Steps To Follow Before a Kitchen Remodel, Part 2
Many people dream of remodeling their kitchens to create the kitchen of their dreams. After all, you spend a lot of time in the kitchen, cooking nutritious meals for your family. You want your kitchen to be comfortable and easy to use. You want your kitchen to be intuitive and efficient. You want to truly make your kitchen a place you want to be in. But where do you start in the kitchen remodeling process?
Showcase Kitchens has been designing custom kitchens for over 80 years. As a family-owned and operated business in Long Island, our custom kitchens have been winning awards for decades. We are experts at looking at your space, taking your dreams, and meshing the two together to create everything you ever could have wanted in a custom kitchen. In our last blog post, we offered up tips on the initial process of custom kitchen design, from putting a list together of your must-haves to determining your custom kitchen renovation budget. In this blog post, we’ll continue the steps in the initial process of a custom kitchen remodel before you pick up a sledgehammer. Contact us today for a complimentary consultation!
MORE STEPS IN CUSTOM KITCHEN REMODELING DESIGN PROCESS
Hire the Pros
Many people make the mistake of DIY-ing their kitchen remodel. While this is understandable since it’s an effort to save money, most of the time, this is what pushes people over their budgets. When you DIY your custom kitchen renovation, you end up making mistakes — costly mistakes — that professional custom kitchen remodeling companies, such as Showcase Kitchens in Long Island, don’t make. For example, if you try to install your own flooring, you could end up spending more money in the long run. This is because installing flooring is not as easy as it sounds, plus it takes up your valuable time you could be spending elsewhere. Hence, you’ll not only make mistakes that cost you time, but you may make mistakes that only a professional can fix, which is twice as much as if you just would have hired a professional custom kitchen remodeling company in the first place. Since we offer free consultations, we can give you a good idea of our custom kitchen renovation services, and then you will have all the information you need to decide if you want to hire us.
Make Alternative Arrangements
Now that you’ve got your custom kitchen remodel plan in place and you’ve hired a professional to oversee all the work, you’re ready to prepare your home. Showcase Kitchens will advise you on what to do throughout the entire process; however, there are general must-do items to do to prepare for a custom kitchen remodel.
Cooking. Your kitchen at some point in the remodeling process (maybe from the beginning, depending on the work you want done) will render your custom kitchen unuseable. You’ll need a plan for meals when that happens, as well as for the refrigerator. You can choose to eat out during this time, or use your grill and a camping stove as an alternative. You can move your old refrigerator, say out to the garage for example, so you can still have access to food and drinks, while your custom kitchen remodel is being done. There are many solutions to living without a kitchen for a time; choose the one that will work for you and your family.
Set up a mini-kitchen. Many families opt to turn a different room in their home into a mini-kitchen, complete with a mini-fridge, microwave, cooking stove, and, of course, coffee pot. This can be the best alternative since you will still have access to your much-needed and favorite food options.
Find a place to eat. Showcase Kitchens in Long Island recommends that you set up a place to eat your meals. This can be the dining room if that room is not part of the kitchen renovation process. However, some families just eat in their living rooms as well.
Paper plates are your friends. Invest in paper plates and disposable silverware for the time-being, even though this is not the most environmentally-friendly choice. However, it will save you time and effort if you don’t have access to a dishwasher or a sink of some sort to wash dishes in.
If eating out, consider this a part of your kitchen renovation budget. Eating out can get pricey, so consider this as part of your kitchen remodeling costs.
Watch the pets. If you have toddlers in the home, keeping them out of the kitchen during the kitchen remodeling process may be hard enough, but you throw in Fido and Fluffy and you could be in some serious trouble. Showcase Kitchens in Long Island recommends that you either find some way to contain your pets, such as with gates and such, or consider kenneling them in the custom kitchen remodeling process, especially during the more labor-intensive times when contractors are coming in and out of your home.
Prepare for Dust and Noise
Anytime you are banging away on a home, there will be noise and dust. This is something you should consider, especially if you have young children in the house who nap, or you work from home. There may be days where you vacate the house completely during the day, working at your local coffee house or taking the kids to the zoo instead. Remodeling your kitchen will call for some sort of disruption to your normal routine that you should be prepared for.
THE SHOWCASE KITCHENS DIFFERENCE IN LONG ISLAND
Showcase Kitchens is the best custom kitchen designer in Long Island. With over 80 years of making people’s custom kitchen ideas spring to life, Showcase Kitchens knows what to expect in a custom kitchen remodel and how to prepare. We have kitchen showrooms in Massapequa and Manhasset so you can get ideas for what your custom kitchen will look like. We also have hundreds of pictures on our website of our customers’ completed designs, which often will provide you with a spark of inspiration for your custom kitchen design.
When you partner with Showcase Kitchens in Long Island for your custom kitchen design, we will handle all of the details so you can handle all of the disruptions to your daily life. Our custom kitchen design team is the best in the business in bringing the best ideas, appliances, custom kitchen islands and cabinets, and coordinating contractors to complete the job. We work quickly and efficiently to minimize disruptions to your life. Contact us today for a complimentary custom kitchen design consultation, and see for yourself how Showcase Kitchens can make your kitchen come alive!