Prepare your finances well in advance to help give you a clear idea of the available budget for your kitchen cabinet and equipment makeover, to find out more about your options in preparing the budget for your new kitchen take a look at Home Improvement Financing Options for Kitchen Cabinets and Equipment How you can change the layout, with a view to remodeling your kitchen will depend on where the connections are placed. It is much cheaper to do a total kitchen revamp if you don't have to change the place of water pipes and/or electrical connections. The three main places in your kitchen are:-
your kitchen SINK,
your COOKER or stove,
and your REFRIGERATOR.
These three important areas will for a working triangle within your or any kitchen and your kitchen design idea should concentrate on providing easy movement between the three and plenty of work surfaces. You will need to plan for plenty of work surfaces between your cooker and sink to be able to easily wash, prepare and cook the family dinner. AND... everyone will need CLEAR ACCESS to the refrigerator - without going past and knocking into the busy chef of the family. How big is your kitchen?, can you expand it... do you have an adjoining utility room or pantry. Either one of these could be incorporated into your kitchen to increase size or may be more useful to you if they remain seperate and give you valuable storage space for machines and tins outside of the kitchen area. As you begin to design the layout of your kitchen... try not to overpack it with storage units, you will just end up with a claustraphobic feeling, rather then the place where you will enjoy working and everyone wants to be. Leave some breathing space by using a natural toned reflective tile. Aim for a balance with plenty of good kitchen cabinet and equipment while still retaining some free wall space. One trick is to have units that stand off the floor. Being able to see wall to wall in a small kitchen can give the impression of more size and also make it easier to clean the floor. Although many prefer standing units to the floor and overhead units to the ceiling.