The work and service area includes the kitchen, laundry, garage, utility room, storage, stairs, and corridors. The work area should be so located as to ensure privacy and quiet in the rest of the house. You should be able to enter the house and go to the kitchen and laundry without passing through other areas. Also, the kitchen should have an outside entrance for tradesmen (if possible). And take note your house plan, in which the kitchen is accessible from the front vestibule and breezeway and the garage is accessible from the breezeway.

Your home is your haven, and it should function as you need it to and look and feel the way you want it to. The interior design as well is a very personal process. Quality interior design can help resolve the ache that comes when something is impeded.

There are three steps that you should take before making any major changes or purchases in planning your work and service area. First, define the area as either public or private. Second, envision a design concept. Third, create a space plan for your work and service area you will be working on.