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Symmons Industries
More singles, couples, and small families living in multifamily apartments consider themselves foodies who are looking for the ultimate meal experience. Not only are they enjoying foods from different cultures and regions, but they are learning more about the ingredients that they use and are refining their cooking methods and techniques to make their meals a new experience to all the senses.
Multifamily kitchens typically focus on function by fitting as many appliances and features into smaller spaces. So foodies have to come up with creative ideas to have all the cooking pans, utensils, and ingredients on hand without making the kitchen feel too crowded. If you plan on remodeling your rental units to appeal to foodies, here are three aspects to have in a multifamily foodie kitchen.
Kitchen Islands for Dinner Parties
Entertaining dinner guests as they enjoy inventive meals never tasted before is a foodie’s dream come true. In multifamily spaces, often the kitchen is open to other areas of the rental unit such as the living room and dining room. A kitchen island with a butcher block area and counter seating allows a person to cook and talk with guests while getting the meal completed.
Kitchen islands allow for more counter space in small rooms. There may be small drawers or shelves to hold tools to peel and grate vegetables, as well as an inset garbage can to discard the peelings. A meal prep sink is also ideal when placed on the island, as the foodie tenant doesn’t have to shuffle back and forth across the kitchen to the island to wash off foods. Guests can watch the tenant prepare meals and ask about certain ingredients as the tenant can regale them about their food adventures.
The Identity™ single handle pull-down kitchen faucet allows the tenant to easily turn on the faucet when holding vegetables and fruits or when washing out meal prep bowls and trays.
Simple and Efficient Cooking Areas
Due to some meals being large and complicated, cooking areas should be simple and safe to make the work more efficiently. Higher-end multifamily spaces may have ultimate foodie kitchens with double separate ovens set into the wall, double stoves, and indoor grills along stovetops. Other middle and lower end multifamily spaces may just stick with the basic necessities. When renovating the multifamily kitchen, consider these items that will appeal to all foodie lifestyles.
Food storage is a must by the cooking area. Incorporate ingredient storage spaces and shelves by the stove so foodie chefs can easily add spices and ingredients while stirring food in pans. Also, consider pot fillers and high arc faucets that can make cooking a breeze. A pot filler is set into the wall above the stove, as it has hinges that allow the spout to be moved over the stove burners to fill up large stock pots. If a pot filler won’t work into the existing kitchen water pipe set up, consider high arc faucets instead.
The Sereno® single handle pull-down faucet has a high arc that allows large pots and pans to have enough clearance to fit into sink areas easily when cooking meals.
Dish Washing for Quick Cleanup
A foodie can produce a lot of dirty pots with dried-on and stuck-on food. Having ways to keep the mess to a minimum and in a single area of the kitchen allows tenants to quickly clean up after large meals so they don’t spend hours in the kitchen after the last dish is placed into a sink.
More multifamily buildings are providing garbage disposals to cut down on the amount of food refuse placed into trash bags that are carried along the halls to the outside dumpster. Consider featuring deep sinks that allow tenants to soak dirty pans and pull-out faucets to get into the crevices of casserole dishes and baking pans to clean up the food gunk.
Adding a few design changes can turn ordinary multifamily kitchens into innovative foodie kitchens to entice people to stay in and cook wonderful meals for their families and guests. The Symmons Multifamily team can help you select kitchen faucets that will be perfect for your tenants.
