Room Outline

You must first measure your kitchen accurately in order to draw a room outline. By drawing your room outline, you can start to see some of the options available for your floor plan. You should take your room outline, measurements, and floor plan ideas to a professional Kitchen Designer so that he or she can enhance your ideas and prepare a preliminary estimate for cabinetry.

If you have purchased our Personal Project Organizer, you will find graph paper, scale, cut-n-paste kitchen symbols, and directions on how-to measure your kitchen. If not, there are other links to help you draw a room outline and create a kitchen floor plan. KitchenQuest.com has a "Measuring Guide" that will have you "measuring like a pro" or you can link to Homestore.com's "Kitchen Planning: Put it on Paper".

If you prefer to let someone else measure the outline and create the floor plan, hire a Kitchen Designer by contacting a local kitchen cabinet showroom, the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) (800) 843-6522, or link to ImproveNet.com. If you don't mind taking the original measurements, but want on-line assistance with the floor plan, link to KitchenQuest.com, a fee-based design service. In order to proceed with their Design Quest Program, you must then follow their procedures and questionnaires.