Mums: take your kitchens back!
Even if you have spent a lot of time and money on the decor of your kitchen, it will not be a pleasant environment in which to cook if it is cluttered or used for more tasks other than just cooking. De-clutter your kitchen to lower the chore factor and restore the joy of preparing food at home.
It may be tempting to host the array of designer worktop appliances you own across your different kitchen surfaces but clear surfaces make a kitchen look cleaner and more hygienic and are practical for purposes of cooking since vast space is always available.
Store the majority of appliances like food mixers, Panini toasters and coffee machines away, perhaps leaving just one very special device on display.
If you have the option (or in fact, the room) try and keep laundry machines like washing machines and tumble dryers out of the kitchen. Regularly, clothes can end up loitering in the kitchen, which is neither convenient or an attractive look. If you lack the space for a separate laundry room, you may wish to invest in an integrated washing machine and dryer, which are seamlessly built and hidden away into the rest of your kitchen units. Other appliances such as dishwashers and fridges are also available integrated.
Dining tables are obviously great for family meal times and social events but it may be worth getting hold of easily collapsible ones if you lack a separate dining room and it is a tight squeeze with them constantly present in your kitchen.
Anything that shouldn’t be stored in the kitchen should be removed. When members of my big family enter our home, their first stop is almost always the kitchen for drinks and refreshments and as such, shoes, school bags, coats and even my brother motorcycle helmet get dumped within the kitchens confines.
