Budget

Designing your kitchen is an epic event.  In most cases, you won’t have to do it again for a very long time.  This is something you should keep in mind when creating your budget.

The major materials like doors, cabinetry, and flooring, are a big part of your budget.  If you’re paying someone to help with the labor involved in your kitchen project, factor that into your budget as well.  Don’t forget to calculate other expenses including equipment, supplies and space-saving accessories.  While it’s easy to remember to count the cost for cabinets, you might overlook the cost of custom knobs or handles.

United Wholesale’s design team understands the details involved in creating a budget and how to make your dream kitchen a reality.

As you go through the budget process, keep the following in mind:

Affordability

Quality products at affordable prices can be found at United Wholesale Supply.  Good planning is necessary if you want to create a dream kitchen and make it an efficient work space.  You don’t have to go broke looking for the items to make your kitchen design complete.  You can accomplish this with creative compartments and ingenious pull-out mechanisms.

Cost Effective

Smart kitchens contain design elements that allow you to multi-task.  Islands are a good way to do this effectively.  When an island is included in your kitchen’s design, you can store pots and pans and conceal small appliances.  Islands even serve as a replacement for the kitchen table.  This particular feature in your kitchen will prove to be convenient and cost effective.

Worth the Effort

There is one final consideration that relates to the expense and cost effectiveness of your kitchen design.  Will the functionality and efficiency of the design make it worth the effort?  If your kitchen design won’t allow you to use the room more effectively, it won’t be worth it no, matter what the cost.  That is why the efficiency and planning of your design should be based on the work triangle.

The National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) defines what a “work triangle” in your kitchen is.  They describe it as an imaginary straight line drawn from the center of the sink, to the center of the cooktop.  The line then extends from the cooktop to the center of the refrigerator, and then back to the sink.  The

primary goal of the work triangle is to make things in the kitchen run efficiently.  This means making sure all major work stations are situated near the cook.  At the same time, nothing should be so close that the kitchen is too cramped to work in.  When you fully understand the concept of the work triangle, you can design the type of kitchen you’ve always wanted.  Every minute you spend in your new kitchen will remind you it was worth the effort.