New Delhi, May 11 -- The open kitchen is not just a layout anymore - it is a lifestyle flex where Sunday brunch spills into a work meeting, where playlists bounce off tiled backsplashes and where life just kind of happens without boundaries. However, for all the freedom an open kitchen offers, it also exposes everything - your clutter, your chaos, your once-charming but now squeaky drawer that has not shut properly since the last heatwave.

So the real question is not whether you want an open kitchen - it is whether yours deserves to be seen. In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Naveen Chowdhry, Director at Inox Decor Pvt. Ltd., shared, "If it's going to live wide open, it needs to look intentional. That starts with eliminating the visual n...