Jun 5, 2010
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Kitchen Remodeling and Why It’s Very Important

 

There are five ways to improve the quality of your home if you are going to put the property up for sale. They are remodeling your kitchen, redoing your bathroom(s), increasing your storage and closet space, adding a fireplace, and adding a deck or patio. Of them all, kitchen remodeling is the first, the most important, and by far the most challenging project you could do in the home.

It does not even have to be just when you are planning to put your home up for sale before you remodel your kitchen. Merely living there, you will suddenly realize that the kitchen is the one space where the most things are going on in the home. In the kitchen you cook and eat, in the kitchen you keep your food items in storage, as well as your cooking utensils and equipments, and the kitchen is where you do some basic waste disposal. No, I don’t mean toileting; I mean the trash.

Your kitchen is certainly decked out with a few specialized food preparation areas; and if it isn’t, you know you are in need of at least one. Some people do their laundry in the kitchen, and others use the space as a traffic hub, mudroom, message station, mini-office, secondary media center, and for entertaining.

So, yes, I agree that because of the importance of the kitchen you should spend good money to fix it up to your tastes. But a word of caution – don’t spend too much money on remodeling your kitchen, especially if and when you just can’t afford to. Of course you can borrow money for remodeling, but don’t take more than you can afford to repay!

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Jun 5, 2010
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How to Install Cabinet Door Pulls

 

Once you finish a cabinet remodel you still need to install the new cabinet pulls. There are a few simple tricks to use to ensure the job goes quickly, smoothly and will look great. So here’s a quick guide on how to install cabinet door pulls.

The first thing you’ll need to do is figure out just where you want to put up the new door pulls. Use a little bit of paste to tack the first cabinet pull up onto the cabinet door. You can adjust the pull up, down, left or right until it looks just right.

Now go to the furthest cabinet and stick up another knob in the same general location. Adjust it until it’s in line with the first handle you stuck into place.

Grab a chalk line and a buddy.

Snap the chalk line across the row of cabinets above and below the two knobs you stuck up with the paste. This gives you a reference point for the height of the door pulls. You won’t have to worry about them sitting uneven on the door fronts.

Now you can just measure how deep the door pull is from the edge of the cabinet and you have the measurements you need to install all of the cabinet door pulls.

Now you’ll want to construct a quick template so that all the pulls go up in the same location.

Grab a piece of wood and mark off the offset you just measured.

Drill holes through the wood that line up with the cabinet door pull and attach bolts.

Now you can take the template and hold it up to cabinet door. Stick a pencil through the door and mark the front of the cabinet.

Next use a cordless drill to put holes in all the cabinet doors at the same time. This will save you time from having to switch out between screwdriver and drill after each cabinet.

Once you drilled out all the pilot holes grab one of the bolts from the cabinet and use it as a test fit. Increase the size of your drill bits until you reach the size of the bolt.

Go back and enlarge all the holes to the same size.

Now you can put down the drill and switch to the screwdriver for good.

Slide each bolt through the back of the cabinet doors. Use the screwdriver to tighten the cabinet pulls to the door facing. You don’t want to crank down too hard on the screws you’ll risk stripping the screws and warping the door pulls.

All that’s left to do is clean up all the saw dust from the drilling. Just vacuum it all up and you’re finished!

Hopefully this guide on how to install cabinet door pulls will make your remodeling job a little easier. These are but a few tips to make the job go smoothly. Just snap a few chalk lines make a template and you’ll have new cabinet pulls up in a few short hours.

Author Jennifer Akre is an owner of a wide variety of online specialty shops including that offer both items and information on how you can easily furnish and decorate your space. Whether it is knobs for your bathroom or cabinet hardware for your kitchen there are many tips you can use to make those spots both functional and beautiful. Click today and indulge your senses.

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May 30, 2010
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Estimating Kitchen Remodel

 

When it comes to making changes to the way your kitchen looks estimating kitchen remodel costs is usually the first step. In coming up with an estimate you need to identify the items that you need to change and the type of changes that you are going to effect. The types of changes you put into place will be related to many things.

Are you going to go for a new kitchen layout or maintain the existing one? The kind of materials that you are going to use will have an impact on the overall cost. Most kitchens mainly comprise of units made out of chip board. Chip board is not very durable unless it comes coated with some other water resistant material.  LKN Cabinets (www.LKNcabinets.com) prides itself in numerous plywood constructed options at affordable pricing. Compare the costs of the different materials for your cabinet door and take durability into consideration. Another thing that will determine how much you are going to spend is who going to carry out the remodeling.

 You could either opt to do it yourself or get a contractor to do the job. There are contractors who will be happy to come to your house and help you with estimating kitchen remodel costs for FREE like LKN Cabinets call or email us today!

They will come and look at the scope of work involved and come up with a rough figure of how much your intended repairs will cost. You must understand that remodeling the kitchen yourself will only be cheaper if you know how to do it. Also if you have all the necessary equipment needed to finish the project and if you have lots of free time available.

It is really of no benefit trying to do it yourself if you risk doing a shoddy job that won’t look nice at all. Estimating kitchen remodel costs will be more accurate if you make use of a professional. Remember to explore all your options first.

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