Whether your kitchen is sleek and modern, or in a country farmhouse style, choosing the right design features for your kitchen taps will ensure they not only look great, but meet your practical needs as well.
1. Flexible spout
Most professional kitchens have taps with a flexible spout. The Flexible spout allows you to maneuver the flow of water from different pans very quickly, giving you great control and ease of use. So if you love to cook, or you’d like to add a touch of professional panache to your kitchen, a tap with a flexible spout, like the HJUVIK from IKEA, is the perfect choice.
2. Boiling water taps
Boiling water taps are a modern design feature that produces boiling water directly from your kitchen tap. Having a boiling water tap in your kitchen removes the need for a kettle and helps to conserve energy.
3. Eco-mode
Many kitchen taps, like the ALSVIK from IKEA, come with special settings, or eco-modes, that reduce water flow without affecting the pressure. This helps to conserve energy and also saves you money on your water bill.
4. Filtered
Filtered kitchen taps directly produce filtered drinking water, without the need for further filtration systems. There’s nothing quite like a cool fresh glass of pure water when you’ve been toiling away all day, and these are the taps to provide it.
5. High flow
High flow kitchen taps are specially designed to increase the flow of water, even when the water pressure in your home is low. High flow taps are excellent at dislodging food waste from your crockery, and aren’t bad at squirting the cat if it jumps up on the work tops!
6. Dual-control mixer
A classic design for any kitchen is the dual-control mixer tap, like the LOVIKEN from IKEA. Two controls, one for hot water, and the other for cold water, blend the flow together so you can be completely in charge of the overall temperature.
7. Pull-out
Pull-out taps are a neat and tidy way of adding a little extra practicality to your kitchen. As their name suggests, you can pull them out, extending them to where you are working. Great for filling buckets, rinsing out pans, or cleaning your football boots, as long as your mum doesn’t catch you!
8. Spray
Spray taps are often similar in design to pull out taps in that they can be extended out from the basin. They have the additional feature of producing a sprayed flow of water than is specifically designed for washing and rinsing your dishes.
9. Monoblock single handle
If you’re going for a simple minimalist look, or you have a small kitchen sink, a monoblock single handle tap, like the HOVSKÄR from IKEA, is an ideal choice. A monoblock tap extends from one opening in the sink, and the single handle maintains an elegant aesthetic.
10. Multi-touch
A kitchen tap design feature to look out for in the future is the multi-touch. This kitchen tap, dreamed up by IKEA, works according to your hand movements. Futuristic and very hygienic.
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