Placement of the Kitchen

The kitchen is the heart of the home

. It should flow into both the living/entertaining area and also the dining room. But as important is its location to the garage or the point of entry into the house. When bringing groceries into the house, you do not want to walk through the entire house in order to deposit the groceries into the kitchen, just to go back for another load. The grocery shopper of the house will absolutely hate an ill placed location. The kitchen is often time the gathering place in the house. It also tends to get a lot of through traffic. If your floor plan allows, plan the flow of traffic around the perimeter of the kitchen rather than right through the middle.