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25 Step Guide to Designing and Buying a KitchenA Professional Furniture Designers Guide
Step 5. Design Your Own Kitchen ?
I am a great believer in self-education, self improvement, and learning how to do things, but when it comes to kitchen design, I think for most people the cards are stacked against them. Having a kitchen, and using it for years is a good start, but only one part of the kitchen design process. It is good fun to have-a-go and explore ideas, but in the end, I think it is better to let an experienced kitchen designer have a free hand, hopefully with a good brief and your help. If you just expect your sketch ideas to be reproduced, then you have tied a designers hands behind his back. It is easy to disagree over unit sizes amounts of drawers and positions of appliances etc and have a good understanding of where you want things to go in your kitchen, but that is where a designer will normally start and then continue. It is normally the three dimensional look, and spacial awareness that catches out the unwarey with a slaved over plan. The space required for tables, islands, and getting in and out of a kitchen is always important and often under calculated. Add modern kitchen design to the mix, and you have sculptural use of colour added to the problem!! I am sorry to say that virtually none of the kitchen designs presented to me by customers could not be improved upon. I do not change other peoples kitchen layouts just to put my mark on the design ,it is the simple fact that there are many ways that I have learnt to gain space or solve design problems. There are also many alterations to units I use that can help to streamline or enhance a design. Full online kitchen design service linkEven when I have worked for professional interior designers and architects I have often ended up with a totally different design to what was desired and anticipated. I usually have the clients agreement to proceed with my design when weighing up the reasons for these changes. So the point is that anyone can produce a design with my free planning tool and I am happy for you to do so, but if you are looking to proceed with purchasing a kitchen then it essential to get professional advise at some stage if the design is important to you. Where that comes from is your decision. Free online kitchen and bathroom planning tool linkI have a website with details of my 3 kitchen design service options, and I will be happy to look at your kitchen layout to tell you whether it can be improved upon. Alternatively if you just want to see your kitchen design with photorealistic visuals, plans and elevations then that is fine, I am not pushing you to do anything other than get a second opinion. Link to my design service website image portfolio
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