Thinking about a kitchen Renovation? The Kitchen is the most important room in your home. It is the most valuable. Meaning it will add equity to your home in a very short time. In some areas it will add even more than you spend.
What to think about before you start…. The most important question and the hardest one is budget. Its the question no one wants to talk about. Mostly because we don’t know how much to spend or how to figure it out. We are afraid if we go to a cabinet shop with too high a number, they will find a way to spend it all, need or not. After all we are taught to negotiate a deal. You do that by holding out what you can afford till you the salesperson gives you a price. Right?
Unfortunately, this is not a good strategy for shopping for a kitchen Renovation. Why? Well the best way to explain it is that there are so many parts to a kitchen reno, you would have to be a kitchen expert with years of experience to properly evaluate the quotes. Things like the type of hardware, type of wood, plywood cabinets, or white melamine, appliances, countertops, pulls, and knobs etc…and those are just the obvious ones. You must realize this is the most important room in your house. Its often the first place you go in the morning, and the last at night. Statistic show it is where most important family decisions are made. You use fire, water and electricity in very close proximity. There is food, splashing, grease, cleaners and soap etc. that you use on fine furniture grade cabinets everyday. Lets not forget they need to fit and work with your appliances,
Can you imagine doing all of those things on your dining table? Cabinets are made with the same materials and finishes, as your fine wood furniture, yet they have to survive all of the above. Think about how much your dining table cost. You probably have between 15 to 30 cabinets in your kitchen. Each one hand crafted the way your dining table is. More engineering actually, as all the above function has to be considered. I know . . . . You just want your kitchen renovated. You just want to get the best deal. So the first thing you need is to find a plan.
Whether you are handy and want to do some of it yourself or you want someone to do it all for you. . . you still need A PLAN.
At the Design Room we start with helping you come up with your plan and your budget. If you are a DIY’er, you can take your plan and put it together on your own., use our DIY coaching.
We can help you with part of the job or do the whole project for you, its all up to you. We are not product driven so our goal is to help you, whatever that looks like.
We have saved our clients thousands of dollars in mistakes, do overs, and the regrets of living in a beautiful kitchen, that doesn’t function the way you and your family does.