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Measuring Your Kitchen Space and Planning the Layout

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How to measure your extension kitchen accurately, plan a layout that works for real cooking, and produce the drawing your electrician and plumber need before first fix.

Intermediate£0-2001-2 hours

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Get the kitchen layout wrong and your electrician wires sockets in the wrong places. Your plumber routes pipes to a wall that ends up as a window. Your pendant lights hang 150mm off-centre because someone measured the island position from an unplastered wall. Every one of those mistakes costs real money to fix, and every one is avoidable with two hours of careful work before first fix begins.

This guide covers what to measure, when to measure it, how to turn those measurements into a layout your trades can actually work from, and the dimensions that matter when planning where everything goes.

You should have already decided whether you're using a kitchen design company or self-sourcing. If you're using a showroom's design service, they'll handle measuring and layout for you. This guide is for everyone else, and for anyone who wants to check the showroom's work before their electrician starts drilling.

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