When To Consider Kitchen Remodelling In Your Home

Older homes often suffer from outdated kitchens with poor layouts, dated appliances, old flooring, and cabinets or countertops not well suited to the needs of the modern home chef. Kitchen remodeling can be an excellent way to deal with an older kitchen design, and how far you go is entirely up to you as the homeowner. 

Getting Started

Kitchen remodeling often starts with design changes and creating a blueprint or layout for the changes you want or need. Working with a kitchen designer to determine what you want to change and how to lay out the space can be beneficial and save a lot of time during the design phase. 

The design portion of the remodel is when you will choose the new cabinets, flooring, paint color, countertops, and appliances for the space. It can take the most time but is essential to the process and makes things easier when your contractor starts work on your new kitchen space. 

Many home centers and kitchen stores have designers that can lay out the space in a computer program for you, make changes, and show you the results. Using this method allows you to see the changes in real time, allowing you to try several layouts until you find one that is right for your needs.

Demolition Work

Kitchen remodeling often requires some demolition of the existing space, and once you finish your plan, the contractor can remove all the old materials to make way for the new ones. The demolition often happens much faster than the rest of the job unless you are keeping the cabinets and other items to recycle or sell after they come out of the kitchen.

The amount of demolition necessary often depends on how extensive the kitchen remodeling will be. Adding or removing walls or changing where water lines, gas lines, or electrical outlets will be may require a tear-out of the studs for access to everything behind the sheetrock.

Rebuilding Your Kitchen

Once the demo is complete, the kitchen remodeling contractor you are working with can start to put the new space together. Often this starts with making changes necessary to electrical and plumbing, then closing up the walls and installing the new flooring in the space. 

The cabinets and appliances are typically the last few things to go into the new kitchen, and countertops will often wait until just before the installation of sinks, cooktops, or anything that sits on or goes through the countertop material. Kitchen remodeling can take several months to complete, but having a plan and picking all the new items before the work starts will help speed things up. 

Talk to your contractor if you have any questions along the way, and set a deadline for them to work to that can help create a sense of urgency and keep the project moving to meet these goals. For more information on kitchen remodeling, contact a professional near you.