Designing a kitchen can be extremely complicated due to the different elements that are required to create such a space, from the floorplan and ambient lighting, to the selection of appliances and other physical elements. However, if you were calling my advice line for interior design services, I would help you create a beautiful and functional space, fit for your home.
Similarly, while finding a designer via a friend or colleague is preferable, kitchen designers offer a broker service by guiding you through showrooms and suppliers – and by providing cost breakdown estimates of the project.
Caesarstone
Caesarstone are company that manufacturers Quartz work surfaces and have a fantastic colour selection available to homes. All of there products are extremely long lasting, but remain low maintenance products.. Additionally they do not require any harsh chemicals to be cleaned with, and are all GREENGUARD certificated.
Caesarstone is scratch, chip and stain-resistant due to its crushed quartz and polymer resin build. It is also super heat-resistant; none of those bacteria will stick around because this surface can get pretty hot. This product is ideal for the busy family. Simple soap and water keep Caesarstone on point!
A homeowner can get surgically accurate patterns, from petrified-wood veining and small speckling to polished and honed finishes, and and find the quartz counter that best suites their style and needs. The material is much cheaper than granite, yet homeowners still gain many of its advantages. It is always best to visit a specialist at a nearby showroom to find out which material can best serve the needs of one’s kitchen.
Home Hardware
Within Home Hardware, you get the best of both worlds: local logic mixed with independent owner/operator entrepreneurial spirit all the while maintaining the organisation’s core purpose and mission-driven status in an increasingly homogenous retail environment.
With a professional kitchen designer, you can turn your space into an aesthetic yet revitalising environment. An experienced kitchen designer’s knowledge of construction can help to have architecturally accurate discussions with contractors whom they can work with directly in order to facilitate communication, ensure quality, coordinate with building departments, etc. A designer can also ensure an unbroken flow of information, enhance communication syntax, and expedite decision-making processes.
Design kitchens are a great way to flex your creative muscle and display your style, ties with the rest of your spaces. When designing one, it’s important the aesthetic links with the rest of your home, matching the hardware is crucial for the design. Traditional aesthetics create a match made in heaven with ornamental detail and aged bronze finishes, blending harmoniously in such a space.
Online Backsplash Designer
If you are getting something custom, you do want to make sure that it is built to your unique specifications. Whether it’s custom cabinets in your kitchen or a crown moulding in your living room, you’ll want to make sure that it fits with complementary items, like the colour and layout of the rest of your kitchen cabinets or the trim of your living room walls. A designer can help you make your space work, with an effective floorplan, comfortable – in an ergonomic sense – built-ins, and tasteful style; and can also coordinate with contractors throughout construction, to ensure the renovation is done on time and within budget.
What an awesome concept! Backsplash Visualizer is an online program that enables the home owner, designer and contractor to effortlessly personalise on a kitchen or bathroom back-splash. It is FREE to use and comes with endless upgrade options to include colour, size and patterns for you to be able to mix and match desired variations to your tastes. You can even use your cabinets and counter tops to see how your backsplash will match, How cool is that??
Your junior staff, in particular, will be dazzled by how fast and easy it is to generate an accurate quote in literally a matter of seconds, leaving more time for them to ‘get in front of’ a prospective client and close the deal before a competitor could get their foot in the door.
IKEA
IKEA is the home furnishings retailer that specialises in custom-designed furniture to decorate and furnish apartments of different sizes in different environments, as well as accessories and appliances to complement the furniture they sell. Further, kitchen utensils with both aesthetic and pragmatic value – sinks, faucets, dishwashers and counter tops among others – are also part of their offerings, their range providing products with styles and finishes to suit every taste.
The online kitchen planner from IKEA offers not only creative tools, it is aimed at making your shopping experience as smooth as possible by offering extensive product information so you can compare features and prices before buying – avoiding any nasty surprises because they forgot to quote for labour costs. No longer do you have to compromise on your kitchen to satisfy your budget! IKEA is no longer selling furniture alone, but an experience.
IKEA’s online kitchen planner allows you to see the space before it’s actually installed – both a time- and money-saver in the long run. The ability to make iterations to the design, email it to yourself, save a graphic of it for future review, save work in it as you go, and email it to other users makes it a truly interactive measurement tool.