Perfect Kitchen: 10 Pro Tips for Its Layout

With the help of LORENA experts, we tell how to make a beautiful and functional kitchen.

Use space to the maximum

Order a cabinet system with storage up to the ceiling — it will hold everything you need. For easy access to upper cabinets, provide a special mobile ladder.

Kitchen Cabinet INDUSTRY or do without upper cabinets. If you want to add air to the room and visually expand the kitchen. By the way, if you use open shelves, it's easier to understand where everything is.

Kitchen Cabinet TRED

Organize the workspace according to your habits. If you often bake, you need additional surface for rolling out dough and a drawer for baking trays. If you cook a lot, place pans and pots in pull-out drawers near the stove.

But if frequent cooking is not your thing, you can do away with upper cabinets and replace them with open shelves or functional niches.

Drawer Cabinet. Kitchen Cabinet NOVA

Ensure that the kitchen is safe. Check that the kitchen cabinet is made of environmentally safe materials — for this, ask sellers for relevant certificates. If particle board material is used in manufacturing, its safety class must be high — E1.

Make the kitchen child-safe: for example, install a radius countertop — its corners are maximally rounded. Also pay attention to high-quality hardware that won't injure anyone.

Kitchen Cabinet DUNA

Choose materials that are easy to maintain. Easy to care for and resistant to mechanical impact — as well as exposure to steam, moisture, high temperature, and UV rays.

It's convenient when you can clean the cabinet fronts and countertops using cleaning agents. For example, modern materials like eco-shpon visually and tactilely mimic solid wood fronts but are much easier to maintain than the latter.

Kitchen Cabinet MANETTI

Increase the working area with a kitchen island. If space allows, place a kitchen island. It can combine a cooktop and oven cabinet, household appliances, a storage area for kitchen tools, and replace an additional work surface. You'll definitely have room to move around in the kitchen.

Kitchen Cabinet INTEGO

Create convenient working lighting. When cooking in the dark, light from a chandelier remains behind your back — it feels like you're preparing food in semi-darkness. To solve this issue, use LED lights under over-the-door cabinets.

Under-cabinet lighting that activates when the cabinet opens will let you easily find necessary items even in darkness. Warm light in glass-fronted cabinets makes the kitchen even cozier.

Kitchen Cabinet TRED & VIVA

Plan the number and placement of outlets. During project creation, it's important to estimate the location of household appliances to ensure sufficient number of outlets. Several household outlets will also be needed for connecting a kettle, coffee machine, blender, and other appliances.

Kitchen Cabinet UNO

Choose a wear-resistant countertop. The countertop should be practical and match your lifestyle. A modern option is an Aqualine countertop with increased water resistance. It doesn't need polishing, and the average lifespan is 10–15 years.

Kitchen Cabinet KOVADO

Find a design that suits you personally. Want to create a countryside atmosphere at home or prefer a loft interior — consider this when choosing a kitchen cabinet design.

You can create a sketch of your kitchen together with a professional designer in the store or do it yourself using LORENA's 3D constructor.

Kitchen Cabinet ELEGANT