Remodeling A Kitchen Can Give Your Home A Totally New Style

Kitchen remodeling is a great way to add some style to your house and also adding a lot of value at the same time

. By remodeling your kitchen you can recoup up to 90% of the cost of the renovations, and if you are handy and do the work yourself, maybe even a little more.

It seems that with all the new floor coverings, cabinet choices and counter top varieties out there these days; it is very easy to set your kitchen apart from everyone else's. If you update your kitchen now, and you plan to sell it anytime down the road then you most definitely will get your money out of the remodel you have done to the kitchen. It is a well known fact that men will look at a garage when purchasing a house and women will almost always look to see if the kitchen meets their approval.

Be sure to design your new kitchen to be not only efficient but appealing to the eye as well. Sitting down with a company that is experienced in remodeling kitchens should be your first step in starting your project. Replacing laminate countertops with new granite, concrete, or slate countertop will add a huge part of the style to your new kitchen. Make sure that you choose colors that are very neutral, if you go to bold you may turn off some buyers.

Flooring will also be something that you need to consider. The old days of vinyl flooring are finally gone and new more resilient marble, tile or stone is what is going to give your kitchen that wow factor and a more modern look. You may also choose to do a more upscale floor covering like a hardwood or a laminate that will give you the look of wood but holds up to wear and tear a little better.

Adding new lighting that not only aids in the brightness of your new kitchen to make it easier to work in, but it can also highlight all of the new amenities you have just added. Track lighting, recessed lighting and additional under cabinet lighting are very popular these days.

When choosing new kitchen cabinets, you will have to decide what type of wood you want, how many cabinets you want, how big each cabinet will be, and of course new hardware for the front of those cabinets. Putting it all together to make sure it works in your space prior to ordering would be a wise decision.

When the many choices of flooring, countertops, lighting and cabinets is done then you will also have to pick out new matching appliances. Stainless steel seems to be very popular at the current time, but whatever you decide to go with, just make sure that everything matches. You do not want a white stove and a black refrigerator. The whole balance of the newly remodeled kitchen will be thrown off.

While kitchen remodeling is one of the most popular home renovations done by homeowners, it is also one of the smartest to do because of the amount of equity that can be added to the home in addition to the amount of style that a new kitchen adds to a home.

by: Krystal Miller

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