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Chef’s Kitchens: Redefining Meal Inspiration for Busy Tenants

Spacious and functional multifamily kitchens can command top dollar rents. Read more to learn how you can create a dream kitchen for your residents.

Multifamily tenants lead busy lives. They are constantly traveling to work, school, and around town to complete errands. Often, they are eating meals outside of the apartment home, which isn’t always a healthy diet. Chef’s kitchens can call tenants back home to create healthier meals for themselves and their families to promote better wellbeing. Check out these essentials that you can add into chef’s kitchens to make meal prep and cleaning simple and fun for your tenants.

Meal Prep Areas

Chef’s kitchens can be designed to separate the meal prep area from the cooking and cleaning area to provide more space for two or more chefs to move about without bumping into each other. The ultimate meal prep area focuses on preparing the ingredients before everything is moved to the stove and oven.

A great place to have this station is on a kitchen island where a tenant can have plenty of room to wash and cut vegetables or put the finishing touches on desserts. A kitchen island can be equipped with a butcher’s block cutting board that can be inset into the countertop, a hidden trash can cabinet to hold the peelings, and a wash sink.

The Moscato Single Handle Kitchen Faucet provides a single handle to make it easier to turn on when hands are messy when prepping food or when holding fruit that needs to be washed off.

Ultimate Cooking Spaces

Cooking areas should be both beautiful and functional to entice tenants to try out new and exciting recipes. When creating a chef’s kitchen, make sure all the features are within easy and logical reach so tenants can quickly attend to bubbling pots and hot ovens. Larger chef’s kitchens may be equipped with multiple ovens, such as a convection oven and a steam oven, as well as a gas cook range with a griddle or a grill attached.

Consider adding in more features to the area next to the range. You can place in a wide counter space to accommodate long baking pans and dishes where the tenant can transfer finished meals. In addition, to make it easier for the tenant to obtain water for pots or to add into meals, a pot filler faucet located beside the stove or even above the range top can make cooking fabulous meals a breeze.

The Symmons Design Studio™ Pot Filler Faucet has an extendable arm attachment so the spout can swing over the pot to fill it with water.

Cleaning Essentials

A big reason that many people avoid cooking large, fantastic meals is because of the mess that will have to be cleaned up afterward. A chef’s kitchen for tenants can have all the right cleanup tools available for them to make quick work of any dropped food or spilled drinks.

You can install more than one sink in the space: one for cooking meals and another for cleaning dirty pots and dishes. This setup keeps the mess located in one place so it isn’t scattered along every countertop or on burners. Then you can place in faucets with pull-down features as tenants can direct the rinse water in the right direction to blast the baked-on food out of pots and pans.

The Identity™ Single Handle Pull Down Faucet has a two-function pull-down spout and rotating spray selection to get the right amount of water to clean up the kitchen after a big meal.

You can revamp multifamily kitchens by adding in chef’s kitchens that will provide beauty and sophistication in tenants’ apartments. Your tenants will feel excited about cooking at home again as these inspirational spaces can improve the health and well being of your residents. For additional kitchen inspiration, be sure to connect with one of our Multifamily specialists.

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