July 11, 2024
If you’re redesigning a kitchen at the moment where does a kitchen charging station fall into your list of design priorities?
It’s highly likely your lifestyle and behavior has gone through massive changes since the last time you designed a kitchen (if you have before) or how the last kitchen you’re in was designed to be used. The biggest of these changes is most likely our interaction and all-day reliance on smart phones to stay ‘connected’ to each other.
Given how much time we’ve always spent in our kitchens and the new importance of smart phones in today’s society, kitchen’s are also being asked to act as the charging station hubs to the home putting a bigger constraint on the space available to both cook and digitally recharge. The result today is usually a mishmash of kitchen appliances, gadget baskets, tech trays, adapters and wires that leave us with less countertop space and a stress of a cluttered kitchen.
To get away from this chaos, there are number of solutions in the market include charging drawers, plug towers and multi plug adapters, USB hubs with multiple wires hanging out like these:
There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with these solutions and they all have their benefits in how they work but they can also pose new problems that:
Using your countertops to create a hidden kitchen charging station through wireless charging is fast becoming an easy and viable solution your fabricator or kitchen retailer can offer you using a Kew Labs UTS-2 Invisible Wireless Charger. Once installed, simply place the phone on the countertop when you’re not using it and you’re always getting a charge!
Utilising your countertop as a wireless charging countertop compared to other options allows you to:
