"How to Design your Dream Kitchen:
The Process"

Inside this Article
•        1. Planning the Kitchen
•        2. Your Kitchen Needs (over view)
•        3. Totally New Against Remodeled Kitchen / Kitchen Size & Shaped
•        4. Planning the Kitchen Budget
•        5. Getting Professional Designer
•        6. Type of Kitchen Shape
•        7. Dream into Action

Planning Your Kitchen
Before you start the project, go through some magazines and websites to find something suitable or at least a base to start with. Make a list of things that you like or dislike things that worked and didn’t work and appliances and accessories you long to have.

Your Kitchen Needs
You might want to visit some appliances stores to get a closer look of the new appliances, bring those brochures back go through carefully. The list of basic appliances and fittings that you’ll need– \
1. Hob – Type to pay some attention, gas or electric, glass or stainless steel, type of utensil used, cooking style.
2. Hood - Chimney or slim line
3. Fridge - Capacity of fridge
4. Sink. – Stainless steel, silicon, moulded, ceramic, porcelain.
        If budget allow

1.        Oven – but do you bake?
2.        Dishwasher –
3.        Larder unit – food organizer h

a.) Totally new against Remodeled Kitchen 
b.) Kitchen Size and Shaped
        You have now known your appliances and accessories budget. The critically decision is next, Do you really want a new look or have it remodeled?  Things can get out of hand if you’re not careful here.
Many things that might be a hidden cost.
1.        Have you ever imagine your new kitchen against the old wall tiles?
2.        The shape of kitchen cannot be altered much if you decide not to change the floor tiles.
3.        Giving a face lift like changing the door, will not help you to your dream kitchen. It will be worst if you plan to modify and keep part of kitchen.
4.        Many times during this process endless problem will arise, that might be frustrating.
5.        If you are planning to resize your kitchen, Remodeling will not work well.
6.        If you are planning to change that shaped, Remodeling will not work either.
Uniquely, there are limited shaped to a typical HDB. You might want to leave this to a professional designer. The working triangle, the storage and function. (Next issue of  Understanding your kitchen)

Planning the Kitchen Budget
        Now you have a clearer picture, the kitchen that you long to have. Work out your budget carefully with the thing below involving a totally new kitchen. That involves
1.        Masonry work
2.        Carpentry work
3.        Plumbing work
4.        Electrical work
5.        Appliances and accessories

Getting Professional Designer
        With this in-line you might want to get professional help to run you through the whole project. With the homework you have done, you can speak to maybe 3 company (not more than that unless you really can’t find one comfortable to work with), with your own instinct than work with the designer you feel most comfortable with. From here share your findings; ask for his/her opinion. Usually a good designer or experience will have a very pleasant and fruitful improvement to your kitchen. The designer will help you organize – The working triangle – the 3 elements, from the fridge to the sink and the sink to the hob, a good space planner will have this organized neatly with a good traffic flow. From here the shaped of your kitchen will be formed. Most common the L-shaped Kitchen.

Type of Kitchen Shape
L – Shaped Kitchen. The most common and user friendly
U – Shaped Kitchen. Usually found in bigger houses
Corridor Kitchen. Usually found in Condo Kitchen
Dream into Action
Once the Layout is ready. Study carefully, you might want to look carefully into this area.
1.        The overall space planning
2.        The counter space between the hob and the sink
3.        The storage space for you cutlery, utensils, food organizer
4.        The type of materials and colour Greenlam
5.        The type of worktop CoTop
6.        Overview of the entire project
Last but not least the execution dates of the project. Ask for a schedule of work, remember if you are living in the house, you might want to get out of it for the initial date during demolition to the masonry work. My usual advise, try to find an alternative place to stay, it’s really uncomfortable. A short holiday might solve the problem.