Kitchen Layout Designs Facts You'Ll Need
You finally have got your money just right and you and your family are seriously thinking about taking a look at kitchen remodel layouts. But you have seen several ads down at the home improvement store that claims that their in-store designers and installers can handle “everything hassle-free”.
But you aren’t sure. Is it true that these companies will take care of your kitchen layout design along with all the problems of installation?
…No, not quite. What these companies mean is that they will do a better job of installation than you could do yourself, but their kitchen layout designs will follow pretty cut and dried standards no matter if they say your “kitchen layout and design will be custom made”.
Think about if for a moment if every new or remodeled kitchen in the country were in fact “custom made” most construction project would cost more than any one family could afford. What they mean is that they will measure up your house and then find kitchen layout designs that sort of meet your requirements but will also sell you, their most expensive cabinetry or appliances if they can.
Now don’t get mad at the home improvement designer. You have to understand that their job is based on how much they sell not on well satisfied you are with their kitchen layout design. What you need to do is to short cut this sale process. This means you should only visit the home designer once you have all your ideas completely hammered out.
Basic Kitchen Layout Designs
Despite all the magazine pictures and the hundreds of hours of watching home shows on television, there are in fact only five basic kitchen layouts or designs: the One-wall, the Galley, the “L-Shape”, the “U-Shape” and the Island. You can research online which one would be best for your family’s lifestyle and the structure of your kitchen.
By choosing one of these layouts before hand you can easily get the best rock bottom prices for your kitchen makeover. How you do this is fairly simple. First you need to measure all your walls, windows, doorways and cabinets in your current kitchen layout design. Now you must is to make or find a measured floor plan. A floor plan is drawn to scale typically in 1/4” = 1 foot.
You can record your preliminary sketches on graph paper. You will first record the wall’s length in at least three places: once at the ceiling, another time 48 inches from the floor and finally at the floor level. Also measure the wall from floor to ceiling.
Now you can use these sketches to plot the location of any electrical outlet and pipe fittings. You can now take these rough kitchen layout designs down to the home improvement store and by yourself look at cabinet doors, fittings, lighting and flooring. Write the measurements while in the store or use the store website to find out specifics.
You can use web-based or computer installed kitchen layout software to create you own “floor plan” displaying the cabinets and fixtures in the order you want them. Now you can take these sketches along with your fixture and appliance list the in-store designer and tell them what you want.
Using these tips mentioned above, you should be able to price out a kitchen layout design that suits your budget.
