Kitchen Remodel

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Do you want a Tuscan look? You should go and look at both types in person. Go to some kitchen stores and HD and Lowes and decide what type of kitchen you want. Light wood, dark wood, are you changing the layout of your kitchen? Maybe make a rough sketch of the layout you would like. First decide what look you're going for. Then what budget are you working with? Do you need new appliances? Can you reuse your old cabinets and recace them or are they crap?

Get a binder and fill it with paper and tabs. Counter, cabinets, floor, appliances, wall color, ect. Make notes of what you want and don't want. Where you saw what you want and the price. The more work you do yourself, the less you have to pay the designer and more you have for actual product.

The designer is a flat rate of $100/hr. (and I don't think the clock starts ticking until she comes out). What I'll end up with is a plan that I can take to a contractor, cabinet shop, appliance store etc. I absolutely plan to change the current design and basically gut everything. The only decent appliance I have right now is a Thermador double oven (and even that's 6-7 years old). Everything else will get replaced and I'm FINALLY going to move from an electric range to gas (hooray!!!).

My current kitchen is U shaped. If you open the refrigerator, nobody can get behind you because the counter is right behind your ass. It's gotta be reconfigured.

I'm leaning towards a light to medium wood but then again, of all the areas in my house, my kitchen gets the most day light so I could potentially go dark on the cabinetry but...I don't think so. I don't know! The possibilities are endless.

I am compiling pics I like but they vary widely in cabinet colors and such. The only common denominator that I've found is warm, warm, warm. I like warm, natural colors.