A Guide to Planning your Kitchen

Planning your new kitchen is no easy task! It is worth really taking your time to consider all the elements before you begin so that things go as smoothly as possible. There is more to your kitchen than just how it looks; you should spend time thinking about your everyday needs, as well as the style and design.

Your New Kitchen

The first thing you will decide on when planning a kitchen is whether you want to update your current kitchen or start over with a complete redesign. Look at what you already have, what you like and don’t like, and what you want to remove or keep. If the existing kitchen layout works, only change it if there is a real benefit – for example, if it increases the value of your home, or makes day to day life easier. However, if you want to completely overhaul your kitchen to make better use of the space available or wish to extend to create a larger, open-plan kitchen/living/dining area to suit your lifestyle and family needs then there is much to be gained from doing so.

Read more in the June issue…