The kitchen space in house is the prime area. It is work space in which several activities such as cooking, washing utensils, cleaning, storing, maintenance of equipment and supplies etc. are performed. The kitchen environment should be usable as well as comfortable. This is possible only with the well planned kitchens. Good planning is an essential for the efficiency of a kitchen. Now a day’s even if there is lot of importance given to modular kitchen design and installation within the builder provided apartment spaces, optimization of space within the given area becomes important. Many a times the user personas are completely ignored and one size fits all kind of approach is seen. Thus it creates poor organization and problems for efficient working. The aim is to study Indian kitchens, with the modular kitchen segment, in context of the Indian urban users and to analyze the problems faced by them to propose design interventions that can be adopted and implemented to eliminate or reduce problems of poor ergonomics and poor organization. Thus this study addresses the ergonomic considerations while designing kitchen space with respect to kitchen platform type and usage requirement and it focuses on the contemporary kitchen spatial experiences and try to identify the problems faced by the users. The study is conducted by selecting Pune city as urban context and kitchen space users in apartments in multistoried building units by doing a qualitative research study by survey and using questionnaire and focused group interview. A method used to select sample is a non-probability quota. The respondents are of age group 30 to 55 and all are residing and using kitchen space for everyday cooking activities. The questionnaire survey is done and data is analyzed. At second stage pre scheduled interviews are conducted in the user’s environment and using interview technique field observations are noted. Both qualitative and quantitative data is analyzed and findings were noted. Design Guidelines are suggested using reference literature and standardized and established design solutions