Kitchen remodeling mistakes | Consumer Reports
Kitchen remodeling mistakes | Consumer Reports
What’s the secret to a successful kitchen remodel? Consumer Reports asked contractors and homeowners who have renovated. Good planning is one key to avoiding common design goofs like these.For additional reviews, tips, and recommendations check us out at http://www.ConsumerReports.org and Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/1Nlb1Ez
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Do it yourself. Everything you need is at Home Depot and in books and on YouTube. You will save thousands, learn a ton, and feel a real sense of accomplishment.
The best way to do is how Saddlerock Investments LLC Rory Shannon Does it! LOL
They use a Jose Mesa, right out of Mexico with no skills or education of any kind as he confirmed so, but cheap! " I learn on the job!" As he stated. In reference to my house that I bought from this investor, the kitchen granite counter is placed so high that it cuts through the kitchen window, so no open and close privileges, not only but they had to remove the window screen, since it no longer fits the window! What the irony of it is that the kitchen was absolutely perfect prior to Jose Mesa getting to it!
Do NOT get a La Cornu range! It’s in this footage and those ranges are expensive and absolute crap. Great eye candy. They don’t work reliably!
Having your materials on hand is excellent advice
We’re glad we didn’t put anything, no sink, no burners, in the island. We also listened to Chris Kimball, he has a lot of valuable advise and experience.
I wish I would have known more before getting started about how to waterproof the floor below the sink and the wall behind it. In addition, I had no knowledge regarding moisture condensation in the space behind the sink wall or how do deal with it.
The design lesson that worked for me was to leave the space above the sink countertop with no cabinets. Instead I used deep, tall cabinets on a separate wall for storage. This left me with lots of surface work area and a compact easy to reach storing space.
Did they really spell research wrong? Mark Kotkin Director of Reserch
Kitchen renos are the biggest ripoff in the construction business. Spending 30k on new cabinets/countertop and sink is crazy. Its the highest profit margin reno for contractors. They are GOUGING you. Hell a new kitchen should not cost as much as a new car!
Never trust Consumer Reports.
Just hire some Mexicans, they we’re all thinkin it. I can say it. 😂
Mistake #1: Deciding to "remodel" the kitchen.
I tried to put an island in my kitchen but it was too big. And the water surrounding the island flooded everything. So I brought it back to the lake.
They are all great ideas. Such great tips!
0:21 that’s where I fucked up😂
And never install a microwave over the oven. Makes for tight quarters when canning or attempting to handle stock pots.
Cutting that pepper up with the seeds still intact. Gordon Ramsey is crying somewhere.
Good lighting in a work space is a SAFETY issue not just convenience or esthetics. So you can See how you are mishandling the knives.
I wish there is a window by the stove. I don’t understand why they put the sink by the window. The window makes sense for stinky food and smoke.
Every time someone changes their mind, it’s apparently a $1500 flat fee.
Want to go from roper fridge to thermadoor? $1500.
Change the microwave from black to stainless? $1500.
Move the garbage disposal to the other side of the sink $1500
Bump the wall out on the house another ten feet? $1500.
very nice.
Home owners are idiots. Build an impressive kitchen to amaze your friends and then never cook.
Nice ideas, thanks for sharing. I will be looking forward to your next video until then please take care and God bless!
For us right-handed people, we need the dishwasher to the left of the sink. It’s so frequently on the right side and is inconvenient. I’m not a CKD but I’ve been cooking for about 60 years, so I have good "kitchen logic". This is my comfort zone. I could spend all day in a well-designed kitchen
Tip #1 – put off the kitchen remodel until you can actually afford it. Taking out a loan is not "you can afford it". You can afford it means you can write a check for it when it’s done without taking money from someone else.
Tip #2 – if someone tells you that it’s reasonable to throw away a kitchen every 20 years, tell them that you’d like them to install something good enough that you won’t have to throw it away in 20 years. I’ve heard far too many people suggest that a $60K kitchen remodel (or money equivalent in the future) every 20 years is reasonable in a $275K house. It’s sheer stupidity. Who are you impressing? Certainly not your heirs.
My garbage bins are located under the counter where I do my prep work. Huge mistake. I’d put them under sink that is next to prep area.
Mistake – quality of light – mismatched color temperatures and light sources with poor color rendering index (CRI.) Read up on these specifications, this is especially important with LED and fluorescent light sources.
Welp… there goes that. My fiancé’s family are our landlords & they put our stove/oven in the middle of our kitchen with no ventilation & or hood…. the so called kitchen island is immediately next to our couch. They swear that range hoods do not work & are eye sores.
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It is important to have two refrigerators in the kitchen. One for the beer, and all the fish I will or did catch, and one for "her" stuff.
that dumbshit kitchen is bigger than my kitchen and living room combined and has what 4 pots in a steamer chest sized drawer ??
Ha women
Another mistake people often make is not putting drawers (instead of cupboards) wherever they will fit. Squatting down to rummage through a cupboard is not my idea of fun!
Go in a hardware store to get advice???? My sides are hurting from all the laughter!!
If I had hired high end contractors and they didn’t bother telling me something was wrong with the plan i.e. cabinets bumping, walkthrough spaces not wide enough, missing standard appliance, etc., I would charge the job back to them per detail they didn’t bother to highlight my design error while laughing behind my back or thinking I would pay them the rest of the money when I could have done the job myself but PAID for "professional" advice that never happened.
Caveat: Unless I chose to completely rework the space or a major part of it after the work was complete Or… I argued with their tips to do it differently.
As for your own issues with design, if you’re too ignorant to measure twice and cut once, then you deserve the hands on crap kitchen you get.
My kitchen is very plain (fancy doors are expensive and also tend to gather dust) but the only mistake I made when I designed it was in the choice of door handles. I like the nice long length of the handles I have but I don’t like their sharp edges (I bash my hands on them when cleaning if I’m not extra careful) and would now choose D-shape handles.
Some other good advice when hiring a licensed contractor; ask for a time frame and have them stick to it! Most contractors work multiple projects, and usually end up costing you valuable time.
Forgot to mention. Down let Beatle Juice ( Beet ) do your kitchen renovation.
If you think appliance garages are a must have, you’ve been talking to a hardware store employee.
Everyone wants 3 things,a good job,done fast and cheap.you can only get 2 out of 3
2:52 "Survey Reserch" 😂
Gross – a drawer for garbage is disgusting. Those drawers end up stinking to high heaven. You can tuck the can under the counter, maybe under the sink but I would never waste an entire cabinet on GARBAGE. Recycle, compost and don’t buy garbage generating stuff and you won’t need that stinky "improvement"
Hand jesters….getting scary
Great Video! Thanks!
Do not pay before you inspect EVERYTHING because you will NEVER get them back to repair
The are measurements for common and measurements for what is code on the internet. There is planner designs and placement on the internet. It’s not that hard to plan it out before any money is spent.
I think this guy doesn’t have control over his arms.
Video done. Bob hangs up his fake tv arms, puts on his coat with his real arms and goes home.
How can you generalise about size of a centre island. What if your kitchen is massive? It’s proportional surely.
David You are so right, I hate doing it but the house we just purchased had a bad layout in the kitchen. Outdoor 1960s home so we need to upgrade but how much would just cabinets and counter top cost ?
DIY tip: Pre-built pantries often need disassembled or altered to be installed… at least that’s what I found. Baseboard can hide the 2×4 base that was needed after shortening a pantry.
Lesson I learned, don’t hire friends, friend of a friend or make friends with the contractor or the workmen!