Kitchen Renovation Tips

Kitchen Renovation Tips:

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Renovating your kitchen will add ease to your lifestyle and value to your home. What makes a kitchen memorable is what happens in it, and we should be doing everything possible to not only sit down and eat together, but to also cook together. Here are the 8 most important things to consider when you’re updating your kitchen.

1-Kitchen Style

Whether you’re designing your kitchen to match the decor of other rooms, or planning your whole home’s look around the kitchen, you can make it a beautiful reflection of your personal style.
The design of your kitchen may be classic or contemporary, country farmhouse, cottage charm, Mediterranean, casual or formal. Picking a very specific design theme gives you even more of a design road map and selects a style that suits your tastes and lifestyle best.

Kitchen Style

2-The Work Triangle

The kitchen work triangle connects the three main work areas in the kitchen: the sink, the range and the refrigerator. Efficiency is the triangle’s main goal, as it keeps all the major work stations near the cook, without placing them so close that the kitchen becomes cramped. The work triangle is also designed to minimize traffic within the kitchen so the cook isn’t interrupted or interfered with.

The Work Triangle

3-Cabinets

Choose cabinets and hardware wisely so that your new kitchen will look great. You can keep your existing cabinets or to replace them. Depending on how they’re constructed and how much they can be customized, cabinets fall into three basic categories: stock, semicustom, and custom. The right cabinet choices will help make the room efficient and easy to use.

Cabinets

4-Countertops

Choosing the right kitchen countertop can be an important process. In addition to material, there’s also color, layout and function to consider. You want a countertop that is water resistant, durable, and easy to maintain. You don’t have to use the same material for every counter space. A durable surface such as soapstone, granite or Caesar stone is great near the stove and sinks where stains are more likely to occur. If you like a more porous stone like marble use it where spills can be minimized, like an island.

Countertops

5-Backsplashes

If you want to refresh your kitchen but can’t afford a full-scale remodel, a smart place to start is with tiling a backsplash. The tiles you choose to spruce up the wall space between the countertop and cabinets and above the range should showcase the color scheme and theme of your kitchen. The floor, countertop and backsplash must all work together for your kitchen to have an even, balanced look. Keep in mind that the backsplash should not be treated as a separate entity to the overall space. All elements need to work to create an overall effect.

Backsplashes

6-Appliances

These include the standard refrigerator, stove, and dishwasher. Appliances, alone, do not make a kitchen. But, they just might be the most important aspect of your space. After all, the kitchen’s primary function is for preparing and cooking meals. If you have limited kitchen storage space, it’s important to allocate it wisely by owning appliances that have multiple uses. Scrutinize your appliances to make sure their uses are robust and not one-note.

Appliances

7-Flooring

Choosing the right flooring may seem like a daunting decision. It’s a process that combines your personal taste with careful thinking about practicality. A kitchen floor needs to be comfortable underfoot, watertight, slip resistant, hard to damage, and easy to clean. Good choices for kitchen flooring are linoleum, ceramic tile and wood. Flooring needs to work well with the other design elements in your kitchen.

Flooring

8-Lighting

The key to good kitchen lighting is to rely on a cast of lighting sources and to layer your lights, mixing ambient, task, and accent or decorative lighting with natural light. While kitchen lighting has traditionally consisted of ceiling lights or recessed fixtures, pendant lamps and chandeliers are increasingly popular. Depending on the size of your space, you may want a mix of fixtures.