{"id":26,"date":"2026-04-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesigner.thoughtexecuted.com\/?casa_journal=the-kitchen-is-the-new-living-room"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:00:00","slug":"the-kitchen-is-the-new-living-room","status":"publish","type":"casa_journal","link":"https:\/\/interiordesigner.thoughtexecuted.com\/?casa_journal=the-kitchen-is-the-new-living-room","title":{"rendered":"The Kitchen Is the New Living Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two generations the Indian kitchen was a back-of-house room \u2014 functional, hot, and hidden from guests. That era is over. The open plan has moved the kitchen to the social centre of the home, and with it, the standards it must meet have changed entirely.<\/p>\n<h2>From workspace to stage<\/h2>\n<p>A kitchen that is permanently visible must behave like furniture: silent mechanisms, concealed appliances, surfaces that survive scrutiny at close range. This is why we engineer kitchens to close \u2014 full-height pocketing fronts that turn the working wall into quiet architecture when the evening begins.<\/p>\n<h2>What to invest in<\/h2>\n<p>Hardware first \u2014 it is the difference you touch fifty times a day. Then surfaces, then appliances, then everything else. A kitchen on precision runners with modest fronts will outlive and outperform its inverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian homes are reorganising themselves around the kitchen. What does that demand of its architecture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-26","casa_journal","type-casa_journal","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interiordesigner.thoughtexecuted.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casa_journal\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interiordesigner.thoughtexecuted.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casa_journal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interiordesigner.thoughtexecuted.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/casa_journal"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interiordesigner.thoughtexecuted.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}