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Diy
Kitchen Cupboard Designs
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Why
most people fail with diy kitchen cupboard designs
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I
call it the ready, aim, fire theory. Most people just want to fire when
building their kitchen. They don't put thought, planning and preparation
into the design of the kitchen. Because they're
failing to prepare they are preparing to
fail. And what doesn't have to be becomes a costly exercise.
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Our Kitchen Designs Services
We provide design services to clients in Cape Town, Gauteng, Pretoria,
Westgate, Bloemfontein and just about any place in South Africa.
We offer this service to clients that don't have any idea where to start as
well as to those who have an idea in mind but just need to convert it into a
photo realistic picture. View our kitchen designs samples
What we need from our clients to do a design:
> Floor plan of kitchen, bathroom or bedroom with dimensions
( Dimensions includes: Ceiling height, windows and doors dimensions etc)
> Rough sketch of where their cupboards, fridge, sink etc. must be positioned
> Desired finishes of kitchen doors, panels and counter tops.
What are our design fees?
> R200 per hour (Design fee is reimbursed on acceptance of quotation)
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Our Design Services Includes :
> Floor plan
> 2D Views of all the walls
> Dimensions of kitchen units
> 3D Views of all the walls
A list of the kitchen or bedroom
units are provided at an additional
fee should the client need it.
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More and more kitchen
companies are buying kitchen design
software.
This helps you to
see what the design of your kitchen is going to look like as well as where
you can make changes before you build your kitchen. Designing a kitchen
with design software is also important because it shows you what kitchen
cabinets can actually fit into a kitchen. Many times people come to me
with a great design but when I place all the cabinet they've chosen into
the floor plan of the designing program they don't fit in. A kitchen designing
program also works all your cabinets out to scale in 3D as well as 2D
and renders it in a photo realistic picture that looks as if a photographer
took a photo after the kitchen has been built. So before you spend R30000
on a new kitchen make sure you know what it's going to look like first.
Even if you're planning to use a DIY system to do it yourself it's still
best to get a floor plan and 3D layout. It will be much easier to build
with plans you can refer to every time you get stuck.
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Diy
kitchen cupboard designs can be a difficult task. There are a few things
you need to know and look out for when designing a kitchen.
1.Measure the height of the ceiling
2.Measure the length of each wall
3.Measure the distance of the wall to the window
4.Measure the distance from the floor to the bottom of the window.
5.Measure the width and height of each door and window.
6.Measure the distance from the wall to the water point and waste pipe for the sink
7.Measure the distance from the wall to the fridge plug point.
8.Measure the distance from the wall to the oven plug point.
9.Measure the distance from the washing machine,dishwasher or tumble dryer plug point
to the wall.
10.Measure everything again to be sure you made no mistakes.
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KitchenDraw.com
is a website that supplies free 3D kitchen design software. I used
Kitchen Draw to do all the designs on my entire website. When I
say free I mean they give you 30 free hours to use the program free
of charge and you can do a lot of designing in 30 hours. The average
size kitchen consisting of about 15 - 20 cupboards takes about an
hour to design with KitchenDraw. I've been using this design software
for about 5 years now so I can do a kitchen in about 15 minutes,
if I move it!!
KitchenDraw
is so user-friendly and can be used by beginners and professional
kitchen designers. If you use certain size cabinets you can customize
the cabinets in KitchenDraw to your sizes. If you want to make up
a special cabinet you can build it panel for panel and still render
it 3D with color and all. It took me about 2 month to design a kitchen
properly and about a year to know most of the ins and outs of this
design software. Another feature that makes it really superior to
other kitchen design programs is the views you get when looking
out the kitchen windows. You can choose sea views, garden views
or a view looking out on Italy.
What I like
most about KitcheDraw is how easy it is to import kitchen cupboards
into the floor plan All you have to do is drag and drop it. You
can also download catalogues from KitchenDraw.com
and import your own melamine, veneer and other colors that you choose.
There is so much more I can tell you about this design software
but what I'm really trying to say is " KitchenDraw " is
the Ferrari of kitchen design programs. Go check it out it's a huge
advantage to your business.
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A
look at the designs of the floor plan
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In the floor plan above you will notice that the sink,fridge and oven is placed in a
triangular position. Why?Well because if you are washing the dishes or getting
a snack out the fridge you don't want to bother the person cooking by the oven.
