MintLife’s 8 Tips to Update Your Kitchen on a Budget

Your kitchen is the most utilized room in your home, a place where families and friends gather for daily meals and holiday celebrations. The kitchen space, now more than ever, serves as a central gathering point and an extension of living and family rooms, the so-called great rooms.

According to the Zillow Digs Home Design Trend Report for 2014, kitchens top the list of spaces homeowners plan to remodel in 2014. When making the investment in updating your kitchen, the key is to focus on what you will enjoy most and also appeal to future homebuyers.

MintLife offers 8 tips to help update your kitchen on a budget, including commentary from Renovation Realty’s interior design expert Michelle Sanchez.

Recommended tips include:

1. Develop a realistic budget.
2. Consider utility.
3. Upgrade appliances.
4. Go big. On tile, anyway.
5. Hunt for bargains.
6. Refinish.
7. Go slow.
8. Use credit card bonuses – wisely.

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