Archive for August, 2009
So, what’s your question?
You need to hire a Food Service Planner or Kitchen Consultant and then, an Architect. The biggest trick with commercial kitchens is the equipment.
* Obviously, the equipment required for your place follows what menu you plan to offer.
* Once your equipment is generically determined ("fry station", "range", "hood"), you should contact a dealer in Food Service Equipment. Almost no one buys this stuff brand new and the good-used equipment market is a zoo unless you do it everyday.
* Hand them the list of equipment you need and answer their questions about volume of meals you anticipate serving each day (determines the size of the units).
* While they are searching the planet for your equipment, go hire an architect. Show the architect the building or space where you intend to put the kitchen and let them measure out the existing condition.
* About the time the Architect finishes drawing the existing space, the Equipment Planner will have some "cut sheets" ready for you. "Cut sheets" are catalog cuts of each piece of equipment that he found for you. You’ll review them with the Equip Planner and make adjustments (2 of them, larger this, smaller that). He’ll revise the package of cut sheets and you need to take that to the Architect.
* The Architect will layout your new kitchen using the equipment cut sheets. You review, modify & he revises until everyone is happy with the plan.
* Once the design is done, a schedule of the project needs to be developed so equipment doesn’t arrive too early and sit in the rain in the parking lot, etc. With agreement of this "Project Plan" (layout, schedule and cost outline), everyone can begin.
* The Architect may bring in a Kitchen Consultant to draw the plans and coordinate electrical or gas or water to each location of each piece of equipment, while the Architect handles demo, new walls, ventilation and overhead beams to hold the hood, etc. The Architect will also handle the code & local regulatory agency (Building Dept) to make sure permits get approved on time.
* Plans are drawn, permits secured, Contractors hired and, at some point in coordination with the schedule, you’ll need to finish with the Equipment Planner by ordering and paying for the equipment to be shipped.
* Ideally, the equipment arrives just as the interior paint dries and there are plumbers and electricians on site to connect all of the equipment.
* And there you are. A little cleanup and testing and you’re ready to go. Get cooking and open the doors.
Sound simple? It’s not. Do not try to do it yourself.
The D-Day Invasion took less precision and professional planning than a standard McDonald’s kitchen.
Stay happy in what you do for a living. Hire an Architect and pay him to have the migrane headaches getting everything done right and on time.
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We want to remodel our kitchen. Is there a site to send pics to to get someone’s opinion and ideas? We will be doing this project ourselves.
I don’t know of any site, but put your pics on here, I’d love to help! I’m planning on being an interior designer. I’m in a class right now, and we’re learning about all this now.
What is the best design for a kitchen with a center island? The kitchen is a large rectangular shape.
Look through all these pictures. There are some real nice designs.
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=kitchens&btnG=Search+Images
Okay so I have a very open floor plan in my home. My kitchen and family room are connected, practically one big room, seperated by the carpet ending and the kitchen floor begins. We just moved in and are looking for a new paint scheme. Our current carpet is like a darker rose color and everywhere there is oak colored trim. In my kitchen my cabinets are oak, along with my island. My countertops are like a burgandy type color, but compliment my carpet. So I need some ideas of a paint scheme for my kitchen and family room. Should I do two seperate colors that compliment each other, or the same color for continuance? I need some ideas for a paint scheme, thanks in advance!
Sherman Williams has a great web site. You can pick a room similiar to yours on their simulated home and begin choosing colors painting them on your computer and seeing how it looks before you buy anything. We did our home this way and we also have an open kitchen dining and living area. It is really a great site. Check it out. And mostly have fun in your home and congrats. granmatictac
Your best bet is an all in one kitchenette. Six foot is small.
http://www.acmekitchenettes.com/?OVRAW=kitchenette&OVKEY=kitchenette&OVMTC=standard&OVADID=2163500521&OVKWID=20465701021
i suggest you to use some application programe with what you can design the best desgin & layout in just a couple of minutes. There are the various programs available to design your architactural design of your build in the 3D view. There are the applications like: 3D homes, punch pro professional etc.
