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7 ways to reduce the cost of the kitchen

Updated: Jun 6, 2019

In any repair kitchen set occupies an impressive budget niche. When you don’t have much money, or simply don’t want to waste money, the question is “how to save money?”. So, 7 tips that will help.

1. Is the complete kit required?

Assess the dimensions of the future kitchen, match them with your needs and mentally answer the question: do you really need the upper sections in the kitchen? Modern kitchen design involves a great many alternatives to wall cabinets, which account for about a third of the total cost of a headset. Moreover, hooks, crossbars and wall shelves that can replace the upper sections will cost you much less.

However, it is worth considering some pitfalls. Notice how quickly dust accumulates in your kitchen. If your budget repair is still at the stage of bare walls, ask your neighbors - they will share their experience. Finally, project the answers to your willingness to dust with the necessary regularity.


2. Angle is not always needed.

When planning the interior design of the kitchen, take a look at the parameters of the room: if you planned to make a corner kitchen set, but one of the adjacent walls may well contain all the functions you need, perhaps the angle and extra sections are not so necessary? Of course, it is nice to have a couple of niches for storage “just in case”, but only in the case when they have the same “just in case” money when ordering them. And when you are dealing with a budget repair, you should save on excesses.


3. And what about the inside?

And from the inside out if you want to save can be anything. We mean that the box sections themselves can be made of inexpensive material with not the most expressive coloring; for especially unprincipled ones, it is completely collected from different shades. In fact, you will see it only during the operation of the kitchen, and the rest of the kitchen will look neat and quite aesthetic. But on the final cost of the order it will affect very favorably.


4. Simplicity - the key to success

And when budget repairs are ahead, this rule becomes the motto of the whole process. From inexpensive types of sections, you can select the hinged doors and drawers in moderation. The rest is just a matter of your needs and desires, but it is important to distinguish one from the other. Do you really need three cargo and no less? Are you sure that without a large flap at the top the kitchen will lose half of its functionality? Radial shelves, completing the headset array, should certainly be closed by a door curved in shape? All these solutions are definitely refreshing the design of the kitchen, but the volume of necessary expenses from this only inexorably grows. Weigh the pros and cons, try to find a middle ground between the additional functions in the design of the kitchen interior and their value.


5. The accessories can not be saved ... or can you?

Naturally, choosing the cheapest fittings is a very rash decision. With it, the kitchen set will not last for a long time, and you will spend so much nerves that the saying “miser pays twice” will be remembered for all your life. However, kitchen design is not necessarily the most expensive and durable hardware, especially if you do not plan to cook it in this kitchen for the rest of your days. The current pace of life, especially among young people, has a tendency to move. Therefore, planning a budget repair, which should last you 5-10 years, you can find out from the master about the types and pricing of accessories of the so-called medium class. These can be quite good samples that can serve not only your daily life, but also your wallet.


6. Wood is not a stone, but good too

Choosing a countertop, we all want to equip our kitchen with a working surface of natural or at least artificial stone. However, even the latter are many times superior in price tops from moisture-resistant chipboard. However, they are often used in the budget design of the kitchen interior, and not to say that they were very bad. The quality indicators for the surfaces of such chipboard are not so much inferior to stone, and the appearance of the coating can be chosen to your taste, depending on the scale in which you plan to create a kitchen design.


7. Facades are more modest

It is hardly necessary to talk about how much the price of a kitchen suite soars when different decorative patterns, glass inserts, profiles, and even more so - artistic carving make up the order. When not much money is allocated for the design of the kitchen interior, such excesses should be abandoned, leaving only the minimalist surfaces of smooth doors - by the way, in the context of modern design, they look even more attractive due to the simplicity and versatility of the lines.

The facades themselves can be ordered from the same chipboard covered with veneer. There are still sashes covered with colored film - they are cheaper, but the quality does not differ at all, while the chipboard will serve you for another 5-7 years, and even longer in an aluminum profile.


Kitchen design is a very costly and demanding process, and if you really want to save money, you need to do it wisely. Saving is a balance of price and quality, in which you make compromises from one side to the other. However, with proper use of the listed loopholes, you can arrange not only a reasonable cost, but also an aesthetic kitchen.



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