7 Kitchen Planning Mistakes That Amateurs Always Make When Designing Their Space, According to London's Best Kitchen Designers

A large kitchen with an island and dining area next to the island. There is also a view of the double door fridge in the kitchen.

You’re excited for your new kitchen reno, but there’s an important part of the process we’re all getting wrong time and time again. Because the key behind every successful kitchen isn’t the color of the doors or the style of cabinets – it’s all in the planning, say the experts.

So it might come as a surprise that many of us are planning our modern kitchen ideas all wrong. “A truly successful kitchen design is not defined by how it looks in a photograph, but by how it supports the life that unfolds within it,” says Felix Milns, founder of HUX London. “Every decision matters: the placement of each drawer and cupboard, whether to incorporate an island, and how that island interacts with the rest of the space. All of these shape the functionality and experience of the kitchen.”