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