New trends in the kitchen, let your kitchen do more than just cooking!
Everyone is looking forward to a better lifestyle. Have you ever thought the kitchen could be the core of your home, a center for social connections and making precious memories?
In the new trends in home furnishings in the past two years, we found that many designers are calling for: Don't just think of the kitchen as a place for cooking! The kitchen and dining space is evolving into an extraordinary place, a social oasis, and a "family social center." This change breaks the boundaries of tradition, redefines the concept of home, and reshapes our lives most interestingly.
A glimpse of future family kitchen life trends
The time we were mainly at home gradually faded, making us re-examine our lifestyle. Observe the life experts and friends around you, and you will find that their home decoration concepts have changed dramatically.
Trend 1: Shift in the center of life
In the past few years, we have learned to rediscover the joy of sitting at the dining table, where family and friends share delicious meals, stories, confidence, and laughter.
However, this trend has not stopped in the past. Today, the kitchen continues to emerge, gradually replacing the status of TV and living room and becoming a new focus. What is even more exciting is that inviting friends and guests back home to cook together and enjoy a wonderful dinner time has been re-elected as a lifestyle trend.
Trend 2: Changes in home layout
The traditional home layout is disappearing. The current mainstream apartment design will focus on making room for the open kitchen, integrating the kitchen with the living area, and naturally promoting communication.
"Family social center" has gradually become the dining and kitchen space concept that high-end designers are most willing to recommend. The home design industry has a professional name called LDK Integration. L is the living room, D is the dining room, and K is the kitchen. This is the initial concept of the "family social center".
LDK integration means breaking down spatial barriers and achieving the boundless integration of guests, dining, and kitchen. It has become the most fashionable lifestyle, allowing people to freely flow between food and socializing and building a new home space accommodating emotional socializing.
Trend 3: Evolution of cooking methods
The open kitchen exudes our passion for healthy eating and becomes a common experience based on friendship and family affection. This space is suitable for entertaining friends and close partners, injecting new life into the ancient cooking tradition.
Efficient smoke exhaust, direct drinking water, soda water faucets, fully automatic dishwashing, and even the intelligence and customization of the entire cooking activity have become new needs of modern families.
Trend 4: Fashionable kitchen
In the future family life, the kitchen space will be a social center for tasting food from all over the world and meeting guests from all over the world. How to use elegant and fashionable design concepts to create the details of this space will also be directly related to the comfortable experience of the "family social center".
CBNData "Home Style Consumption Preference Insight" data shows that when residents buy sets of home appliances, the preference rate for white appliances is as high as 70%. In addition, as social and experiential home models build a new life experience, more high-end users have higher requirements for appearance materials and more integrated aesthetics and artistic taste when choosing home products.
Trend 5: Dining returns to emotional connection
In a world that desires deeper interpersonal relationships, the kitchen oasis as a new social center has emerged and become a meaningful place for communication. Space is not limited to dining but also meeting our expectations for deep emotional communication with relatives and friends.
Imagine how warm and sweet it is to teach your children to bake in the kitchen and do simple household chores with your family.
In the family social center, you can invite your work partners to be your guests, share your private kitchen with everyone, show off your newly learned dishes, and discuss your future business plans with everyone. The kitchen and dining space allows you to closely connect with the people you care about most in an intimate and relaxing environment.
Create your home's social paradise
Are you ready to create a new "family social center" in the future? The following suggestions can be used in your kitchen renovation plan.
Open layout suggestions
Embrace the open dining area design, blur the boundaries between various functional areas, and even try to place the dining room in the center of the entire LDK space, seamlessly connecting with the living room and kitchen, enhancing the cohesion between each other, and helping to integrate dining and kitchen life into daily social and family emotional connections.
Multifunctional furniture
Consider using multifunctional furniture, such as retractable dining tables, foldable chairs, multifunctional cabinet pull-out baskets, etc., and customize the space according to the needs of different occasions.
Add lighting to enhance the atmosphere
Lighting design is crucial to creating the atmosphere of the dining and kitchen space. Focus lighting creates a warm atmosphere for dining, such as soft chandeliers or elegant wall lamps; invisible light strips make the kitchen more textured and can play a practical function when preparing meals.
In addition, different lighting methods can be used to create different social scenes (such as meeting guests, formal meals, tea tasting, family communication, etc.).
Efficient storage solutions
Provide designated storage locations for items such as tableware and plates through efficient storage solutions.
Intensive kitchen appliance system
You can customize a high-quality kitchen appliance system according to your life and social needs.
Dishwashers, vegetable washers, mops, smart wine cabinets, etc., can free family and friends from tedious housework and give them more time to get along and communicate.
Healthy drinking water easily becomes a habit
To make the social space convenient and comfortable and use water without worry, you must also consider the whole family's drinking and hot water plans.
Under-sink water purifiers, under-sink instant hot water dispensers, under-sink chilled water dispensers, and sparkling water direct drinking taps have become standard for everyone.
Let your family enjoy boiling water, chilled water, and sparkling water anytime, anywhere
The 2-stage drinking water filter consists of anti-scale and antibacterial filters. These two filters each have unique functions, and together they protect the water quality of the water tank while improving the taste of filtered and chilled water.
Under-sink instant hot water dispensers differ from bulky storage water heaters that take up space. They are ultra-thin and small but can give the whole family a maximum of 4L water. They do not take up kitchen space but can become the "hot water supply center" for the whole family. With a one-touch start, hot water comes immediately. There is no need to wait for the water to boil.
The under-counter cold water dispenser provides easy access to cold water, bringing convenience, efficiency, and stylish design to any kitchen or office. Water outlet temperature: 3-8°
Our sparkling water tap is an excellent addition for those who love refreshing sparkling water. Our taps are typically installed next to regular taps and provide instant access to chilled, carbonated water at the push of a button or lever. They come with filters to ensure the water is clean and tasty before carbonation. It's a convenient and eco-friendly alternative to buying bottled soda, reducing plastic waste and ensuring you always have sparkling water available to drink or mix with your
The multifunctional 5 in 1 tap system easily solves many pain points in family cooking, dining, drinking, parent-child, and socializing, creating a high-quality hospitality and family experience. Social relationships heat up in such a kitchen, and relatives and friends also have the best social space.