If you want a new look for your kitchen, but don’t want to shell out the big bucks for a full-scale kitchen remodeling job, you’re probably looking for a few ideas on how to create the biggest effect for the smallest impact on your bank account. Fortunately, as with many home improvement projects, sometimes it’s the smallest things that can have the most dramatic effects. Here are four areas where your can remodel your kitchen without, hopefully, having to refinance your whole house.
If the walls could talk…
They would probably say that they’re tired of their worn-out look and could use a fresh makeover. One of the most dramatic changes that you can make to your home — the kitchen especially — is to apply a fresh coat of paint, new paneling, wallpaper, or even spruce up the walls with a natural-looking wood. Even changing the color tone a notch in your kitchen can produce dramatic effects, and the vibe you receive from your kitchen will change dramatically if you choose to move from bright to dark or vice versa.
Throw out your kitchen sink…
And purchase a new one. Purchasing a new, stainless-steel kitchen sink doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg, and especially if you consult with a kitchen remodeling contractor beforehand, you can avoid having to replace your entire kitchen counter top. Though, while replacing your kitchen countertop is the number three idea on our list, if you happen to like your countertop, you probably don’t want to spend the extra money fixing something that isn’t broke, so to speak.
Class-up your kitchen counter top
If you have a large kitchen counter top, or if you have an island in the middle of your kitchen, when you’re revamping your kitchen’s walls, that might be a good time to consider a change to the largest kitchen mass area besides your flooring. While replacing your kitchen’s countertop can be expensive depending on what materials you use to replace it with, you can also find an attractive kitchen counter top for budget prices that will help, even more, to create a new look and feel for your home’s culinary center.
Replace your kitchen’s flooring
Unless you have a kitchen the size of a house, replacing your existing flooring can be an inexpensive kitchen remodeling project. While kitchens and carpeting do not always work well together for a wide variety of reasons, maybe adding a foot-warming touch to your cold vinyl flooring can make a big difference in how you perceive your kitchen. Likewise, if you’re currently sporting carpeting in your kitchen, maybe making the switch to tile flooring, vinyl flooring, or even hardwood flooring, will create the ‘new kitchen’ look and feel that you’re looking for.
Remodeling your kitchen does not need to be a massively expensive undertaking. Whether you use one of these kitchen remodeling ideas or all of them, each one, individually, can make a drastic difference in how you perceive your home’s cooking center. Fortunately, even if you can’t afford to make multiple changes to your kitchen all at once, these small kitchen remodeling projects can be worked on individually, at a pace that is comfortable for you and your budget. Even little by little and step by step, it won’t take you long to turn your current kitchen into a new, and more inviting, room that you will actually enjoy spending time in.
Oceanic Construction provides kitchen and bathroom remodeling services to Bonita Springs, Estero, Fort Meyers and Naples, Florida.