Home Interior – Home Remodeling

While you are designing and fitting a new kitchen, there are many challenges to overcome. Corners pose the most problems. If you are not careful while fitting corners and doors, they can collide with handles and doors of appliances. Allow approximately an extra 50 mm in the corners. This provides a nicely functioning kitchen and is not noticeable. Remember not to place your drawers in the corners. Because a magic corner requires a specific amount of room to open in a certain way, take care while installing them in a corner cabinet to avoid the possibility of colliding with handles.

Also think about the plumbing, waste pipes running along walls will make an appliance like a washing machine stand out too far and when it come to integrated appliances they only have about 20mm gap at the back so if you have a 40 mm waste pipe running behind an integrated dishwasher the dishwasher just wont go back far enough, something like this is massive problem if you discover it right at the end of the job, which is when you normally install the appliances. You could have to do some major alterations… which will be timely and expensive; you are far better off spending a few extra hours designing and planning the kitchen at the beginning. Time very well spent.

Make sure that the hob is fairly close to the sink, one of the most common things you do in a kitchen is take something from the sink to the hob and it’s normally heavy and hot so you do not want to be walking too far to empty and fill saucepans. It best if they are either on the some run or adjacent to each other, if you have to move the heavy and hot saucepans across any gap in the worktops there is a danger of hitting someone or maybe even a child and if you have a pan full of boiling water it could be extremely dangerous. This is normally the case in a galley kitchen sometimes it cannot be helped but best avoided if possible.

Remember to install the dishwasher under the draining board next to the sink along with the other plumbing. You might install the washing machine on the opposite side of the sink to allow for waste connect, water feeds and draining from the base unit of the sink along with the other plumbing. Remembering the waste pipe circumstances above, while installing the dishwasher next to the washer and then extend the grey waste pipe. Then you can run it behind the appliances that are next to the sink. In order not to reduce any problems while facing a water leak or electrical situation, do not install water or electrical supplies behind any appliances. This can pose problems of not having easy access to pipes or electrical outlets. You do not want to have to try to move water and clothes filled washer if you have any problems with water leaks or electrical trouble. You need to be able to switch things off quickly when you have a water leak or electrical problems.

Although a built under oven looks better in a smaller kitchen, there are double ovens designed to fit under the worktop and cooking ranges that provide alternative cooking options when you have the space. A built in double oven is easier on the back and allows you the ability to see into it better than a built under oven. When you want to save worktop space and make the microwave fit in better without a trail of cords to the plug socket, you can fit a microwave oven into a wall unit neatly. This looks much nicer rather than having a microwave sitting around taking up space.

Many people want a breakfast bar in their kitchen… It is hard to design a breakfast bar into many kitchens…but don’t be put off easily with a bit of clever planning it’s often possible get one in. Remember you only need about 300 to 400mm overhang, so a 665 double post formed worktop on a wall 1000 standing on floor with 4 adjustable legs fitted, plus some showback (Carcase material) fitted to the back will do the trick. You only normally fully use the front of a base unit so it’s not a waste of cupboard space.

Rather than fitting the base units and then struggling with placing the wall units over the base units, like many individual do, you should begin by fitting the kitchen with wall units, which is much easier and faster. You will need to position these first to get the height of the top of the units and then just level from the top of tall units when you have tall housing. However, remember to allow for the flooring when you have 12mm flooring going down and 150mm plinth, jack the units up 150 (plinth) + 12 (Flooring) 5mm (gap to make fitting the plinths easy) therefore a total of 167mm from the existing level to the underside of the units. Many individuals will do the flooring after fitting the kitchen. Since you will not need to cut the plinths down to place them, you will save a lot of installation work at the end of your job.

When fitting the wall units first make sure you spend the time to get the positioning correct, if you have a corner wall unit (L shaped or splay) fit this first and work out from the corner, but don’t forget if you are going to fit fillers in the base units to make the corners work you will need to allow for these when you fit the wall units. The secret is to mark on the wall where the base units are going but don’t fit them yet and use these marks to position the wall units. If you are fitting wall lights run the cables down the backs of the wall units at this stage, this will also save a lot of work later trying to fiddle cables behind wall units leaning over the base units.

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