We just bought a 1951 ranch house and the kitchen needs upgrading, but I want to keep the original 1950’s theme. I’m looking for websites, magazines or books with ideas on cabinets, countertops, flooring, appliances, furniture, window treatments and accessories from this era.
i’d use vintage 1950s good housekeeping or better homes and gardens magazines, or find an interior decorating book from the 50s era. It might cost you $20 or so, but would include many photos and instructions on your design. you could probably find one on ebay. retro is back in a big way and finding replacement appliances (the look at least) to match your kitchen will be easy. try the sources below, and good luck.
Hi, i am planing to decorate my dry kitchen. But in the middle of the kitchen there is a column. I want to put up a island and make use of this column. Do you have any ideal to design the island which incorporate with the island? thanks
stone would look real nice
Can u all please help me?
This was my school assignment.
Please, i felt tough to find it.
If can, please let me know also ’bout the e-mail.
Thanks 4 who answering my question!!!
sorry not restaurant’s layout and design, it’s restaurant’s kitchen layout and design.
The floor plan inside the restaurant kitchen.
Always remember not home’s kitchen, is restaurant’s kitchen! =D
Thank you very much!!!
Options:
Ask the city for plans
Ask the restaurant owner for plans (Best chance)
Draw it up yourself with a tape measure
They seem to know so much about getting the maximum out of a very small area (we are in a very small condo, renovated, used to be the top floor of a home with 4 bedrooms and a bathroom. Now it has an office, kitchen and an living/dining room combo that used to be 2 bedrooms. The third floor attic is now the bedroom. Comments on Ikea for everything may help.
I had a 6 x 7 foot kitchen, a typical New York apartment kitchen. I bought Ikea cabinets. I’m very happy with them.
The real challenge is fitting what you need into a small space.
I cook every day. But still, in order to have more in the kitchen I bought a 20 inch wide gas stove. I could not cook a big turkey but almost everything else fit.
The room was 84 inches long and 73 inches wide.
From the doorway to the back wall here’s what I put in the room:
Left side:
24 inch wide Bosch washing machine.
24 inch wide Spacemaker Dishwasher with a mandatory
double sink. (This is a GE product where the washer is 3/4 size only on the top rack to accommodate the sink. It’s hard to find even on the GE website but it does exist.
The sink is actually on top of the counter and the dw is right underneath.
24 inch Bosch clothes dryer.
Above this cabinet layout, I put in Akarum cabinets with aluminium frame, frosted glass doors from IKEA.
On the right side:
A 28inch wide refrigerator/freezer (typical apartment size)
A 15 inch cabinet with one drawer and a slide out thing for
trash behind the door underneath the drawer.
A 20 inch gas stove with oven.
A 21 inch cabinet with all drawers.
Above these I put in more Akarum cabinet with aluminium/frosted glass doors.
I had plenty of counterspace (granite) but I had to keep extra pans in a box in the hall closet because in the lower area I had very little storage. I wanted a washer and dryer more than storage.
Ikea’s cabinets look good and wear well.
They have wonderful inserts for drawers.
They also have a metallic rod you can put on a backplash to hang utensils nicely.
If you don’t need the W/D in the kitchen you would have many more cabinet options.
The only thing about IKEA that is a pain is the assembly of the cabinets. It’s not hard but you really need two people.
You could also try Home Depot as they are also very, very helpful if you go to the store on a not-busy weekend day.
Good luck. Small spaces are a challenge.
Do not go to either store without having EXACT measurements. Height of ceiling included. Also exact locations of gas (if used) pipe, outlets, plumbing lines.
Make a rough drawing with all elements (window?, door?)
and they will tell you what you can put in this room and where.
Another kitchen I did when I last moved was through Home Depot and they sent someone to my apartment to actually measure the room for me. I bought KraftMaid white cabinets below (solid doors) and white cabinets above with rippled glass above.
The thing about really small rooms is to keep it light. In this second kitchen I only put top cabinets on one side because I wanted to avoid the tunnel look. And for the top cabinets I used a combination of solid doors (for foodstuffs) and glass doors (for dishes, glasses). This kitchen is very narrow in one part but it is an L shape so
it’s not too cramped. The glass helps to keep the room looking somewhat spacious even though it really isn’t.
Everything that can be put away helps to keep the look uncluttered. So keep in mind trash receptacles so that the floor space has only floor and not trashcans.
Simple tiling or stone or solid core counters in neutral shades are also space-making.
Keep everything simple.