Where To Start With A Kitchen Renovation

With the kitchen being the ‘heart of the home’ for many, where all the family gather and home owners socialise with their guests, it’s important that this space is a room you can be proud of. Sometimes, this may mean that you need to renovate the room, whether it’s for sprucing the room up or creating a whole new design. So, where do you start with a kitchen renovation? We’ve put a short guide together to help you start with your kitchen renovation, below.

Create A Mood Board

When starting a home improvement project, a great place to start is a mood board. This allows you to put your ideas together and visualise them in one place, as you establish the style you are looking for in your new design. You can also see how colours fit together and add any designs that you find inspirational, such as whether you want to install a metod or IKEA faktum kitchen. If you’re unsure where to start with your mood board, then Instagram and Pinterest, as well as interior home magazines can provide you with some further ideas. When creating your mood board, this is also a good time to establish your ideal features, such as creating more storage, lighting features, flooring changes and even more worktop space.

Assess You Necessities

As previously mentioned, it’s imperative that you assess your necessities to ensure that your new kitchen works for you and your everyday tasks. You should think about the equipment you need to cook, if you do any other activities in the kitchen, such as paperwork and entertainment, how easy is it to access the bin and how much counter space you need.

You also need to consider what you don’t like about your existing kitchen and what you would change about it to make it work better for you. Think about the features that are missing, the layout, as well as the colours and styles you would like to include in your kitchen.

Set Project Goals

Once you have identified your necessities for your new space, the next step is to set project goals and the improvements you want to make. Your goals may be to use more energy-efficient appliances, update your kitchen fronts to a sleek-modern design, new tile flooring and even charging stations for electronics to make cooking easier.

Know Your Budget

When you know your necessities, you can then decide on your budget and where you want to allocate it. You will need to divide the budget up between the hardware and cabinets, the installation, appliances, work surfaces, the walls and ceilings, the flooring, the lighting, the design fees, doors and windows, the plumbing and then towards anything else. You need to work out the percentage of your budget that you want to target on each area. If the lighting or flooring is more important to you than the doors, then you can allocate your money to where you want the bigger focus. The most important thing is to make sure that you don’t go over your budget you have set. Therefore, if you want to spend more on the windows, for example, then you will need to cut back on another area of your kitchen renovation.

Hopefully, this short guide has given you some inspiration and ideas to where to start with your kitchen renovation, and your new kitchen build will be designed and installed seamlessly.