| Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 1: | | | | Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 6: |
| Cut out pictures of kitchen designs you like and want | | | | Measuring your kitchen; use as long a tape measure |
| to copy. Seek out a good kitchen designer to help | | | | as you can - using a one foot rule to measure a ten |
| you transfer these ideas into working kitchen plans. | | | | foot wall will reduce the accuracy. Do not include any |
| Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 2: | | | | walls that will not be kept in the final layout. |
| Small kitchens; laundry equipment takes up a lot of | | | | Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 7: |
| space; a washing machine and a dryer (if you have | | | | Water system changes; if you change your hot |
| both) take up around 600mm per appliance. That's | | | | water system from an indirect one (immersion heater |
| 1200mm for both. Can they go elsewhere? Can the | | | | in the airing cupboard) to a direct one (combi-boiler |
| dryer go on top of the washing machine? Can they | | | | tucked away somewhere to make more space) you |
| go in the bathroom? You may want to invest in a | | | | will possibly change the system water pressure. This |
| dual function washer/dryer. | | | | change may be better than before or, it may be |
| Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 3: | | | | worse. |
| Try to keep all your storage areas together in one | | | | Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 8: |
| part of the kitchen. This may seem an obvious | | | | Placement of the fridge; the fridge is the most |
| statement but many a time we have come across | | | | visited appliance to place in the kitchen work triangle |
| kitchens with food stored in many different cabinets | | | | because everyone goes there for something. The |
| and different parts of the kitchen just to "fill the | | | | children go there for ice pops, dad goes there for |
| available space". | | | | the cold beers; - everyone goes to the fridge! As a |
| Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 4: | | | | consequence the positioning of the fridge is very |
| Cold storage appliances; allocate as much space and | | | | important and needs a lot of fore thought. |
| money to as large a fridge as can be afforded. You | | | | Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 9: |
| may have noticed that many condiments should be | | | | If you have to take delivery of appliances before |
| stored in a cool place after opening - this helps them | | | | you intend to use them try to get the supplier to |
| keep longer; fruit and vegetables will also last longer | | | | come back to install it as this will ensure the product |
| in a fridge or larder. The American style | | | | is installed to the manufacturer's instructions. The |
| fridge-freezers have been an absolute boon for | | | | suppliers of "white goods" such as fridges and |
| storage of modern day packaged food. | | | | freezers, know that about 7% of new machines will |
| Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 5: | | | | faulty at the time of the initial installation. The |
| Cabinet storage under the sink: There is much | | | | guarantee should not commence until the installation |
| wasted space in a 1000mm wide cabinet that houses | | | | date and demonstration that it is in full working order. |
| the sink and drainer unit. This is caused by the | | | | Kitchen Remodeling Tip # 10: |
| amount of room taken up with P-trap waste and | | | | Kitchen washing facilities; if you do not already have |
| other pipe-work around the sink. Install a 600mm | | | | two sinks in the kitchen, consider separating the |
| cabinet under the sink instead. The sink will drop | | | | general washing from food washing areas. If your |
| straight into the top of the 600mm unit. Then place | | | | kitchen incorporates laundry washing, this can reduce |
| another 600mm next to it under the drainer section. | | | | the risk of cross-contamination from soiled clothing to |
| You now have the full use of all the space in the | | | | food items. This takes some real thought and |
| adjacent unit which is free from sink related | | | | remember, the primary function of a kitchen is for |
| pipe-work. | | | | the preparation of food. |