Things To Consider Before You Remodel Your Kitchen

Tired of the old kitchen and its old cabinets? Have you been poring over home improvement magazines, blogs, and articles while dreaming about a new kitchen that looks as good as the food you cook? Here are some things to consider before getting on the bandwagon.

If there’s one thing that you need to keep in mind while deciding upon your kitchen remodel, it’s this: Your kitchen should reflect your personality, your style of cooking and your design sensibilities. That said, the new design for your kitchen cannot stand out like a sore thumb when viewed with the rest of your home decor. You should aim to blend the new design within the existing decor of your home, while at the same time including smart storage solutions that avoid the over-cluttered look most kitchens wind up with. And, discussions about the right kind of furniture and other design elements like light fixtures and trends like open shelving are best left for another time. In this article, let’s focus on getting the skeleton of your kitchen remodels correct.

What’s Your Kitchen Style

Take a moment to close your eyes and envision your new kitchen. How does it look and feel? How would you describe this mental image? Would you call it roomy and classy, with the potential to entertain big parties often? Or, is it a quiet nook that invites you to de-stress and relax at the end of a long day? Everything in your kitchen should be a part of that vision you build: Whether it’s a gourmet kitchen or a country-style kitchen that offers homely warmth; does it contain sleek stainless-steel appliances or something more custom made?

Best Bang For Your Buck

One battle that you might be facing is the one between cost and value. Are the things you’re buying worth the money? How good is the quality and will they stand the test of time? So, make sure you look at varying price points for every single product and make a wise choice. Make a list of existing problems in your kitchen and understand how everything you buy will help you deal with those problems while keeping tabs on the cost factor all along.

Speed Doesn’t Guarantee Quality

We get it - you’re dying to start using your sparkling new kitchen and show it off to the world. The fact that you need to live in a significantly reduced space, thanks to all the construction work, is not helping either. In this state of mind, it seems almost right to say yes to anything and everything your contractor presents you with. Don’t! Stop yourself from rushing into hasty decisions that you’ll regret later on.

Your contractor isn’t the one who has to live with all the decisions you make during the remodel. It’s important to be mentally prepared to wait it out for as long as it takes or until the remodel has been completed to your satisfaction. You’d thank yourself later on when your family enjoys their new kitchen and your friends cannot stop exclaiming over how amazing your kitchen is.

Never Lose Touch With Your Why

A kitchen remodel is definitely the blank canvas waiting for your personality to convert it into a work of art. However, to believe that a new kitchen will bring forth a new you is just plain wishful thinking. You need to remember that you will still be you even after your kitchen’s new design has made it unrecognizable. So, if in the past you were someone who hardly cooked or threw dinner parties, then it’s highly likely that a fancy kitchen won’t suddenly make you the new social butterfly on the block.

Similarly, if you’re someone who made it pretty obvious you cooked, then the new marble countertop won’t clean up on its own. Instead, stay in touch with your cooking personality and remind yourself why you decided to remodel your kitchen now. Did you need more storage space for all those exotic spices you can’t stop hoarding? Do you have kids who will soon be old enough to make their own simple meals? Or, did you need more room to accommodate your growing list of friends who come over for dinner? Your kitchen remodels should reflect all these things and some more.

Nobody Said It Was Easy

When you set out on a remodeling journey, it’s quite easy to get paralyzed by all the analysis you naturally do. After all, there loads of things to consider before you begin such a project, especially one that aims to reinvent the busiest space in your house.

Having said that, it’s also equally important to take a step back and analyze your needs and desires with a clinical eye and go for only those things your budget and current lifestyle can truly accommodate. Once you’ve spent the money, you know it isn’t going to come back - so, the more real and functional your plan, the better it will work out for you in the long run. If you play your cards right, you might just wind up with the kitchen that everybody can’t get enough of.

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