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Questions to start
thinking about.
How do you use your kitchen right now?
Include activities besides meal prep, serving, and clean-up.
What do you wish you could do in your kitchen?
What are the things in your kitchen that drive you batty?
Look back through some of our Kitchen Innovations.
Which ones can you see using in your kitchen?
Budget
Before meeting with a Kitchen Design Specialist it’s good to start
narrowing in on a number. A couple things that might help:
- A typical budget is usually between 5% and 15% of your home’s value.
- Cabinets are priced in “lineal feet,” found by measuring across the back of your lower cabinets against the wall.
A rough measurement will help you understand the real cost of different door styles.
Regret
Basing decisions on how your kitchen looks, and not how it works,
is a recipe for “Kitchen Regret.”
Cost overruns happen now and then. Sometimes we see people stay on budget by eliminating a feature their
guests don’t usually see—a Lazy Susan or auto-open wastebasket, for example—then kick themselves later,
after working in the kitchen day after day. Who uses your kitchen, and how? What will make their life better?
Answer as thoughtfully as you can.
