Kitchen Consulting Services
The Kitchen Audit
The Kitchen Audit is for anyone frustrated with their current kitchen and looking for ways to improve functionality without expensive updating, layout changes, or committing to a costly remodel. Especially valuable for DIY or small contractor projects.
This in-person or virtual walk-through lets you share your most pressing kitchen challenges. We look at your space together, discuss how you use it in different scenarios, and consider options from various vantage points to find cost-effective ways to make the kitchen work better.
You’ll come out with a fresh perspective on your space, the ability to pay closer attention to your needs, and a greater understanding of what features you’ll want for a future project.
- Evaluate the layout of the current kitchen
- Uncover pitfalls and pain points that lead to poor workflows
- Review how you use the kitchen during different scenarios— alone, with others, and while entertaining
- Identify constraints and inefficiencies around your unique needs
- Discuss life and cooking styles and ways to make it easier
- Solidify likes and wants vs. dislikes and frustrations
- Prioritize small changes that will lead to greater functionality
Why do a Kitchen Audit?
You need to know what’s not working in your current kitchen and why to improve it. The Kitchen Audit helps diagnose key kitchen deficiencies and areas of dysfunction, as well as identify what’s working well.
This offering will:
- Save a fortune by potentially bypassing a costly kitchen remodel
- Provides rapid benefits of having a kitchen that’s easier to work in, which encourages more cooking at home, healthier than takeout and dining out regularly
- Prepare you for future upgrades if you’re just looking to buy time until you can invest in a more substantial project
- Help you gain valuable insights about how you use your kitchen and focus on key areas that will improve your kitchen experience
The Kitchen Audit includes:
- 15-minute discovery call to get to know each other and talk briefly about the current state of your kitchen and what you’d like to achieve.
- Online lifestyle and kitchen assessment to provide insights ahead of the virtual or in-home walkthrough.
- 90-minute to 2-hour virtual or in-home kitchen walk-through to see your kitchen, discuss the space, and share your lifestyle, cooking, and entertaining needs in real-time.
- 30-minute virtual session to clarify information from the walk-through and discuss any additional pertinent items that provide valuable insights and let us refine options for customized solutions.
- Two-page overview of the kitchen challenges, prioritization of the most pressing focus areas, and up to three ideas for improving the current kitchen or planning for a new one in the future.
- Transcript of the walkthrough conversation as a reference.
- 30-minute virtual follow-up (optional) to review the overview and address additional thoughts and questions. It’s also a great time to discuss any next steps.
The Kitchen Optimizer
The Kitchen Optimizer is for those contemplating a new kitchen—either a new build or a larger-scale remodel that includes a change in the layout and/or an expansion of the current kitchen footprint.
More extensive projects require more thought and time and greater financial investment. You want to get things right. The sooner you know what you want, need, and why, the more confident and clear you’ll be knowing your kitchen functionality and features goals. This is valuable and complementary information for the design professionals creating your beautiful dream kitchen.
The Kitchen Optimizer is also helpful for anyone currently working with a designer, architect, or builder to renovate or remodel, looking for more clarity with the plans, or hindered by indecision.
Why do the Kitchen Optimizer?
We find the deficiencies and dysfunctions in the current kitchen or preliminary plans and look for ways to improve them.
This offering will:
- Streamline your options based on your needs, priorities, and budget
- Reduce stress, anxiety, and analysis paralysis from too many decisions, endless options, countless opinions, and inconsistent reviews
- Save money and time by minimizing the need for costly redesigns and reducing the likelihood of purchasing products with features that won’t serve your needs
- Create a high-level plan for the layout, appliances, materials, and products with features that support you
- 15-minute discovery call to get to know each other and talk briefly about the current state of your kitchen and what you’d like to achieve.
- Online lifestyle and kitchen assessment to provide insights ahead of the virtual or in-home walkthrough.
- 90-minute to 2-hour virtual or in-home kitchen walk-through to see your kitchen, discuss the space, and share your lifestyle, cooking, and entertaining needs in real-time.
- 1-hour virtual session to clarify information from the walk-through and discuss any additional pertinent items that provide valuable insights and let us refine options for customized solutions.
- 1-page preliminary overview to make sure the objectives from the walk-through and assessments are in alignment before creating the plan.
- 2-page overview of the top kitchen priorities, focus areas, and wishlist to provide a solid reference point for upcoming work.
- 2-page high-level plan to share with the design team, architect, or builder.
- 1-hour virtual review of the plan, final thoughts, and discuss additional options for support.
The Bespoke
Bespoke add-on options offer guidance and support as needed. Perfect for anyone who has participated in the Kitchen Audit or Kitchen Optimizer looking for additional project assistance.
Why do a Bespoke?
- Expertise is required, but outside of the parameters of the standard offers
- Some of the project plans and phases have already been completed
- Need a second opinion
- Have an unusual ask or unique situation not covered in the previous offers
Bespoke options:
- Hourly consulting for additional project guidance
- Assist with kitchen inventory to assess what you have and address future needs
- Product research for appliances, materials, and more that support your life, cooking, and entertaining styles
- Image search to help visualize potential improvements
- Create a detailed product plan
- Accompany you on a showroom visit (local clients only)
- Curation, procurement, and unboxing of new product and tool upgrades purchased through KITCHD
- Implementation and operation verification for large and small appliances
- Client training on new large and small appliances
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