First Meeting Checklist

What To Expect

• Discussing the Budget
  • What’s the home’s value
  • Creating your “forever” home (invest 10% of home’s value)
  • Sprucing up for resale (spend no more than 5% of home’s value)
• Design Style
  • Traditional
  • Modern
  • Contemporary
  • Transitional
• Likes and dislikes of current space
• Dreams for new kitchen or bath
• How is the new kitchen or bath to be used
  • Infrequently
  • Day in and day out
  • Multiple users
• Appliances
  • Will you be using existing ones; or
  • Buying new ones? If so, then have they been selected
• How does your kitchen or bath relate to adjacent spaces
  • Is the kitchen part of a great room
  • Is it walled off from the living room and formal dining space
  • Adjacent to family room or breakfast nook? Can you combine spaces
  • Is the bathroom in public areas of the home
• Construction restraints
• Decision makers
  • Interior designer
  • Architect
  • Other key person

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