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It's inevitable. When it comes to relaxing and spending time at home, there's usually food involved so the kitchen ends up being the place where everyone wants to hang out. From meal preparation and homework time to casual get-togethers and formal affairs, as the heart of the home, your kitchen needs to accommodate everyone from grazers to serious chefs - sometimes all at once!
A typical product development cycle for corporate industrial designers lasts two to three years, which means today's designers are working on products that won't hit shelves until 2015 or 2016. In GE's appliance unit, four teams of industrial designers were asked to dream up what kinds of products they might expect the company to release in 2025 to suit the domestic lifestyles of the near future.
Smart appliances offer numerous features that favor touchscreen users, from refrigerators with LCD displays that tell you how to make dinner to Wi-Fi enabled washers that download the perfect laundry cycle. Sanchez notes smart appliances go beyond delivering equipment diagnostics to offering more practical applications, such as a smart fridge that alerts you if you left its door open or if it experienced a power outage.
Waterloo Region Record Whether you're moving into a new home or renovating, choosing appliances can be overwhelming. With so many options to choose from, it can often be challenging to select the best product that meets both your cooking needs and budget. Electric Coil Range An electric range uses electricity to heat its range coils and oven.
Consumer Reports can help you build the kitchen of your dreams with information on top trends and products.
One of the toughest spots in the house to decorate is above the kitchen cabinets. Do you have this problem? It's often a bare space of unchartered territory that you may have thought to add some decor, but just didn't know what to display or how to pull it all together.
Cooking is back in vogue, but what consumers want in cooking appliances varies dramatically - from the home chef looking for a great looking cooktop that goes seamlessly from simmer to sear to multi-generational families looking for flexibility to accommodate multiple cooks of differing abilities to time-pressed couples seeking speed cooking options and ovens that can be programmed from their iPhone.
Appliance manufacturers regularly update their top-of-the-line products with new technology and fresh design elements-and pass the expense of each "improvement" along to the consumer, of course. Some of these upgrades do in fact deliver the added convenience they promise, but others may not be good enough to pay more for.
The trick to making a kitchen look good is to not use it. "I'm going to be honest, when you open up an Elle Decor and everything is spotless and perfect, that person probably doesn't cook," said Jacob Laws, a senior designer with Cure Design Group.
