is better indoor air quality in the rest of your home. Even with a range hood, smells and particles still spread, even to other floors. Your home can be a bit cleaner and healthier with the help of that wall and door.
Limit Your Eating
Cleanliness and fresher air are the main reasons people prefer closed kitchens. However, another reason to close off the kitchen is to make it harder to snack excessively. With food visible and in reach, it’s natural to want to eat more.
Hide Kitchen Messes
People don’t always have time to tidy up after cooking and eating right away. You can close off the messes with a closed kitchen and hide them from guests as well.
Ways to Do the Same with Open Kitchens
Keep the Kitchen Strictly Tidy
The benefit of an open kitchen is the ability to make eating and entertaining one and the same. You can achieve similar results with closed kitchens by being strict about your kitchen cleaning. If you don’t have time to clean up everything at once, a kitchen sink cover that is also extra countertop space can help you out.
Use the Kitchen Exhaust Fan, Etc.
When cooking, a kitchen hood/kitchen exhaust fan is essential and works better than an open window to draw out cooking smells. Remember to maintain your kitchen hood so that it performs its best at all times. You can also use indoor air purifiers and circulate your home’s air to limit smells.
Discipline the Diet
Hide food neatly away in kitchen cabinets so that no snacks, etc., are visible except for what should be kept in the open, like fresh fruits.
Embrace the Aroma
Some food smells are pleasant aromas, like baked bread or chocolate chip cookies or your favorite savory meal. That is a great reason to keep the kitchen open!
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