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As kitchen design trends change and evolve over time, you may have noticed that your kitchen is looking and feeling out of date. Maybe the kitchen truly is the heart of your home, and you are finding that it is no longer meeting your needs as it should. Or perhaps you have plans to sell your home in the future and feel that a new, modern kitchen is going to boost the value and help you find an interested buyer. In the kitchen, it’s not only important that you have enough space to move around freely while cooking and preparing food, but also that there is enough storage space for your cooking utensils, appliances, cookware and more. With more kitchen gadgets coming onto the market that we all like to use, you might have found that storage space is getting tight. If you are on the fence about remodeling your kitchen, here are some of the main benefits of going ahead with the work.
Improve Your Home’s Value
With a custom kitchen renovation from Beattie Development you can improve the value of your home to sell in the future. Beattie Development offers a wide range of different kitchen remodeling services allowing you to get a custom kitchen that is designed to suit your needs best. They incorporate the best trends and technologies into your kitchen design to not only ensure that you get the most of it but also to make it more appealing to potential future buyers. When it comes to getting a higher return on your investment when selling your home, kitchen models have a good track record. This is because the kitchen is the heart of the home for many people, and lots of buyers are willing to pay more for a modern, new kitchen in the home.
Save Money
While a kitchen remodel might not be a cheap job, getting it done can help you save money over time. This is because as kitchens get older, they may not perform quite as efficiently as they once did. If you have had the same kitchen for several years then chances are it might have the same appliances, light fixtures, and other electrical fittings that it did when it was first put in. Since the kitchen is one of the main rooms in the home that uses a lot of power, it definitely makes a mark on your utility bills. If your appliances and other electrical items in the kitchen are quite old, then you could be paying much more for your electricity bill than you might need to. Ultimately, getting a new kitchen put in with more energy-efficient appliances and electrics will not only help you save money on an ongoing basis, but will also be more environmentally friendly.
Improve Cooking Efficiency
It’s not just the energy efficiency of your kitchen that you can improve when you go for a remodel. With a new kitchen that is designed to be used by you, you can make cooking meals a breeze. If you’re always ordering take-out because your kitchen is just not laid out great and it’s annoying to find everything you need while keeping your eye on the pans at the same time, then getting a new kitchen will make a difference. You will definitely prefer making healthy meals at home or entertaining guests with a kitchen that is purpose-built for you and has everything you need to hand. When you remodel your kitchen, you can consider everything that is annoying about using your kitchen right now and make sure that they are eliminated from the new design. For example, if you have to walk all the way over to the other side of your kitchen to get the pots and pans you need, you could have a nearby cupboard for them or a hanging pot rack right near the stove in your new design.
Improve Storage Space
Have you often found yourself wondering where you are going to put something new in your kitchen? With more and more gadgets and appliances available to make our lives easier, fitting them all into your kitchen is not always easy if your kitchen wasn’t built for them. Older kitchens were probably not designed with storage for things like air fryers, Kitchen-Aids, and electric food choppers in mind. By remodeling your kitchen, you can easily change the storage space and make sure that there is purpose-built storage for everything that you need to keep in the kitchen.
Make Cleaning Easier
Compared to an older kitchen, a new kitchen can be much easier to clean. Modern countertops and other kitchen materials are designed with hygiene in mind, and over time, older kitchen materials become worn and difficult to clean. If you have noticed that your kitchen tends to always look grubby and dirty even if you have just given it a deep cleaning, and you are always buying specialist cleaning products to try and keep it looking nice, then it might be time to rip it out and build a new one. Faded worktops, for example, don’t look great no matter how clean they are. If you are quite house proud and like your kitchen to look nice, then it might be time to stop trying to fight the worn, older kitchen materials and replace them with new, shiny ones instead.
Make it Your Own
If your kitchen has been the same since you moved into your home, then you might have struggled to make it your own. Of course, there are lots of things that you can do to make your kitchen more ‘you’, including painting the cupboard doors, vinyl wrapping the worktops and adding your own décor and wall art. However, nothing beats being able to design a kitchen that has you in mind right from the start. Not only will you have the chance to pick the exact color scheme that you want from the start, but the layout can also be customized to your needs and preferences.
Declutter
Finally, getting your kitchen remodeled is also a great chance to clear out and declutter that stuff that you might no longer need but haven’t gotten around to getting rid of. Often, kitchen cupboards and drawers can easily become somewhere that we just throw things to come back to later and then forget about. And when items are hidden out of the way in the kitchen, we might forget that we have them, but they are taking up valuable storage space. Before getting your kitchen remodeled you will probably have to rip your existing kitchen out which means going into your drawers and cupboards and emptying them completely first. While doing this, you don’t just get the chance to have a good clear out and declutter your space to make more room for the important things in the future, but you might also find things that you thought you had lost, when really they have been stuck at the back of a kitchen cupboard all along.
If your kitchen is getting on a bit, isn’t always easy to use and could be more energy-efficient, then there are lots of benefits to getting a remodel. Not only will this job make the kitchen easier to use for yourself at home, but you could also get more if you decide to sell your home in the future.
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