How To Avoid Getting Into A Financial Setback During Your Kitchen Renovation Project

By Michael Bryksa

Your first dream was to buy and live in your own house. You worked hard and achieved that dream. Several years later, you found a new dream, and that is to renovate your dream house andtime has taken its tollfix what needs to be fixed. Home renovation is something a lot of us encounter at some point during the course of our lives.

The kitchen is easily the most renovated part of any home. It is the light of the house because, as Raymond Carver put it, eating is healing. Most people would rather sleep in a cramped bedroom than prepare food and dine in a mediocre kitchen.

But there are a lot of ways to botch your kitchen renovation plan. For example,

You hired the wrong contractor for the project

You bought appliances without considering their functional uses

You ignored other practical issues (eg. storage)

The goal of this write up is to prevent YOU the homeowner from making any huge financial mistakes during your kitchen renovation project. Let’s start with the most common misstep homeowners make: hiring the wrong contractor.

1.Getting the wrong contractor

Hiring the wrong person can really mess up your kitchen renovation project. It’s like being mugged by a bunch of goons and calling to a policeman for help, only to find out he was with them all along and proceeded to rob you of your hard-earned money.

I suggest you really take your time deciding who to hire to take over your kitchen renovation project. It could take weeks or even months, but don’t worry about it. Taking a long time to find someone who knows what he’s doing is far better than hiring someone incompetent who couldn’t tell the difference between a screw and a screwdriver.

2.Not taking care of the details

Not everyone is an interior designer. You have this vague idea of what you want your dream kitchen to be, but you don’t want to get down and draw the gritty details of it. But here is the thing: you need to, you must. It’s your kitchen. This is your project. An interior designer is only going to help you get so far.

Unless you want to risk spending money on the project and end up with a design that’s completely different from what you had in mind, I suggest you take charge when it comes to designing the details of your renovated kitchen.

For everything else, such as…

Buying appliances with features you want

Placing an order for cabinets and other hardware needs

Buying the light fixtures

…you could assign someone to take care of these. You on the other hand needs to focus on the design of your renovated kitchen.

The last thing you want is for your hard-earned cash to go down the drain and you’re still left with a half-finished renovated kitchen. Follow these two pointers to prevent that from ever happening. Take your time and make sure youre doing things right.

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