Kitchen Safety for your kids

1. Kitchen flooring

Slippery ceramic kitchen tiles aren't a safe choice for your kitchen floor if you have kids. Try to go for a tile with better grip, such as a rough slate. Also, a wooden kitchen floor is a good option, but steer clear of laminates, which also tend to be slippery underfoot.

2. Kitchen cabinets

Consider little fingers when you construct your kitchen units. Soft-close drawers and cupboard doors are a lot safer, as inquisitive children are less likely to get their hands trapped.

3. Kitchen cabinet hardware

When choosing hardware for your new kitchen units, consider design but put kitchen safety first. Try to avoid any knobs or handles with sharp edges, and when fitting them to your kitchen cabinets, take into account the head and eye height of your youngest child.

Browse the range of knobs and handles from IKEA

4. Kitchen accessibility

For kids who are tall enough to reach the countertop but aren't old enough to know better, a small step is a great way to make your kitchen safer and stops things coming crashing down on little heads or all over your kitchen floor.

Our MOLGER step stool is perfect for nosey parkers.

5. Kitchen appliances

Kitchen safety for kids is simply common sense. If your kitchen remodelling is coinciding with starting a family, you know you'll have small children around for a while. If this is the case…

consider installing your oven high up in a vertical kitchen unit, rather than integrating it into a base cabinet
choose an induction hob – they cool down as soon as the pan is removed from the ring
keep all small electric kitchen appliances safely out of reach

6. Kitchen knives

Whatever the ages of your children, kitchen knife safety is essential. Keep them well out of the way, as storing them in your kitchen drawers might result in a nasty accident. Our ASKER magnetic knife rack is a great solution. Fit it high up and out of reach.

7. Kitchen cleaning products

Safeguard your children by remembering to keep all harmful cleaning products where your kids can't reach them. That means not under the kitchen sink.

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