The kitchen is one of the busiest parts of your home, which is why making it more ergonomic will greatly increase its value. Our interior and exterior remodeling specialists at STL Design and Build have a few ideas that will improve the way your kitchen functions, so feel free to try these out when you have the chance.
Adjust Your Counter’s Height
Your kitchen’s countertops also serve as your working areas, so having them too high or too low can be quite impractical. By having your countertops remodeled to anywhere between 34 to 37 inches, you will have countertops that are just the right height for general purposes.
Get Rid of Cabinet Doors for Drawers
Kitchen cabinets provide a lot of necessary storage space, but using those means having to either crouch down or rise up onto your tiptoes to get access to your items. Exterior and kitchen remodeling experts like us can change your cabinets into drawers instead of doors that will allow you to get items even stored at the back of your kitchen storage.
Switch to Skid-Free Flooring
Kitchen activities usually involve a lot of cutting and handling of hot foods and liquids. With that in mind, you should make the kitchen floor safer by switching to materials that will give your foot the traction it needs to help prevent slipping. Rubber and wood floor panels are perfect for this.
Extend Your Kitchen Outdoors
If you find yourself needing more kitchen area, you can always take part of it outside. With help from a professional deck builder like us, you can have a kitchen deck that can house some of the more rugged or bulkier aspects of your kitchen so they don’t have to compete with precious indoor kitchen space. Good examples would be grilling items and storage for bulkier pots and pans.
Get a more convenient kitchen design with help from our experts at STL Design and Build. You can call us at (314) 329-9428 or fill out this contact form to request an estimate.