Common Mistakes Homeowners Make During Their Kitchen Remodels

Kitchen remodeling is one of the most popular projects for any homeowner to take on. Remodeling your kitchen can immediately raise your home's resale value while also making your entire home more comfortable, attractive, and functional, so it's a great home improvement project. However, there are plenty of things that could go wrong during a kitchen remodel, and it's very important that you look out for some of the common pitfalls that make these projects less than totally satisfactory.

There are a few mistakes that homeowners commonly make when they're remodeling their kitchens. The best to make sure that you don't make them if plan your project carefully, which is something that Cater Construction can help you do. Our professional Spokane remodeling contractors have compiled a list of a few of the most common mistakes homeowners make with their kitchens and the best ways to avoid them:

Designing a Bad Layout

When you're planning the layout of your new kitchen, there are three parts that you'll want to make sure you have quick and easy access to at all times:

• Your refrigerator
• Your oven and stove-top
• Your sink

These parts of your kitchen need to be close to each other, but you also need to ensure that no part of any of them blocks access to another. They're the most frequently used parts of your Spokane kitchen, and your kitchen will lose much of its functionality when they're not accessible. During the design stage of your remodeling project, a lack of convenient access to these parts of the kitchen might not jump out at you, but when you're working in the kitchen regularly, you'll feel much differently.

Not Giving Yourself Enough Storage Space

Many homeowners, and even many remodeling contractors, focus much of their attention on the aesthetic aspects of a kitchen remodel, like the flooring, counters, and appliances. These aspects of the project are certainly important, but what's more important to a kitchen's design are the elements that you can't see.

Having enough counter space is one of the most important parts of a kitchen's design, but if that counter space will need to house some of your appliances that could otherwise be stored away, it will be wasted. Take an inventory of smaller appliances, pots and pans, and other kitchen items, and make sure that your new kitchen design leaves you plenty of space for these things.

Our remodeling contractors can work with you to find creative kitchen design solutions that will help you maximize the space you have available in your Spokane home's kitchen.

Designing a Kitchen That's Too Trendy

There's no doubt that you want your Spokane home's kitchen to be attractive, and that should be one of your goals when you're planning your remodel design. However, it's important to make sure that you're not too focused on current trends when you're designing these aspects of your kitchen.

Most design trends are very timely and short-lived. Even if the trends stay up-to-date for five years, remodeling your kitchen twice in a decade is probably not reasonable. So while it's not a bad idea to make your kitchen look great, our remodeling contractors recommend that you focus mainly on making sure that it's functional.