We are now in 2010 and its time to tackle a renovation project I have been putting off for some time, a new kitchen. I have decided not to rip out the old kitchen completely because the actual layout of the kitchen is ok; I have instead decided to replace all the cupboard doors and work surfaces with new ones, hopefully saving me money as well.

Me and my wife (mostly my wife!)have been designing the look of our kitchen for the last year and will be going for a more modern look with high gloss cupboard doors and granite worktops, with a tiled floor.

At the weekend we took a trip to our local kitchen store to have a look around and get a rough quote on what it would cost to renovate the kitchen. We looked at various different styles of cupboard doors, but decided that a simple flat design with chrome handles would suit our design best.

We then looked at some granite worktops; I didn’t know there were over 20 different granite styles so we took some samples to compare to our existing kitchen accessories. Being stupid, I only took some simple measurements of the kitchen before we came out so we couldn’t get quote; I will be measuring all the cupboards and worktops this week and we will go back at the weekend.