- What style of kitchen are you after?
- Consider what the rest of your house is like, the building itself and the internal furnishings. How will your kitchen fit in with this?
- What sort of person are you?
- Are you looking for modern and contemporary, or traditional and classic?
- What overall effect do you want to create?
- Warm and cosy, or light and airy?
- Dark and sophisticated, or friendly and cheerful?
- Will you choose real wood or wood effect?
- A natural or a painted finish?
- High gloss or matt? Think about who is going to be using your kitchen. Small sticky fingers and high gloss doors are a high maintenance combination!
- A patterned or textured effect door choice however, will be more forgiving than a plain door when it comes to showing up marks.
- Consider what type of cupboards and drawers you can best use.
- Cupboards can be full height floor to ceiling units, dresser units which reach down from the wall to rest on the worktop. And the wall units come in 3 different heights to accommodate your ceiling space. Drawers can be deep for pans, or shallow for cutlery and the like.
- How will you access your corner units and what do you want to keep in them; items you only use once or twice a year wont need an expensive carousel. But you may want an integral waste bin or pull out shelves.
