Custom kitchen design is considered to be the holy grail of kitchen design methods. Most other types of kitchen design are easier, and involve simply taking other people’s ideas and then using them on your kitchen. However, the custom kitchen design allows you to specify exactly how every aspect of the kitchen will be built. As a result, you will be in a better position to end up with a kitchen that will fit you perfectly. In many cases, it will also result in lower maintenance costs depending on the decisions that you make regarding the design.
A common problem many people have with this method of kitchen design is the amount of time it can take. If you have very detailed and unusual requirements, it may take a long time for the contractor to translate your ideas into the outcome you had envisioned. Of course, there is plenty you can do to minimize the time you needed without negatively affecting the quality of the outcome. Some of the measures you can take include:
Always insist on experienced contractors
A contractor who has a lot of on the job experience will be much better than one who does not when it comes to saving time. This is because the former is likely to have perfected the art of identifying ways in which they can reduce the amount of time needed to carry out a particular task. As a result, they will end up saving more time.
The other benefit with an experienced contractor is the fact that they are likely to identify problematic issues before they even start the project. This way, they can then plan on how to tackle it, so that it does not take as much time as it would ordinarily have. This is a skill that can only be borne out of repeated trial and error, and honed by the same.
Get a time guarantee from the contractor
If you are going to use a contractor for the kitchen development, you will first need to sign an agreement. Always go through it to find out any clauses related to timing. There are some contractors who will guarantee that the project will be completed within a certain timespan, failure to which you will pay them a fraction of what you had initially agreed on depending on how much time they take over the limit.
The problem with working with contractors who do not offer these guarantees is that the longer they work, the more you may need to pay them. The cost of kitchen design in such cases can easily spiral out of control, and in the more severe cases can even result in the project stalling due to inability to raise funds for it.
Create an optimal working environment
Making sure that the working environment is optimized for speed can sometimes reduce the amount of time it needs to complete the project. For instance, there are times when you could decide to the design in a piecemeal basis. This way, part of the kitchen is worked on as the other is then used by the family. The problem with this system is that the contractors may have to reduce their pace since the kitchen will be occupied by both them and other members of the family. However, if you vacate the kitchen for some time, you will give them all the space they need to work at full speed.
Consider changing some of your plans based on the contractor’s advice
You may have made design decisions that will require a lot of time to fulfil. In such cases, your contractor can advise you on some of the changes you can make to the design so that you can achieve more or less the same overall feel, but without having to spend too much time on implementation.