Your kitchen is the heart of your home. It should be both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Renovating your kitchen will increase your home’s value and make it a more enjoyable place for you to live. Before starting your remodel, it’s important to think ahead and plan accordingly.
This checklist will provide you with a roadmap for your kitchen remodel with Kingswood Designs. Using this list, you’ll be able to achieve the kitchen of your dreams!
Plan Your Project
- List everything you hope to achieve in your remodel
- Make sure your lifestyle, likes, and dislikes are listed
- Decide what’s necessary and what items are on your “wish list”
- Think about what you consider to be most important in a kitchen
- Determine whether you’ll be getting new appliances or re-using your existing appliances
- Gather ideas you like from magazines, Pinterest, etc.
- Plan for what you’ll do without the use of your kitchen during the remodel
Assess Your Needs
- Determine whether you have any special storage needs
- Identify if there are any traffic bottlenecks or areas that accumulate clutter
- Identify your cooking style, whether professional, casual or occasional
- Consider whether different areas should be larger or smaller
- Consider a timeframe that works for your schedule
- Think about which materials you’d like for flooring, sinks, countertops, cabinets, and backsplash
- Have a clear idea of the features in your current kitchen that you’d like to keep and those you’d like to change
- Identify other activities besides cooking that happen in your kitchen
- Consider the future and how your needs will change over time
- Consider the age and condition of your home
- Develop your budget
- Determine the value of your home
- Include a 20% buffer in your budget for unexpected expenses
Hire a Professional
- Conduct online searches and seek reviews
- Choose a contractor, like Kingswood Designs, who is licensed and insured
- Check your contractor’s license and insurance, and verify the validity of their documents
- Ask whether they have full-time employees, like Kingswood Designs, or if they work with subcontractors
- Call references
- Ask whether they clean up the job site at the end of each working day
- The contractor’s property damage liability and insurance coverage information
- With a single source remodeler like Kingswood Designs, your designer will manage your entire project from start to finish
Create a Kitchen Design
- Discuss your requirements and vision with your designer
- Work with your selected designer to develop a detailed layout
- Settle on the layout that will prove to be functional and fit for your lifestyle
Kitchen styles to consider:
- Sleek/contemporary
- Traditional
- Rustic
- Formal
- Informal
Tap Into Your Style
Kitchen Countertop types to consider:
- Granite countertops
- Zodiaq® Quartz Countertops
- Mont Quartz Countertops
- Corian® Countertops
Kitchen flooring types to consider:
- Porcelain Tile
- Hardwood
- Engineered Wood
- Wood plank tile
- Luxury Vinyl Tile
Kitchen cabinet lines to consider:
Kitchen sink materials to consider:
- Stainless Steel
- Coated cast iron
- Composite
Kitchen sink features to consider:
- Undermount sink application
- Soap dispenser
- Faucet
- Filtered water dispenser
- Single or double bowl
- Garbage disposal
Kitchen lighting and electrical features to consider:
Kitchen finishes to consider:
- Stainless Steel
- Brushed Nickel
- Polished Chrome
- Venetian Brass
- Oil-rubbed bronze
Special features to consider:
- Appliance panels
- Wainscot panels
- Crown moldings
- Fluted or turned columns
- Furniture kicks
- Wine cooler
- Television
- Island stools
- Butler’s pantry
- Walk-in pantry
- Coffee ‘bar’
Review the contract
Review the contract to ensure it covers all the important elements including:
- A detailed description of the project
- Responsible party for drawing permits and submitting paperwork necessary for inspection, if applicable
- Materials to be used
- Brand names of products
- Payment amounts and due dates
- Warranties and guarantees for the final product and craftsmanship
- The contractor’s property damage liability and insurance coverage information
Construction Stage
- Have a temporary kitchen or consider your dining out options
- Make room for the renovation team’s vehicles and materials by clearing out your driveway and garage
If you’re planning to remodel your kitchen, you need a partner you can trust. Kingswood Designs delivers on all projects they complete with unprecedented quality. Our installers are full-time employees whose priority is to provide quality services from start to finish. Contact us for more information. If you can dream it, you can have it!
