Ex car designers have taken to sculpt the hub of family life
Kitchen Porter and Jones - more iron, graphite, copper, brass and natural stone will be the trend in recent designs.
Major decisions are carried out in the kitchen. It's where the kitchen occurs, but it is often the boardroom of the family too. When problems occur, the kitchen is the place where they are corrected.
Is more informal than the living room and less territorial Room. And it provides a captive audience.
If you want to talk to someone about an uncomfortable subject, wait until they are cutting vegetables. You'll have at least half its staff, is unlikely to go down, and you will not have to look in the eyes. In fact, they are easy to whatever you want to talk white.
Just be careful of sharp knives.
When the kitchen design focuses on ergonomics alone, sometimes misses the mark. I have seen magnificent open kitchens with all appliances in the catalog, and have known instinctively that he would not be able to relax in them. Maybe it's just me, but I cannot tell people my problems when I'm surrounded by high gloss finishes.
And I cannot imagine trusting someone in a room full of edges and right angles. My kitchen is not just a workstation - is also a confessional.
Any kitchen designer worth his salt will take this into account.
"You have to be good at dealing with people. A lot of the time you are listening to what they say as much as what they say," says Lisa Johnston of Johnston Cillian Studio.
"The kitchens are very personal. For me, the feeling of space is paramount. If you have ten presses, can fill them all. If you only have one you will learn to handle that. But we must be able to enter a kitchen and think -. Here is a space where I can operate Aesthetics are a consequence of that ".
She finds that the Irish can be cautious about their kitchens, often fleeing adventurous designs. "We all have a conception of what a kitchen, and generally we grew up with," she says.
"Most of the Irish want to move a leap forward with design, but not ten falls. We need that connection with the past."
From a kitchen is a big investment, it is probably wise to be conservative. And the more you spend, the more time is likely to last. A kitchen Cillian Johnston Studio will cost at least € 15,000, but for that you get a fully handmade in which each element.
"We do everything ourselves," Johnston says. "If we say we do a drawer we actually do from scratch tailored is that means that all elements are elastic modularity No -.... That means there is no restriction"
If you buy a kitchen entry level, probably it is a company that offers modular units, put together to get closer to what you want approximation. There will be limitations, but that will be reflected in the cost. 2015 Ikea catalog, for example, shows kitchens between € 1,000 and € 3,000. Even when you added the cost of bringing home the planes packages, and around € 1,300 to be fitted kitchen, still pretty cheap.
The argument against buying entry level kitchens is that they do not last, but it depends on what you mean by duration. Our own kitchen cost around
€ 2,000 to buy and 1,000 € to install about seven years ago. It looked great for the first five years. Now it's getting a little old, but I think we can jolly along for a while.
Kitchen Porter & Jones Dublin start at about
€ 20,000. The company is the Irish agent for Snaidero, an Italian brand known for expensive, minimal, contemporary kitchens. But even if you cannot afford to buy in this end of the market, worth taking a look at what is happening in the forefront of technology and style.
Since many of Snaidero designers have worked on the car industry, it is not surprising that some of their kitchens have the type of finish you would expect in an expensive car.
"As for the finish, I think we will be seeing more matte finishes," says Liza Porter Jones & Jones. "Snaidero have introduced a compound of mica in a range of lacquers which gives them a pearly shine."
Marble is still the most popular work surface, for those who can afford it, but the highly polished black marble from the boom years ago has given way to pale gray and white with subtle veining. "The whiter the most expensive!" says Jones.
