Kitchen Design, Part 1

Bob Smith: Hi! I’m Bob Smith with Home Remodel Workshop so you’d decided to remodel your kitchen; I will show you where to get started. The single most important thing about starting a kitchen project is communication, you and your wife or your significant other or whoever’s using the kitchen with you needs to have some input and what needs to be done. You both may have agreed for a long time that the kitchen needs to be redone but you may have completely different reasons why you want it redone. So first do a walk through with your spouse or significant other and identify what this reasons are that the kitchen needs to be redone, keeping in mind that every change that you make will come with an expense. After some discussion we came up with the few decisions that we’re made, the refrigerator although it’s a little bit older it’s in great working order and it would be a considerable expense to replace it we’re going to go ahead and keep it. Also up here on top neither one of dislike that the cabinet is recess back it requires junk in front of it we would like this cabinet brought forward. As far as spaces concern these are 30 inch tall cabinets and we could with 36 inch tall cabinet which we pick it up an extra shelves and all the wall cabinets and also we could trim it off to the ceiling which would eliminate that sofa. For the countertop we would like an upgraded countertop to basically just get it back up for speed as for as the dating. There is no dishwasher in this kitchen that is a critical ceiling point when we go to sell the house in a few years so we will have the design in for a dishwasher. The drop in stainless sink is all that is not deep enough and there are many other different designs that we would like better. The faucet is a newer faucet, it may not be the most up to date design but it would save us about 3 to $400 to keep it so we’re going to go ahead and keep it. As we move across here to the microwave, the microwave is a newer microwave and the oven is a newer oven so we are also keep this appliances but we are going to eliminate this gaps that are on both sides of the microwave and at the bottom and hopefully that will help as pick up more space to put cabinets in. Although this area of our kitchen is design to have a small table here, we both feel that the space would be better use if we’re to get a few more or maybe shallower tight base cabinets and maybe an additional wall cabinet in this corner to pick up additional space. Also we have a vinyl floor which is very dated, we would much rather a tile or a hardwood floor put down. Although this kitchen is small the ceiling fan doesn’t provide adequate lighting and we would like to see a parameter can lighting maybe on a dimmer switch so we can control the brightness, so there you go communication is the key, know where you want to go with your project and you have to make some determination as far as financing on how much you want to spend on this project. Are you going to be staying here for awhile and enjoying the kitchen or are you just fixing it up for resell that could affect the scope of the project. Other than that good luck with you project and this is going to be a serious of many on design that this is just the very first phase so keeping for new postings if you like subscribe and don’t be send directly to your channel. Other than that have a great day.