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A kitchen remodel is something that you have been planning
for months, and now it’s time to begin. But wait! There are still a few things
to stop and think about including in your remodel that might add convenience to
your day-to-day life. Let’s look at some things that make food preparation and
cleanup faster, give your kitchen extra storage space, and make your kitchen a
much more pleasant place to spend time, shall we?
Oatmeal, instant coffee, tea, thawing foods- the list goes
on forever! “What list?” you may ask. Well, it’s the list of reasons why you
should strongly consider incorporating an electric
hot water dispenser into your new kitchen sink. Hot water dispensers
usually float around the $200 range, but when you consider that time is more
valuable than money, they pay for themselves. Just the amount of time you save
boiling water for hot cocoa during one winter justifies the purchase. It can
also make cleaning crusty tomatoes off of your pots and pans a much quicker
experience. Usually you can find a dispenser with a faucet that fits in with
your style of remodel.
Backsplash! No, it’s not a painful dive you do to impress
your friends at the pool, it’s an effective way to improve the look, and value,
of your kitchen without spending a whole lot of money. Usually made out of some
sort of tile, backsplashes go on the wall of your kitchen behind the counter.
Behind the stove is a good place to focus your backsplash. Some people will
even shell out for more expensive tiling behind their stove, and use less
expensive tiling elsewhere in their kitchen. A backsplash only needs to be big
enough to cover your wall in areas that might get splattered with tomato sauce
or the contents of a poorly-covered blender, but sometimes people run them
throughout the entirety of their kitchen. It’s really up to you, but stick with
what looks good, otherwise what’s the point?
Now, most kitchen remodels and upgrades include a
replacement of cabinets, but don’t get so caught up in how they look that you
forget what they’re there for: storage! One thing we all waste too much time
and energy on is shuffling through our kitchen drawers and cabinets as we
either search for what we’re looking for or try to make room for something that
we’re unloading out of the dishwasher. By using drawers that extend out further
and incorporating taller drawers, dealing with the organization of your pots,
pans, Pyrex, and all the assorted lids that come with them can become a much
easier and streamlined process. For years, I had to bend over and reach far
underneath my stove and restack all of my pots, but in my current kitchen the
entire bottom of the cabinet acts as a drawer that extends out for much easier
access to my cooking wares. Not only does it save time, but it also saves my
back.
Speaking of drawers and cabinets, did you know there might
be some more places you can add storage in your kitchen that you may not have
thought of before? Measure the space that will be above your fridge and see if
it’s tall enough to place matching cabinets. Cabinets above your fridge are
perfect for storing things that you will only use seasonally, or perhaps not at
all (the recipe book your parents gave you). If your fridge is going to be near
a corner of your kitchen and will have a wall near the left or right side of
it, make sure you leave enough room to open its door without it banging into
the wall. If you have to create a gap to keep the fridge away from a wall to
its side, you can use that gap to install a tall cabinet with shelves on the
inside of it (perfect for storing wine or spirits). The more storage your
kitchen has, the less cluttered it will feel.
One thing that always makes my kitchen feel cluttered is the
trash. That’s right, you have a giant receptacle in your kitchen meant for
collecting trash. The best way to deal with it is to give yourself some space
to store your trash underneath one of the counters or behind a corner in your
kitchen. You can install a TrashRac
to the inside of your kitchen cabinet door to keep the trash out of your sight
and away from your naughty dog(s). The only problem with the TrashRac is that it’s
only 3 gallons, so you have to empty it frequently.
One last thing to consider before you commence your kitchen
remodel is how easy it will be to clean. The two pointers that I can give from
experience are that tile is much more difficult to sweep than linoleum or
hardwood flooring, as the grout between the tiles is recessed and will collect
and hold dirt and that recessing your sink into your counter will make cleaning
your countertops way quicker, as you can just brush all the crumbs and other
junk into the sink and wash it down the drain (as opposed to having it stick to
the sides of the sink that are coming up over the countertop). I’m sure there
are plenty of other things you can add on to your remodel or consider to make
your life much easier, but sometimes you don’t figure out what they are until
it’s too late; so be sure to spend as much time researching and thinking about
your remodel as you can.
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