We want you to be ready to take on your kitchen remodeling project confidently. The first step in our kitchen planning guide is finding out what you need to know about and what you need to be prepared to decide before you begin a kitchen remodeling project.
In addition to budgeting, invest time and energy into planning before you pick up any tools. Every minute you spend now will decrease the likelihood that you’ll encounter surprises and stress later. Planning on paper is way less expensive than trying out ideas full-scale in real time.
It’s also helpful to find out about common kitchen remodeling mistakes so you can avoid expensive delays and frustrations later.
How to Create a Family Kitchen For All to Enjoy
A family kitchen needs to be comfortable, delightful, and easy for food prep. Our key design strategies help you plan and create your kitchen for your home.
What You Need to Know: Top Kitchen Renovation Challenges
Keeping a kitchen well-functioning and pleasant is one of the best things you can do for a home. Here are some of the key kitchen renovation challenges.
Kitchen remodeling tips: How to achieve your vision with less stress
Looking for kitchen remodeling tips to make the entire process easier? We’ve got a few that will help you achieve your vision while decreasing your stress.
Make Meals Easier for Alzheimer’s with Easy Design Tips
These easy home design tips can make meals easier for Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Mealtime will be less stressful for everyone.
Design can reduce stress in the kitchen for an Alzheimer’s household.
There are ways you can make your kitchen reduce stress for you and your Alzheimer’s loved one. Kitchens are usually a flurry of activity and…
3 things to consider when considering a kitchen island seating
But, there are a few things to think about before deciding on the design of a kitchen island.
What You Need to Know: How Much Weight Can a Kitchen Island Hold?
Kitchen island weight: We’re looking at new kitchen designs and are concerned about weight. Would granite counters in the kitchen be too much weight?
Kitchen design ideas: Bring the beach inside
One look at Wellborn Cabinets’ new Antigua door and I was instantly transported to a far away beach hideaway and my mind washed over with…
How do we make a kitchen renovation affordable?
When undergoing a kitchen renovation, there’s usually a question that pops up about how to make a kitchen renovation affordable. Here’s some help.
Kitchen Renovation Mistakes: Emergency Budget
For both homeowner and contractor, setting both a reasonable budget and an emergency budget for unseen issues like water damage from the previous kitchen, moving…
Kitchen Renovation Mistakes: Installation Confusion
Question: What are the biggest kitchen renovation mistakes to avoid? Answer: There’s no single answer to this question from our perspective. From framing issues to kitchen islands,…
Backsplash: It Costs HOW Much?
Question: What’s the average labor cost of installing 17 sq ft of kitchen tile backsplash? Each tile is on 1 square foot mesh backing. Answer:…
Quick Tip: Kitchen Remodeling
If you are replacing a stove—or an entire kitchen, including the stove—there are two important details to remember, and they are two things the inspector…
Old Kitchen Design Tips
One of the trickiest projects in old houses weaving modern kitchens into old spaces. Even as little as a half century-ago people had cast iron…
Installing Kitchen Cabinets? Read this before you get started.
Setting cabinets is a tempting DIY project because the installation principles are basic, but the reality—especially in the old-house world of crooked floors and uneven wall surfaces—is more complicated.
Taking out the kitchen
We’re demoing our kitchen this week. (…deep breath here) It’s a big job and a huge life-changer in the way I take care of my…
