Buying a new kitchen is an expensive process, so if you're on a tight budge the last thing you want to do is pay a professional kitchen designer to draw up your plans. The good news is there's one simple way to get a free kitchen design that is tailored to suit your specific needs - do it yourself.
If you're not particularly savvy when it comes to home improvement, the prospect of drawing up your own kitchen design can be quite daunting. However, there is plenty of free help you can seek out, starting with the following useful bits of advice.
Measure your kitchen. Before you do anything else, measure the dimensions of your kitchen so you know exactly how much space you have to work with. This is incredibly useful when it comes to picking out furniture and appliances as you can start to imagine where the different things will fit. A lot of people estimate with their designs and it comes back to bite them at a later stage. Don't be one of these people.
Think logically. What things from your existing kitchen are you planning to keep? What are you going to throw away? What will need replacing? What can be refurbished and re-used? All of these questions can give you a headache so make lists of what you're throwing away and what you need to buy. That way you're always in control and won't end up with two of anything. When deciding what new furniture and appliances to invest in start by listing what you need and then move on to what you want. Fitting in the necessities should always be your priority.
Use free kitchen design software. There are so many companies on so many different websites that offer kitchen design software for nothing that you'd be mad not take advantage. Play around designing the layout of your new kitchen and try different things to see what works. You might find out that something you hadn't even thought of might work incredibly well.
Find the bargains. Instead of buying a standard fitted kitchen, try shopping around for the different parts yourself to get the best deals. You can find some real bargains online and put together a beautiful kitchen for a fraction of the showroom cost. However, be careful that your kitchen design jigsaw doesn't look mismatched and disjointed.
By:Thomas Baugh
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