11 Kitchen Design Mistakes + how to fix them!

I like this channel a lot. Very neat. I thought it would have some 400k+ subscribers but it has only 2.7k as of today. The video quality is great and sure it will be a good one in future

You have a great presentation style. Natural, pleasant, and to the point. This was a good list. I agree that no appliance should be on the island in an ideal world. If you put one there, you may be tempted to also put a bar height surround, which does not look as good as an all one height counter

that intro got me hahaha As always, so many helpful tips delivered with examples and good humor!

👏👏👏 You are the first person I have ever heard advocating for separate kitchen and living space. Western cooking is almost always in (at least partially) in the oven. I watch a lot of home Reno or house hunting shows. Every one wants an open plan kitchen. Imagine cutting onions or even frying them in an open plan kitchen everyone’s eyes would be watering and the smell of food would permeate the upholstery and curtains in the house. No matter how powerful the exhaust. 🤷‍♀️ at least Asians should understand their kitchen needs and not demand open plan kitchens.

Love your videos! Luckily, and unluckily, our kitchen was already in when we moved to our new apartment, so we didn't have much choice. I can't wait to be able to design my own kitchen!

Thankyou imtry to watch many clip but your clip is all answer. Im from thailand an i try to makeover my home kitchen. Inspiration

I absolutely agreed with everything you said. Thank you.

I'm with you on everything but the drawers. I find it really annoying to pull out a heavy drawer whenever I need anything. It's slow and everything in the drawer gets moved around. Definitely agree on the no sinks or hobs in island! Really disliked this trend. Everyone ruining a beautiful island 😅

Excellent analysis

Oh my god, I am so glad I found this video. Those tips are so useful and are put together very well. Thank you so much for sharing!

For the kitchen seen from the entrance, a relatively easy fix might be to change the side the front door opens to. It can shift the first thing you see when the door opens.

Love your tips! For asian kitchen, what type of cooker hood/vent to reduce smells? I am looking for cabinet hood which you can hide under the cabinets

Great advice!

Great ideas. I have an open kitchen, visible from the entrance, with 2 uppers to the ceiling, open shelves, and no vent 😂 oh- and no drawers. The kitchen was opened c 1940s. The cabinets added in the 40s were dropped, and I’m not removing the 80s version as we speak. I have two large 40”x49” tall cabinets with old style twist turn brass latches from 1902 for my 1905 kitchen, so that’s a win over the pressboard oak of the 80s! I’ve taken out the rotten base cabinets in favor of an open (curtained) wood sink table. The 1927 Hotpoint range is from 1927 in b& w and chrome. It’s fab. I don’t do a lot of frying so it’ll be fine. Later, I’ll add a wall fan on the stove side to suck out cooking odors. I DO have 3 lighting sources. And a cast iron porcelain sink with one large basin. I’ll also look for a drawer unit that’s solid wood and old. I’m pretty excited because though I have little counter space, so have a lovely work triangle. And will ❤ my open shelving!

5:43 One drawback to drawers is that they're permanent. They can't be shifted to meet changing needs. If you've got two deep 12 inch drawers and the utensil drawer above that, this is what you must live with. For life. One solution is to secure the shelf so it doesn't tip, then add undermount drawer slides. Now, if you ever need to shift things around so that you have a 16 inch and another that's eight inches, you just raise and lower the shelf pins, secure the shelf, and replace the drawer fronts. MUCH more manageable. I'm constantly trying to come up with strategies to future-proof a kitchen.

I love your videos. Mostly, your cooking makes me very hungry for authentic Chinese food which Texas is sorely missing!

I do have an induction cooktop in the island. I love it there because the island is large enough that people sitting at it can talk to me as I cook. The rest of the rules I followed. I do love my kitchen.

I think the only thing I disagree on is drawers. I understand the advantages of them, and I’m not saying they are bad… but: (1) they’re not reconfigurable. If my husband (and, face it, it is my husband) decides he will be baking bread and needs a grain mill and giant tubs of wheat, I need the ability to reconfigure the cabinets to accommodate this new addition to my kitchen, whatever its height, etc. Things also go in and out of favor. Back in the day, we made pasta all the time, and so pasta materials needed to be convenient; now they don’t. To me, the inability to reconfigure means I don’t want to move to drawers. (2) It often is unpleasant to grip heavy things and lift straight up out of a drawer; I can get a better grip reaching around it. And, sure, I can configure a special cabinet for my stand mixer, but see point #1. The stand mixer went out of favor after a period of frequent use. (In fact, it went so much out of favor that we now have the Ankarsrum instead, which is a different size and shape.). I guess I feel my life and diet have changed so much over the past 20 years, and we’ve rearranged the kitchen to suit every time… I can’t see myself putting in a kitchen so customized to what I am doing now knowing that everything will probably change again in five years. (Because I am never remodeling this kitchen again. Ever.)

Very helpful video. Drawers for everything didn’t exist in 2008 when wegot our askersund ikea kitchen. If only! Bought in a rush after an extension. What are your views on an island versus dining area?We can’t have both, only one or the other. Which don’t recommend? Thank you

Hello, I have an L shape kitchen ( with an island) and my stove is closer to the corner where there is no cabinet on the side wall. I have the recommended minimum counter working space between the stove and the side wall. I am concerned there could be cooking splashes on that side wall. Should I continue the tiles onto the side wall only for the space between the countertop and upper cabinet for the depth of the counter top or should I tile the entire height of the side wall ? Thanks for your tip, really appreciate it.