Let's look at the 10 points on diy kitchen designs mentioned above.
1. Measure the height of the ceiling
The roof height of the kitchen is important because this will determine how high your actual
kitchen will be.A kitchen is normally between 2100mm and 2450mm in height. The higher the
broom cupboard of a kitchen is the higher the wall unit will be. After all,you don't want the wall
unit to look out of proportion hanging high up in the air.
Many cabinetmakers measure from the floor to under the cornice of the roof. This measurement
will work when designing a kitchen or you can measure from the floor to the ceiling. But before
you do the designing of the kitchen make sure your topfiller(the piece of wood that closes the
gap between the top of your wall unit and the roof)is at least 20mm bigger than the cornice
in the corner of your roof. I make my topfiller 150mm high that way I know my cupboards will
always fit. Plus designing a kitchen with a low topfiller almost looks as if you ran out of space
on the wall but made the cupboard fit.
2. Measure the lenght of each wall
Another factor to look at with diy kitchen cupboard designs is how long the walls are that you
can work with. The longer the kitchen walls are the better. This means that you can place more
kitchen units in the kitchen when designing it, making it more functional.If you've measured
the walls of the kitchen correctly the designing of the kitchen will be a breeze. Take a look
at the figure below before we continue.
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Back already!!!Great!
You will notice in the designing of this diy kitchen that I made the measurement at the top end of
the door 2195mm and at the bottom 2200mm. This is not far of from the real deal. Always
remember that all wall a,roofs and floors are always skew. This is why it's so important before
designing a kitchen to make sure all your measurements are correct.If you place a floor unit
in the design of a kitchen it might not make a difference but it if you place a tall unit next to the
door in a kitchen you might see very clearly that the door is skew.
3. Measure the distance of the wall to the window
This procedure is exactly the same as the one we just did in the previous step. In the floor plan
in the first design of a kitchen you will see that the window is 700mm away from the wall.
Remember to measure the top distance between the window and the wall as well as the
bottom distance between the window and the wall. Designing a kitchen with clear measurements
also makes it easier to build when the designing is done.
4. Measure the distance from the floor to the bottom of the window.
Measure the height of the window by measuring the distance between the floor and the bottom
of the window. The countertop height in a kitchen is normally 900mm but cabinet makers do
make them higher.
DIY Kitchen designs with low windows is in fashion these days. Just make sure when designing
the kitchen that you don't place kitchen units in front of the window. Place your kitchen units
either next to the window or under it.
5. Measure the width and height of each door and window.
The reason why this is so important to do is because you want to determine the height under
which you are going to place a kitchen wall unit and how far from the corner of the wall you
are going to fix it. Before designing a kitchen you want to have the measurements accurate.
After all, It doesn't matter how great the design of the kitchen came out,if your measurements
are wrong you can not build that which you designed.
6. Measure the distance from the wall to the water point and waste pipe
for the sink
The tap which gets fitted on the diy kitchen sink unit must be in the middle of the kitchen unit.
So the flex pipe that connects to the tap has to be able to reach the tap.That is if you are going
to use flex pipe. Allot of plumbers also use copper pipe in a kitchen.Copper pipe is allot stronger
than flex pipe but you need to weld the pipe with a portable blowtorch and not all cabinetmakers
happen to have one of those laying around. When designing a kitchen make sure you measure
the length from the wall to the water point and waste as well as the height at which the points
sit on the wall from a kitchen floor.
7. Measure the distance from the wall to the fridge plug point.
8. Measure the distance from the wall to the oven plug point.
9. Measure the distance from the washing machine,dishwasher or tumble dryer
plug point to the wall.
Follow the same procedure as what you did in step 6 but remember to make sure that the
fridge plug sits at least 1000mm above the floor. When designing a kitchen you can even place
it 1300mm of the floor.This is probably a more suitable measurement. A oven plug point as well
as all your appliances plug points must be under a height of 870mm. When designing a kitchen
I place my points under 600mm then I know they won't be in the way of fitting other kitchen
units.
10. Measure everything again to be sure you made no mistakes.
If you're not sure about a measurement in your diy kitchen designs measure again. It sounds
like double the work to but if you've finished designing the kitchen,assembled the kitchen units
and installed them and realized they don't fit,you will spend 4x more time cutting down the units
not to mention the doors to make them fit.
SO IF YOU'RE NOT SURE MEASURE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!!
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