5 Things You Should Never Forget When Renovating a Kitchen, According to Pros

With peak hosting season just around the corner, many are looking to change up their spaces. And while renovating can be extremely fun, it’s also hard work—especially for kitchen spaces. Kitchens can take up a lot of your time—not to mention the tricky appliance installations—so you have to be prepared for any bumps along the way.

Luckily, Hettich, a renowned German-engineered functional hardware brand has come up with innovative solutions that can help you avoid costly mistakes and ensure your dream kitchen functions flawlessly and efficiently.

Let’s jump right in so you can have the fantasy kitchen you’ve always wanted.

Take Inventory

The first tip from Hettich when redoing your kitchen is to take inventory of everything you have. It’s so easy for items to get lost in the shuffle, so it’s really important to know where all your appliances and favorite kitchen items are.

If you plan where you will store specific items like cookware, appliances, and pantry goods, you won’t have to worry about it later on. You never want to be searching for your favorite tea cup or pasta drainer for weeks on end after a renovation.

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Durability Counts

The second tip for your kitchen renovation is to know that quality matters. If you opt for soft-close drawers, slides and hinges in your new kitchen like those linked from Hettich, you will extend the life of your cabinets.

While you may be thinking you want the cheapest of options, it’s better and also less expensive in the long run to have cabinets and appliances that have a lasting power.

Maximize Blind Corners

Another really helpful tip when undergoing a huge kitchen transformation is to maximize blind corners! Gone are the days of trying to hide awkward corners or pretending that they don’t exist.

Get creative and use clever design elements for those difficult and tricky spaces. You can do this by replacing blind corners with a lazy susan, to create more storage and a sleek, modern look. You can also play with diagonal or curbed cabinets.

Optimize Spice Storage

It’s organization time! We all know organizing your spices can be tricky, especially if you adore spices like me and if your kitchen is very small and tight with not a lot of storage space.

Luckily, there are options for you, like Hettich’s ComfortSpin. The best part? This ComfortSpin product is dishwasher safe and carries up to eight kilograms! That’s a lot of spices.

Illuminate Drawers

Say goodbye to dark and cluttered drawers and hello to bright and clean drawers.Heittech recommends adding lighting to your drawers, like their AvanTech You Illumination, to make these usually cluttered spaces easier to navigate.

Adding in lighting is an perfect choice for the junk drawers where you have everything from scissors to grocery bags to random utensils you only use on holidays.