Back to basics: how to measure a kitchen
Every once in a while it hits me that I'm straying too far from my niche. I am after all, a kitchen and bath designer. AS much as I enjoy my regular forays far and wide; the name of this blog after all is Kitchen and Residential Design.
I get requested questions constantly about the way to start a renovation mission. Everybody it appears, has an opinion about what they ought to appear to be when they're carried out, however few people realize wherein to start.
How do you get from something that looks like this,
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| photo via Luxurbist |
to some thing that looks as if this?
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| photo via Medallion Cabinetry |
Well, the entirety starts with a terrific set of measurements.
Measuring a kitchen is a bit more complicated that identifying the square feet of a room or maybe the length of the partitions. Because nearly the whole lot that goes right into a kitchen is built in, accurate measurements are important, and recognize how to degree things like home windows, doors and plumbing stacks may be very critical.
While any professional you meet with with degree your room him or herself, there may be nothing stopping you from measuring the entirety now so you can begin making plans even before you call in professionals.
AK Renovations is an Atlanta design and build firm that was started in 1995 by Ed Choflin and Ed's somebody I've come to know through Twitter. Ed and the entire team at AK Renovations are consummate professionals and highly skilled tradespeople. They do great work in Atlanta and they put together a terrific website. It's chock full of great information and advice and about a week ago, they published one of the best How To Measure Your own Kitchen Guides I've ever seen.
You can download AK Renovations' .pdfs here and I encourage you to go to the site for the download if you're going to attempt this on your own. The resolution as .pdfs is far better than the reduced version of them here.
AK Renovations' guide will take you through the entire process is a scientific and painless way. In less than an hour you may recognise precisely how massive your kitchen is and you may understand precisely wherein the windows and other obstacles are.
See? Going back to basics isn't so hard. Many, many thanks to the gang at AK Renovations .