Let experts furnish your kitchen. It is worth it.
FOR many, a kitchen is a small room<br>where a charcoal stove or cooker and cooking pans can fit, leaving little room for any movement.
By Harriet Birungi
FOR many, a kitchen is a small room
where a charcoal stove or cooker and cooking pans can fit, leaving little room for any movement.
Virani Sultana, the director of kitchen and office concepts, says a kitchen is that room in the home that calls for the highest levels of hygiene, as it’s where what is eaten is prepared. However, to ensure such levels of cleanliness, there should be enough space and order created by the kitchen design, without which it may be a habitat for rodents and harmful organisms that may contaminate the food.
“An ideal kitchen should have enough space of at least one and a half metres between one side of cabins and the other to avoid collision, sink for washing, cooking area where actual cooking is done, drawers for storage, worktop and platform to support cabinets. The insides of the cabins should have a bright colour, to avoid concealing of dirt,†explains Sultana.
Charlotte Katete, the showroom sales representative of Hwang Sung furniture, agrees with Sultana and adds that unless one has limited space, the kitchen should have both the upper and lower cabins or units to store kitchenware and some foodstuffs.
“The upper and lower units not only create order in the kitchen, but also make the area seem big and spacious when everything is stored away, making cleaning easy.â€
She adds that a chimney or range hood is another must-have kitchen component. The chimney not only takes away the different smells in the kitchen, but also helps in keeping it fresh by allowing in cool air, which dissolves the heat.
At Hwang Sung, the chimney comes at a different price, separate from the design charge, depending on size. “The smallest chimney of 600mm costs $240, including installation charges,†Katete says.
“For each metre wide and 7feet high worked on is $590 an equivalent of sh1,073,800 for both lower and upper units which adds up to sh8,144,500 for a normal-size kitchen of 7metre wide. A big kitchen worked on, may cost about sh14,632,000,†Katete says.
Bijan Khazali, whose kitchen was furnished by Hwang Sung says the results are worth it. Apart from having an organised kitchen, the finished work is excellent.
“When one walks into a fine and neat kitchen, it makes the owner proud, while creating trust among people who are going to eat from the house,†explains Khazali.
The tiles that separate the units, which may seem like a decorative measure, are also advantageous.
Apart from protecting the wood from water, when cleaning, they also reduce on the rate of wear of the kitchen paint and wall plaster. They bounce water off the wood cabins and wall by providing a smooth surface on which water flows, he explains.
Ajay Jay, the installation manager at Hwang Sung, says the wood used is a mixture of smelted saw dust and glue layered with a very thin transparent plastic material, called the plastic laminator. The plastic layer is an added protection to the wood as acts as vanish and saves the wood from water destruction.
Nevertheless, Katete says anyone can have their kitchen furnished by Hwang Sung depending on what they can actually afford.
Otherwise the price for designing a kitchen in both the new and old house is the same. However, when one has not taken the worktop, there is a deduction of $50 from the payment per metre worked upon.
“It is only when one bought and contracted us to install the design in their kitchen that we give six months guarantee and ask for a small fee for repairing should any damage happen to any part of the kitchen thereafter,†he says.
FOR many, a kitchen is a small room
where a charcoal stove or cooker and cooking pans can fit, leaving little room for any movement.
Virani Sultana, the director of kitchen and office concepts, says a kitchen is that room in the home that calls for the highest levels of hygiene, as it’s where what is eaten is prepared. However, to ensure such levels of cleanliness, there should be enough space and order created by the kitchen design, without which it may be a habitat for rodents and harmful organisms that may contaminate the food.
“An ideal kitchen should have enough space of at least one and a half metres between one side of cabins and the other to avoid collision, sink for washing, cooking area where actual cooking is done, drawers for storage, worktop and platform to support cabinets. The insides of the cabins should have a bright colour, to avoid concealing of dirt,†explains Sultana.
Charlotte Katete, the showroom sales representative of Hwang Sung furniture, agrees with Sultana and adds that unless one has limited space, the kitchen should have both the upper and lower cabins or units to store kitchenware and some foodstuffs.
“The upper and lower units not only create order in the kitchen, but also make the area seem big and spacious when everything is stored away, making cleaning easy.â€
She adds that a chimney or range hood is another must-have kitchen component. The chimney not only takes away the different smells in the kitchen, but also helps in keeping it fresh by allowing in cool air, which dissolves the heat.
At Hwang Sung, the chimney comes at a different price, separate from the design charge, depending on size. “The smallest chimney of 600mm costs $240, including installation charges,†Katete says.
“For each metre wide and 7feet high worked on is $590 an equivalent of sh1,073,800 for both lower and upper units which adds up to sh8,144,500 for a normal-size kitchen of 7metre wide. A big kitchen worked on, may cost about sh14,632,000,†Katete says.
Bijan Khazali, whose kitchen was furnished by Hwang Sung says the results are worth it. Apart from having an organised kitchen, the finished work is excellent.
“When one walks into a fine and neat kitchen, it makes the owner proud, while creating trust among people who are going to eat from the house,†explains Khazali.
The tiles that separate the units, which may seem like a decorative measure, are also advantageous.
Apart from protecting the wood from water, when cleaning, they also reduce on the rate of wear of the kitchen paint and wall plaster. They bounce water off the wood cabins and wall by providing a smooth surface on which water flows, he explains.
Ajay Jay, the installation manager at Hwang Sung, says the wood used is a mixture of smelted saw dust and glue layered with a very thin transparent plastic material, called the plastic laminator. The plastic layer is an added protection to the wood as acts as vanish and saves the wood from water destruction.
Nevertheless, Katete says anyone can have their kitchen furnished by Hwang Sung depending on what they can actually afford.
Otherwise the price for designing a kitchen in both the new and old house is the same. However, when one has not taken the worktop, there is a deduction of $50 from the payment per metre worked upon.
“It is only when one bought and contracted us to install the design in their kitchen that we give six months guarantee and ask for a small fee for repairing should any damage happen to any part of the kitchen thereafter,†he says.