Let Main Line Kitchen Design Help You Avoid A Kitchen Design Disaster.
Below is a list of the 10 worst ways to go about designing your new kitchen and creating a kitchen design disaster. The list was compiled from a LinkedIn dialog among professional kitchen designers. Thanks to all the kitchen designers that contributed their expertise and years of experience to come up with these top answers. Some of the anecdotes they told were hilarious, but that’s another blog all together. Hope you gain some insight from our list…and of course …….Bon Appetit! -Paul
Ten ways to assure a Kitchen Design Disaster
1) Design your kitchen yourself and then price out that unprofessional design many places.
2) Pay an architect to design your kitchen.
3) Purchase the appliances you are getting first and design around them.
4) Keep your existing floor plan exactly as it is now.
5) Hire the cheapest contractor.
6) Get your permits then layout the cabinets.
7) Don’t use fillers or flat stock in your design to allow for the ceiling and walls being out of square or out of level.
8) Make plans dependent on your kitchen being completed in an unrealistic time frame.
9) Rely on kitchen cabinetry information from Consumer Reports.
10) Design and buy your kitchen from IKEA
Experienced kitchen designers agree on many issues.
Certainly all the designers I know would agree on the list of ten things not to do when starting on a kitchen renovation. Doing almost any one of the things on our list will almost assure a kitchen design disaster.
Surprisingly, one thing that customers usually think is a good idea, namely hiring a architect to design a kitchen, is probably what most kitchen designers would agree is the biggest mistake. Architects that don’t work for kitchen cabinet dealers, know very little about kitchen design and almost nothing about cabinetry and the properties of the other materials that go into creating a durable and functional kitchen. As the saying goes “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”.
It is both dangerous and arrogant to design kitchens without learning the rules of kitchen design or about the properties of the products that home owners need to buy when remodeling a kitchen. This is why the designs that we see coming from architects are so poor.
If you listen to some of our podcasts you will find that fixing poor designs done by architects is a regular theme. One example is below:
Calls with Paul: The Kitchen Design Podcast. Episode 54 Designing a new home.
Read other blogs on kitchen design mistakes:
Famous TV kitchens with design problems. (mainlinekitchendesign.com)
TV Kitchens with Problems.
Buying Kitchen Cabinets Online? Read This First.
