Kitchen Design Planning Guide – Remodeling Checklist & Tips
Creating a detailed kitchen design plan allows you and your Encore designer to achieve the gourmet kitchen of your dreams. Encore Construction offers you various kitchen remodeling tips we’ve learned during our 25 years of home redesign.
Identifying Your Top Three Priorities
Devise a kitchen remodeling checklist identifying your top three priorities. This will help you and your designer create the kitchen of your dreams by transforming your space to accommodate...
- Your growing family and all the changes life brings
- Your entertaining style — business or pleasure
- Your wish to recreate your personal space
Achieving Your Vision: Know Yourself and Your Individual Style
Have you created a ‘Wish Book’ of notes, photos and ideas that you would like to use in your new kitchen? Some ideas to ponder when creating your kitchen design plan...
- Your willingness to explore other options if a design can be improved with simple and complex structural changes
- Your taste, whether it be traditional, contemporary, eclectic or transitional
- Your wants, needs and must haves and defining the difference between them
Considering Your Budget
No one wants to divulge a budget, and coming up with a realistic budget can be very difficult. This is an emotional and financial investment where you will want to develop an open and trusting relationship with your designer in order to establish...
- Your understanding of the project, including the many people involved in bringing it to fruition.
- Your ability to amortize the cost of your investment vs. the time of ownership
- Your ideal comfort level given a realistic budget – when you and your designer review your kitchen remodeling checklist, discuss which items are priorities that must be factored into the budget
Distinguishing Your Cooking ‘Technique’
When creating your kitchen design plan, take the time to examine how you move through your kitchen. This can help you realize the positive changes that are possible, and may enlighten you to some must-haves for your kitchen remodeling checklist. Your inspiration can come from something as simple as a teapot to as complex as a restaurant-style kitchen. Investigate...
- Your appliance choices — new or existing, conventional or professional
- Your ease of movement through your current space: is it efficient or exhausting?
- Your command of the space, who’s cooking and how many hands stir the pot with you
Timing Is Everything
This is one of the most important kitchen remodeling tips. From concept to completion the process will take a minimum of three months. It is a well thought out process where goals and expectations will be set between you and your designer. You should discern...
- Your ideal start and completion date
- Your current schedule including any major life events and holidays
- Your plans during the construction phase
