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Remarkably it would seem that against all expectations kitchen designers Cheshire have been living in the same world as the rest of us. For many years it seems that kitchen designers enjoyed living in a parallel dimension in which even the average homeowner enjoyed a the kitchen that was roughly the same size as Wales.
The reality is often that despite being a room where space is at a premium, the use of space has been fairly awful. Many years ago the kitchen was merely the place where food was prepared, and often people would use larders or cellars for storing their food. The number of pots and pans was fairly limited, and many of these would either be included in a drawer underneath the cooker, or hang from the ceiling.
Larger appliances such as washing machines, dishwashers, microwaves, food processors, electric kettles, toasters and blenders were unheard of. There was enough space to do what was needed.
But the problem has been that over the years the number of kitchen appliances has grown dramatically, the number of properties that no longer have a larder is significantly higher than before, and kitchens have become somewhere far more dynamic than merely a place to store food.
The supermarkets are also partly to blame for many of the problems people have been facing in their kitchens, because rather than popping to the shop to buy a single can of baked beans and a packet of crisps, we now find ourselves only able to buy cans of beans in packets of four, and usually we just arrive as the supermarket is launching a buy two get one free offer, meaning that we end up staggering back with 12 cans of baked beans. Crisps are rarely sold in single packets, and so in addition to our dozen cans of beans we also end up staggering back with 18 packets of crisps.
This pattern continues throughout most of our shopping, which means that kitchens have to cope not only with an enormous number of additional appliances and gadgets, but enough food to keep the British Army on its feet for a good month. But it seems that kitchen designers Cheshire have been aware of the growing problems facing most of the rest of us, and have therefore come up with a whole range of innovative kitchen designs specifically designed to provide solutions to the problems that have been hounding us for so long.
Despite the obvious need for more storage space in our kitchens, many kitchen designs have been fairly poor as far as the use of the available space is concerned. The amount of either wasted space or unusable space within the kitchen is tremendous, but many of us have become used to the same kitchen designs and layouts for so long that we're almost unable to see how the arrangement of furniture could in any way be improved.
This is the difference between the rest of us and kitchen designers, because whereas we see the problems, it often takes kitchen designers to come up with solutions which not only work, but also provide style. If you happen to be in the area then it's well worth having a look at some of the examples kitchens put together by kitchen designers Cheshire, offering a whole range of exceptionally clever storage solutions designed to tackle the problems which we're facing today. For example, there's no use having a cupboard with just a single shelf halfway up, because this inevitably means having to stack items on top of each other in a rather unsettling way. Having units with more shelves, shorter shelves, or adjustable shelving makes a lot more sense when faced with the kind of shopping most of us do.
