8. Locate Connecting Traffic Patterns To Other Areas
Traffic between kitchen, dining and other living areas and the outside has a significant effect on the success of your kitchen design. Using the space you left around the perimeter of your drawings, draw in immediate connecting space on all sides of your kitchen including hallways, outside walls, entries, porches, decks and patios, access to driveways or street and any other connection.
These connections must be respected during the design process. Changing them can mean a vastly improved space or one that impedes that natural flow of the household. Look at what you have now and play with other traffic patterns on your sketches until any potential improvements begin to present themselves.
