How do you prepare your home and family for the renovation process? We have the 5 steps you should take before your home renovation starts.

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2. The best way to be ready for your kitchen
installation or any renovation is to be
prepared beforehand. Your kitchen designer
and construction team will help you achieve
the best kitchen renovation experience
possible. Time spent up front preparing for
your kitchen project pays off throughout the
construction phase. The following are the
prep steps that Kitchen Designs recommends
to our customers.

3. If you want "before" photos of your kitchen or
bath, this is a good time to take them.
First of all,

4. The first thing to do is physically prepare the space.
Empty your cabinetry completely, and empty
everything you can out of the room. Box, tape and
label anything you won’t be using. If there’s an object
in the room that is too heavy for you to move, we will
take care of that for you when we come to prepare
for the demolition.
1) Prepare and empty
your kitchen.

5. If possible, clear spaces where heavy furniture
will be moved to. For example, if you'd like
Kitchen Designs to move your kitchen table to
another room, be sure the path is clear to that
room.

6. The next thing to do is to take down pictures, mirrors
and anything on the OTHER side of the wall if the
kitchen is adjoining other rooms.
2) Remove pictures, art,
and mirrors from adjoining
rooms.

7. Make sure you remove everything from the opposite
side. Pictures can rattle and bounce off during
demolition.

8. We assist our clients in setting up a temporary kitchen.
It is important to put down a piece of masonite or
plywood to protect the floors and carpets underneath
your temporary kitchen. You don’t want carpets and
floors damaged from spills or a heavy refrigerator
sitting on them for 6 weeks or so.
3) Set up a temporary
kitchen.

9. After we relocate your fridge for you, the following
may come in handy in your temporary kitchen:
paper plates
disposable cups
silverware
a panini maker
an outdoor grill
toaster oven
coffee maker

10. As glamorous as eating out every night may seem, it will
get old fast. We highly recommend (particularly if you’re
a good cook and you normally cook at home) preparing
meals ahead of time and stocking your freezer with a few
of your favorites that can be simply defrosted and heated
up. Eating healthy will help you keep your sanity while
waiting for your new dream kitchen.

11. To help prevent dust from going throughout the rest of
the house, Kitchen Designs will close off the kitchen area
with plastic by taping all the doorways shut. If you’re
going to need to be going in and out of doorways, you
can purchase plastic door shields with zippers at home
improvement or hardware stores.
4) Protect other rooms
from dust and debris.

12. If part of your renovation includes ripping out your floor
in preparation of putting down a ceramic tile floor, the
floor is normally ripped out down to the existing sub
floor level. Many of the older homes we work on were
built with 1 x 6 subfloor boards, which have gaps
between the boards. If the basement ceiling is
unfinished, dust and small pieces of debris can fall
through those gaps .
5) Prepare the room
below your kitchen.

13. It is very important to protect and cover everything in
the room below the area being renovated. When the
basement ceiling is unfinished, our carpenters staple a
plastic barrier to the underside of the floor joist and
completely cover the ceiling below. The plastic remains
there until the new tar paper and wire mesh is
installed. Then, we take the plastic down and clean the
lower level.

14. You can succeed the remodeling journey with minimal
stress by planning ahead and knowing what to expect.
Kitchen Designs strives to help our customers with
every aspect of their renovations.

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