Room Planning: Service Area

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Room Planning Service Area

• Kitchens, Laundry/Clothes Care/Utility rooms,
  garages, etc.

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Service Areas

• Supplements the living and sleeping area of a
  home
• Supplies equipment and space for maintenance,
  storage, and service
• Includes
• Kitchens
• Clothes care center (laundry room)
• Garages
• Utility
• storage

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Kitchen

• Principal use is food preparation
• May be extended to include
• Dining
• Laundry
• storage

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Kitchen

• Usually the most expensive room of the house (per
  square foot)
• Receives the most active use of any room

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Efficient Planning of Kitchens

• Involves
• Placement of appliances
• Providing adequate storage cabinets
• Arrangement of food preparation facilities
• Creates work centers
• Food preparation center
• Cleanup center
• Cooking center

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Efficient Planning of Kitchens

• Arrangement of components should be logical and
  designed to minimize the amount of walking
  required by the homemaker

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WORK TRIANGLE

• Measure of kitchen efficiency
• Determined by drawing a line from the front
  center of the range, to the refrigerator to the
  sink and back to the range.
• The lengths of these three lines are added
  together to produce the length of the work
  triangle.
• For practical kitchen design this distance should
  not exceed 22 feet.

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• Provision for food storage and cooking utensils
  should be located near the areas where they are
  to be used.

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Kitchen Styles

• Straight Line
• Often found in apartments and cottages
• Takes up very little room
• Not as much cabinet space
• Functional but not exciting

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• L-Shaped
• Located along 2 adjacent walls

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• Corridor
• Located on 2 walls opposite of each other

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• U-Shaped
• Popular design
• No through traffic

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• Peninsula
• Plenty of workspace
• Easily joined to the dining room using the
  peninsula as a divider
• Many variations of peninsula design

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• Island
• Modification of straight-line, L-shaped, and
  U-shaped
• Island often with range, sometimes sink
• Plenty of storage

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Cabinets and Appliances

• Available in many styles, shapes, and colors
• Chosen based on the type nad design of the kitchen

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Kitchen Eating Areas

• Type of kitchen where you are seated in the same
  area where the food is prepared
• Informal dining area
• Sometimes table, other times counters with stools
• Breakfast nooks

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Other Service Areas Clothes Care Center

• Laundry room
• Often incorporated with utility rooms, housing
  washer/dryer, water heater, water softener,
  sometimes ½ bath, etc.
• Clothes care center has areas for washing,
  drying, pressing, folding, storing, and mending
  clothes

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Garages

• Shelter for the car!
• Attached or detached
• Heated, unheated, insulated or uninsulated
• Workshops

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Handicap considerations - kitchens

• Lower work areas, accessible sinks and cooking
  units, wheelchair space

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BOOK

• Read Chapter 7, p. 127 149
• DO Questions 1-12, p. 149-150

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CAD

• Re-draw Figure 7-5
• 12 x 12 U-shaped kitchen with eating nook , p.
  129
• PLOT Add plot stamp
• Scale to fit