Great Tips for Avoiding Kitchen Remodel Mistakes

How many "top 10 tips" or "great ideas" articles have we read on the internet telling us the most basic of common sense tips for doing your remodeling work? Selena Maranjian of the Fool.com gives a contrarian point of view of things you should not do when remodeling your kitchen. Great pearls of wisdom:

Here's some more detailed advice:

• When shopping for cabinets, don't neglect less-expensive options, such as IKEA, which has an extensive line of kitchen furnishings.
• For counters, granite is great, but consider some newfangled possibilities, too, such as colored concrete. For floors, understand that wood floors can get damaged by water, and tile floors can be hard on feet and damaged by falling Le Creuset pots. A host of other options exist, such as cork. (Tile or hardwood can still be considered, of course.)
• Make sure you have lots of light. You don't have to turn on every light all the time, but if the kitchen is dark in spots at times, you may wish you'd added more lights during the job.

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