Thursday, April 7, 2011

Building Your Dream Kitchen

There is nothing like owning your own home. After months of searching for the perfect home, you found the one that most closely fit in with your dreams with a few caveats. The one thing that you really didn't care for that much was the kitchen, the cabinets were old school and the entire layout just did not feel right to you, but the rest of the of the was exactly what you wanted.

Kitchen
Photo: Jeremy Levine Design

So you bought the house with the idea that one day you would get around to completely remodeling the kitchen and building it your way. At first the plans had to be put on hold as you were getting moved in and trying to recover from all the expenses of buying a home that left your bank account pretty well drained.


This was followed by a period of complacency as you started to raise a family and were just as happy to leave well enough alone. The idea of tearing your kitchen apart with little ones running around somehow did not appeal to you so once again your dream kitchen got place on a back burner in the hopes that someday you would finally get around to the complete kitchen remodeling project you have been dreaming of since the day you bought the house.

The only other possible excuse for not remodeling your kitchen can only be the cost of buying the new kitchen cabinets you are going to need to create the space and the look you are after. This one reason has stopped more people from being able to complete their kitchen remodeling project than any other reason.

While cost is always going to be a factor, you need to learn how to shop for your new kitchen cabinets and to take advantage of everything that is available to you to help you with your project that can help you pull it off. Not only to pull it off, but to do so inside of your budget and get the exact look and style you had in mind when you bought your house in the first place.

kitchen cabinets
Photo: palindrome6996

One thing that you need to keep in mind is that the biggest part of any kitchen remodeling project is the planning. The more time and effort you spend in the planning phase the more money you can save and the more likely you are to be satisfied with the end result. This cannot be stressed enough as far too many people end up dissatisfied with their final results because they did not take the time to fully plan and visualize the final results of their remodeling project before the tore out the first cabinet.

Toda you can actually work with your cabinet supplier and use their software to help you see a three dimensional view of how your kitchen is going to look when you are done. You can do this with any of their cabinets and your choice of colors. You can rearrange everything on the screen so that you can see how different plans are going to look before you spend a single penny.

There is nothing better than being able to see how different kitchen cabinets will make your kitchen look on computer screen. It gives you a chance to see every choice and option for your new kitchen and how they are going to affect the way it will look when completed, long before you get started. This has become the most popular way to plan a kitchen and is used by many professional remodeling contractors to show their clients what their kitchen will look like and to make any changes needed.

The most important part of any kitchen remodeling project is of course the kitchen cabinets. Other than new appliances, your new cabinets are likely to be your biggest expense. Even so there are ways that you can save money and still get superior quality cabinets that are going to make you dream kitchen come true after all these years.

At Cabinets to Go we offer a complete range of kitchen cabinets that are made from real woods, not particle board. You can get 10 feet of upper and lower cabinets in a range of woods and finishes starting at just under $1,900 and going up to $2,400. You can pick them up at one of our stores or use our online kitchen planner and have your new kitchen cabinets delivered directly to your door so that you can finally complete that kitchen remodeling project you have been putting off for far too many years.

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