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Trendiest and Fabulous kitchens are everyone’s dream. Its not practically possible or feasible to keep

demolishing and renovating kitchen designs. All that we see in Interior design magazines, may not be possible to implement due to budget constraints and simply due to space restrictions.

Then, what could be the possible solution for these issues? 

How can we keep the kitchen functional and yet beautiful with significant design changes?

Here are some tips for this :

1. Changing the doors of your kitchen cabinets:

  Polishing/Varnishing the existing wooden cabinet doors shall not just give a great enhancement and mood lift, but also help keep kitchen bugs and fungus at bay due to the new pungent alcohol smell.

1. Upgrading your hinges from normal to soft close hinges:

Unfortunately most people do not try this for the fear of having more holes on the existing door. Actually, a talented and sensible interior supervisor/contractor can identify the right carpenter for you and get to upgrade the hinges in a very professional way. Keep in mind that one need not always go for branded hinges. A well experienced interior supervisor can get you best of the non-branded hinges as well and give you replacement guarantee as well. 

1. Replacing the MDF kitchen doors is the best option if you are also planning to change your hinges. MDF doors are very basic wooden density. So, if you try to re drill them for new hinges, it is sure to warp or give away completely.
2. Supposing your based kitchen doors are made of stronger wood, choosing an experienced interior supervisor/project manager can help you identify if the doors can be scraped, reshaped, flattened to fix a fresh laminate on top. Choose a gloss finish laminate if you are 

Already using a matt finish or vice versa.

1. Painting the kitchen cabinets with glossy white paint can also be a cheaper and better remodelling option.
2. Make sure to changes the runners in the draws while changing the hinges.
3. Sometimes changing the granite slab and kitchen sink alone can completely uplift the kitchen mood and a give new-look feel to kitchen. 
4. Consider installing glass doors for wall cabinets with lighting inside. Even if you don’t change the entire base cabinet doors. Just this one change can give a totally different look to the kitchen. Make sure you match the frame of the wall cabinet doors to the base cabinet doors. Or you can go for contrast colours as well.
5. Supposing you have a kitchen that is decent enough but you find it all too cluttered, then the best option would be to introduce a tall storage cabinet or some more wall cabinets to remove the gadgets from the kitchen top and mount them into a wall cabinet with a switch to operate nearby.
6. Changing or fixing a new effective chimney could be the best revamping a kitchen might need after all. May reorganizing your stuff into new boxes will do.

Last but not the least, make sure all your plumbing works are intact and install fresh pipes where necessary. This could give a fresh smell to the kitchen. After all, kitchen is the place great smells are produced to treat our nose buds!

Home decoration is a soulful activity. Home is our most personal space.

It’s important to make it the most heart-warming space. Our mind’s beauty gets reflected in our home’s space arrangements.

A chaotic home is a direct reflection of chaotic mind spaces of people who occupy that space.

Here are top 10 easy tips to decorate your home sweet home. Take few minutes out of your busy schedule and put some thought to the lovely space called home where you tend to spend most of your private moments in life!

Choose a nice cosy spot, sip your favourite drink and answer the following questions to yourself. You can even pen down your thoughts if you have the flair for it.

1. What and how do you want your home to look and feel like? Do you want your home to be a tranquil oasis in a busy world? Are your wall colors soothing or do they shout back at you?  Do you want a fun place inside your home for friends to gather, do you need plenty of seating for that?

2. What are your main hobbies and activities? What all do you need for these activities? For instance, if you have interest in tailoring and embroidery that you work on often, get storage containers for it that can be easily opened or put away. If it’s a lot of trouble to get at your collection, you will either won’t spend the time on it, or else you might be tempted to leave it out and risk losing or breaking certain pieces.

3. Who all are using your home space? How many people will be living with you? What ages? It’s important for every individual to have a personal space that’s their own. It could just be a special chair, couch, desk or a section of a room, everyone needs their space. If you’re planning to do dance practices with TV fame dancers, and then an upload on youtube, you’ll need room to move around in front of the Television!

4. What about your precious little things? It’s very easy to become a total mess if things don’t have a place. One ends up feeling overwhelmed with too many things around that are extremely useful yet not available as and when required.  A good filing cabinet is important for all people. You don’t need to be working to own a filing cabinet!  It’s a great place to store all the papers that you don’t know what to do with and also to store all the important guarantee /warranty cards, EB bills etc.!

5. How many furniture’s do you really need? Too many furniture’s can make a room feel much cluttered. The bare important and essential furniture are a couch and two to three chairs, a table and chairs for eating, a bed and place for your clothes. Beyond these essentials, one has to think hard about what is required or what is not required. Will you really use a heavy computer desk or would you rather sit on the couch with a laptop foldable desk? Remember to plan for a work from home set up as well. It’s better to demarcate a place for work from home inside your personal room or to allocate a different work room with a decent office interiors. Call us to get more brilliant tips on work from home plus school set up. We can even get the whole thing done for you. 

6. Think about the traffic flow between rooms. Plan in such a way that you can walk anywhere in the room without bumping into furniture, especially when you are a long cal with your beloved relatives/friends. Try drawing furniture placement on a paper as a first step.

7. Pick a focal point – your home has to have unique features. What do you want to see when you first walk into a room? Do you have nice windows with great lighting? Are you enjoying it? All of feel brighter in sunshine but some people like a darker room set up. Which kind are you?

8. Think about order and organization. Do you bring home pending work every day, or mail, or sports equipment? Where will you put your work stuff? A large bowl/box/hanging bags near the front door can be a great place to drop your mails until you find time to go through it later.

9. Take advantage of free expert advice. Every store and every product line employs professional designers to help people put their furniture and accessories together. If you’re unsure of your decorating skills, it’s better to pick a design you like. Study how they did it either by looking through a catalogue or go to a nearby store. It’s all there assembled and displayed for you. If you like their design ideas and the overall looks, best is to go ahead and do what they’ve done! If the show rooms are not open due to covid-19 issues. Fret not, there are plenty of great magazine to browse through and choose your options.

10. It’s time for planning at least a small vertical garden, if not an elaborate one. Growing your own greens and veggies is the most peaceful activity to do. We can help you with many ideas too.

Watch out for various design discussions in our forthcoming blogs/newsletters.