Kitchen Measuring Tips to Know Before You Go
Why you don't have to splurge on a kitchen designer!
You will hear that kitchen designers are essential to your kitchen planning. Every inch makes a difference in the comfort of your new kitchen and they'll ensure maximum kitchen space utility. And that is all true, but in today's day computer software has pretty much made their job obsolete. Kitchen design software has come a long way and most designers use the same software that we offer for FREE.
The only time one may need a designer is for personal decor taste and trends, which again is not essential. Most designers have 2 or 3 style options that they know work, and they offer them to everyone they meet, so you don't get anything unique and exclusive, but a kitchen that looks identical to their previous clients's. With an Abenari Kitchen Design, we will work with you and give you many options to choose from, so that you will have a kitchen that's right for you; we will map out a plan that will be both versatile and simple. Using 3D software, you will see your kitchen exactly the way it'll look when it's done.
In ordering pre-assembled cabinets, you not only maximize your kitchen space but get a perfectly fitted kitchen. By foregoing a designer, you can spend the extra cash kitchen upgrades. It's the little upgrades that make all the difference. Adding posts, and pillars, or molding and trim, even upgrading your counter-top to granite or quartz, will make any price-conscious kitchen purchase dazzle!
How to Measure a Kitchen
1. Ensure accuracy. You’ll need a tape measure, straight edge, and graph paper.
2. Measure clockwise. Record the overall length of each wall, working to your right around the room. Label walls, windows, and doors with numbers.
3. Get the width and height. Take horizontal measurements of walls at 36-inch height. Record vertical measurements floor to windowsill, from windowsill to top of window, from top of window to ceiling, then from floor to ceiling.
4. Find your center. Indicate the centerline of all permanent features in measurements including wall oven, range, sinks, windows, doors, closets, ducts, and outlets.
5. Include the trim. When measuring doors and windows, the casing is considered part of the door or window. Measure from one side to the other of the door or window trim, then measure from the outside of the trim to the middle of the window or door.