6 Kitchen Design Tweaks That Make Cooking So Much Easier

Key Takeaways

Both kitchen layout and materials mistakes can make your kitchen harder to use and make cooking and cleanup a real chore.

Think about your lifestyle and how you like to cook when you're designing your kitchen—and organize everything to make it as easy as possible to cook and clean.

When you're lucky enough to be doing a kitchen redo or update, you're probably focused on the aesthetics—choosing the right paint colors , a gorgeous backsplash, or the perfect cabinet pulls. But you should also be focused on function—because making the wrong choices on how your kitchen is set up or what materials you use can mean it's a real pain to cook and clean every single day. "Design for functionality first,'" says Liz Goldberg, founder of CAROLYNLEONA. "Beauty always follows when a kit