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Kitchen Decor For Bachelors

By Madhu Babu

As more and more youth seem to go places to study or seek to start their career, there is a growing trend among the youth in setting up independent homes. Some tend to live alone while others prefer to share their pod with like minded people from workplace or elsewhere. Most of these youths prefer apartments or portion of houses that is independently leased out. They like their privacy and do their décor in their budget suiting their style and comfort.

When it comes to their kitchen, most bachelor kitchen décor seem to be minimalistic. Lets face it, who as a bachelor prefers to spend hours on cooking and cleaning in the kitchen. There are lot of stuff on their hands and life that occupy too much time leaving out very little time to be spent in kitchen. As a result, most bachelor kitchen décor will be basic and to-the-need basis.

Its hard to find bachelor kitchens with fancy processors or special stoves. Most of the bachelors or students would in most cases get to have breakfast and possibly dinner at home. As breakfast can be minimalistic with omelettes and sandwiches, most work in kitchen is done for dinners. Even during dinners, many would prefer simple roti's and dals to with as they would be tired or busy preparing for exams and projects. Most kitchen decors for students and bachelors are designed keeping this in mind.

Small

Small

First and foremost factor for designing a bachelor / student kitchen is its size. Most would prefer small kitchen as their requirements would be minimal and prefer decor with most items to be arms length away. This helps in cooking faster and easier by standing in one place.

Minimal equipments

Minimal equipments

Most students prefer to have basic and all essential equipments in their kitchen. They would be saving up with their pocket money for latest games or consoles rather than for the next gen exhaust system. They can live with a little smoke in the house.

Good storage

Good storage

Whatever little items they need and store, most bachelors and students prefer kitchen décor to have maximum closed storage for it. This helps in low maintenance and less cleaning. Most of these kitchens would be filled with ready to eat, ready to cook, pre-mix etc. that needs safe cool storage.

Lots of cold storage

Lots of cold storage

If there is one that helps any student or a working bachelor in terms of kitchen décor, it would b e lots of cold storage to aid them in storing their left over's for easy heat-and-eat for days to come. Not many students prefer to cook all the time all over again.

Kitchen with TV view

Kitchen with TV view

If a student can afford to have a TV in his kitchen, he would not think twice to accommodate it in his kitchen décor scheme. Eating is important as watching their favourite game on TV. They would not miss it for anything, and certainly not for cooking.

Multi-tasking gadgets

Multi-tasking gadgets

If it helps in their cooking and speeding their preparation time for cooking, most students would prefer to accommodate them in their kitchen décor. A latest food processor that does half the task of preparation would be at the top of their mind to simplify their cooking and make cooking fun.

Place to hang phone or tablet

Place to hang phone or tablet

These are some of the latest demands any student or working bachelor makes. They would want a place in the kitchen to hang and watch or use their mobiles and tablets. It helps them in watching a recipe while cooking or even better by watching how-to-cook videos to help them cook better.

Story first published: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 13:23 [IST]
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