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"  Even before choosing kitchen cabinets, you should decide where you want them. Good kitchen design makes me so happy when I&amp;#039;m cooking. I consider myself very lucky to get to cook in our stunning Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen every day. For starters, here&amp;#039;s the view from where I cook. Lord Norman Foster, one of the best architects in the world, designed this space to make it breathtakingly beautiful and perfectly functional. Here are 5 kitchen design lessons I&amp;#039;ve learned from cooking here: 1. Consider how you cook. I cook for five on weeknights, entertain guests on weekends, and am a serious baker. So, I wanted a lot of counter space, a big dine-in area, and two ovens. If you&amp;#039;re not cooking often or for many people, you may prefer a smaller space. (Less to clean!) 2. Work with a professional. It won&amp;#039;t be Lord Norman Foster, but it should be an architect or designer. I &amp;quot;hired&amp;quot; my dad, who happens to be a great architect, and quickly realized that he can visualize space and make sense of it in a way that I can&amp;#039;t. I told him how I want to cook and serve my food and he created a layout for it. If you can&amp;#039;t afford to hire someone (or aren&amp;#039;t related to a design professional), you can use the free services offered by kitchen stores. 3. Look for inspiration from genius designers. Come tour our test kitchen or browse books and magazines. (Yes, websites are great too. Check out Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s Home Style blog.) For kitchen layout and design, I found Terrence Conran&amp;#039;s Essential Kitchens to be clear and well organized with plenty of photos. 4. Make the most of natural light. I&amp;#039;ve worked in enough windowless basement restaurant kitchens to know how important this is. You can turn out delicious food in a dark, fluorescent-lit space, but it&amp;#039;s just not as fun.   5. Work with your space. You don&amp;#039;t want to be doing laps to get to your fridge, sink, range, and oven-or bumping into them at every turn. In our corner space here, each of our four cooking stations requires the appliances to be laid out in a line. My rectangular room at home resulted in a U-shaped kitchen design, with the classic work triangle of fridge, range, and sink at the three points. A good layout will help you cook fast meals even faster.   You can visit our test kitchen on one of our monthly tours or come for our special Earth Day tour. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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