Kitchen Secret #5: kitchen budget | Should you tell your designer your kitchen budget?
Should you tell your designer your kitchen budget? So how much do want to spend on your kitchen? Should you tell your designer exactly how much you want to spend? If you do, does that mean that you’ll be throwing some of your hard-earned money down a ‘black hole’? Obviously, unless you’ve got more money than sense, you don’t want to pay over the odds for your kitchen... However, looking at it from the designer’s perspective, he knows that if the price isn’t ‘right’, you won’t buy the kitchen. Looking at it from his point of view, what’s the point in spending a few hours designing a luxury kitchen for you if you’re just going to sit back and laugh when the price is presented? From some designer’s perspective, there’s no point in continuing to design you a kitchen if you won’t agree to a budget for the project. The problem is, is that from the customer’s perspective there is a conflict of interest here. Looking at it from a customer’s viewpoint, the designer might just have ‘dollar signs
