How often should you update your kitchen? If you’re jonesing for a new kitchen, that’s the question on your mind.
In most homes, the kitchen tends to be one of the rooms which is used the most. Giving you a place to cook, eat, and socialize, this space has long been a crucial element in a home, and it would be very hard to live without it.
With all of this use, though, rooms like these don’t tend to last quite as long as the others in your home. To help you to get an idea of how long most kitchens will last, this post will be exploring some of the key elements which make them age, giving you an idea of when your kitchen might be done for.
Update Your Kitchen According to Time & Trends
Kitchen decor is a surprisingly large area in the field of design, and there are loads of trends that are always on the move. This means that most kitchens will start to look a little bit dated as time goes on. Keeping a room like this in fashion will be essential if you want to host, while also making you feel better about the room as you use it on a day to day basis. Of course, though, there’s no need to move from a style if you still really like it.
Use & Abuse
Most people will use their kitchen least once a day. Here, they’ll enjoy cooking, with people passing through and using other parts of the space throughout the day. While they are designed to be hardy, this can make the room deteriorate very quickly. After a handful of years, it will be easy to tell that you have used your kitchen so much. And, the chances are likely you’ll become dissatisfied with its condition happy once it becomes very obvious. Cleaning can help with this, but nothing will beat a renovation.
The Environment
The high standards of energy efficiency being achieved today far surpass the standards of your old kitchen appliances. This means that owning washing machines, cookers, and other machines which are getting old can be very bad for the environment, especially when you use them each day. In most cases, enough improvement has been made in this area each decade or so to make it worth upgrading.TechnologyEnvironmental technology isn’t the only advancement being seen in kitchens, though, with loads of other techy gizmos and cooking gadgets which are designed to make life easier hitting the market. Of course, in this sort of field, staying ahead of the kitchen remodeling game can often be expensive. This will be worth it, though, especially when you are able to use your kitchen for jobs which you never thought would have been possible at home.
Wrap-up: Update Your Kitchen
With all of this in mind, you should have a much better idea of when you should be replacing your kitchen. It can be easy to leave something like this until it is too late. But, then you force yourself to live with something which you don’t like. Further, you might even grow to dislike the idea of spending time in your home. Thankfully, you can remodel your kitchen without it being too very painful a job.
She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificates in Natural Health and Herbology from accredited programs. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.
Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."
Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.
Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.
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