The flexibility of kitchens emerges as an architectural concept that adapts to the new trends in decoration and current lifestyle. Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect of the last century, said that “architecture is life”, assuring that it adapts to the rhythm of life of society, even creating a record of that lifestyle.

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Open Kitchen

By joining the kitchen to the living-dining room, we generate visual continuity and spaciousness. The visual continuity is evident and can be amplified if we also open this space to the outside through properly sized windows. The amplitude of spaces comes out by itself, creating a room whose surface will be the sum of the partial surfaces, therefore it expands.

When opening the kitchen to the rest of the house, it is necessary to look for an element that organizes and distributes communications and its uses. The island is one of them. Almost any space, with the right dimension, longer or wider, can admit the location of a kitchen island. It is versatile in its size, length by width, and in its forms, with a bar, appliances, etc. The peninsula can be another strategy to configure a kitchen if we have another distribution, which also adapts to its envelope generating a multitude of variants.

It should be noted that the finishes can enhance these configuring elements. Thus, textures, colors, materials, lighting, etc., help us to design sober, elegant, fun spaces, …, depending on the client’s needs. The furniture is completed with the appliances that can play with contrasts, blend in, stand out or blend in with their surroundings.