Planning
When planning, remodeling and designing a kitchen, you need to make a few decisions that will help you better understand your kitchen needs. Here are some of the decisions you need to make:
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Creating Your Dream Kitchen |
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Family Lifestyle - A single person may prefer a smaller kitchen while a large family that uses the kitchen throughout the day needs a lot of storage space for groceries, and all the kitchen utensils, equipment, and appliances, along with the sitting area for the family.
Seating area - A small kitchen may have no seating area, or a small breakfast table, while a large kitchen may have the dinner table to seat the whole family. Or the kitchen may adjoin the dining/living room to make more space for dining and entertaining.
Appliance Locations - For example, the refrigerator should never be placed near the cooking area, due to the heat in the area. The proper place for the refrigerator is between the entrance of the kitchen and the cooking area where it is easily accessible.
Kitchen Design - An efficient kitchen allows you to move around easily and gives you enough space for all kitchen activities. Some of the designs are L-shaped, galley, U-shaped, two-way, and galley kitchens. |
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Getting Started The most important role of design is to make sure the project meets as many functional needs as possible. Therefore, the first step in designing your kitchen should be to list the things you want this room to do for you. Then brainstorm around these central uses. Having these two steps completed before you contact us will get your project off to a good start.
Below are planning pages you can print out and complete. Then for more information on how to make the decisions to design your kitchen just give us a call, and our design team can walk you through the process. They will be able to eliminate a lot of your questions and fears and simplify the process of getting you started towards the kitchen of your dreams..
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Measuring Your Kitchen In order to plan your new kitchen, it is very important that it is measured accurately. With this information, our kitchen specialists will be able to help design the kitchen of your dreams!
Floor Plan Before any planning can start we must know the exact dimensions available to work with. Using the measuring procedure illustrated, carefully prepare a simple floor plan of your existing kitchen. Your completed floor plan should resemble the diagram shown below. Make sure you show exact locations of doors, windows, hood vents, exhaust, gas line, water line, drains, switches, outlets, light fixtures, and heat vents. Double check all measurements.
Measuring Procedure
Using a tape measure and graph paper, measure as outlined below.
Horizontal Measurement 1. Measure parameter of room. 2. Measure from corner to window or door opening. 3. Measure across openings from trim edge to trim edge. 4. Measure from edge of trim to far wall. Compare sum of #2, #3 and #4 measurements to step #1. 5. Mark exact location of water, drain, gas lines and electrical outlets and switches on drawing. (Optional) 6. Measure from wall to wall above window and compare to #1. Vertical Measurement 7. Measure from floor to window sill. 8. Measure from window sill to top of window. 9. Measure from top of window to ceiling. 10. Measure from floor to ceiling – Compare to sum of #7, #8 and #9.
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The Finished Design Once you bring us your kitchen layout drawing, bring it to our showroom. Here the drawing will be discussed and any possible changes can be made. A computerized 3-dimensional layout will be presented. This will give you a realistic rendering of your dream kitchen |
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