You do not plan a kitchen twice. It stays for fifteen, often twenty years — and in that time it forgives not a single centimetre that was thought through wrongly at the start. That is exactly why the order matters more than the speed.
This guide describes the path we walk with every customer at My Konfor Küche: from the first idea to the moment the installation is signed off. Ten steps, in the order in which they actually arise.
1. Clarify your needs: how do you really cook?
Before any drawing comes an honest stocktake. Do you cook fresh every day, or more at the weekend? Are there two of you or five? Is your kitchen a place where people eat, work, do homework?
These answers decide more about the layout than any catalogue. A kitchen that is perfect for one household can be unusable for the next — same fronts, same appliances, completely different result.
2. Set a budget — before you fall in love
Set a realistic framework early. Not to restrict yourself, but to sharpen the choice: whoever knows the framework decides faster and regrets less often.
Think about the whole package, not just the furniture. Appliances, worktop, sink, tap, lighting, delivery and installation all belong to it. Finance with a term of up to 36 months is possible with us — that too can be worked through during the consultation.
3. Measure the room
A rough sketch is enough for the first appointment: length and width of the room, ceiling height, position of windows and doors. The connections also matter — water, waste, three-phase power, gas, ventilation. Note the radiators, sloping ceilings and recesses as well.
One phone photo per wall helps us more than most customers assume. The exact measuring comes later (step 8) — for now it is only about being able to plan at all.
4. Choose the kitchen layout
The layout follows almost by itself from the room and how it is used:
- Single-run — for narrow rooms and walk-through kitchens.
- Galley — plenty of work surface on a small footprint, needs aisle width.
- L-shape — the classic, works in almost any floor plan.
- U-shape — maximum storage, ideal from a medium-sized room upwards.
- Island kitchen — open-plan living, cooking at the centre. Needs space and well-thought-out connections.
The layout is not a matter of taste alone. It determines the walking routes, and the walking routes determine whether a kitchen is easy or laborious in everyday life.
5. Planning in the showroom: measurements become a design
Now numbers turn into a room. At our showroom in Düsseldorf we go through your sketch, discuss fronts, handles, worktop and lighting — and you see and touch what you are deciding about. Between a decor on a screen and the same front under showroom lighting lie worlds.
Every kitchen is planned individually with us, not assembled from a standard package. That is the difference between a kitchen that fits into the room and one that was made for it.
6. Choose materials and appliances
This is where it is decided how the kitchen will age. A few points that make the difference in everyday use:
- Worktop — ceramic and quartz are hard and easy to care for, wood is warm and wants looking after.
- Fronts — matt surfaces show fewer fingerprints, high gloss looks larger and brighter.
- Pull-outs — full-extension runners with soft close are the investment you notice daily.
- Appliances — energy class and noise level are worth a second look, especially in open-plan rooms.
7. Check the quote
A good quote is complete and easy to follow. Check that everything is listed: furniture, appliances, worktop, sink and tap, lighting, plinths and panels, delivery, installation and the disposal of the old kitchen. Also clarify the delivery date, the payment schedule and the guarantees.
Do not compare quotes on the final sum alone. Two prices only become comparable when the same scope of work sits behind them.
8. Professional measuring
Before ordering comes the exact measuring at your home — to the millimetre, including wall runs, sloping ceilings and the positions of connections. Walls are rarely straight, and it is precisely these deviations that decide whether joints close cleanly later on.
Only after the measuring does the kitchen go into production. This step is never skipped with us — it is the reason why nothing has to be improvised on installation day.
9. Prepare the room
Before installation the room must be clear: old kitchen dismantled and disposed of, electrical and plumbing work finished, walls and floor completed. If a tiled splashback or decorating is planned, it belongs in this window.
Build in some buffer here. Most delays do not arise with the kitchen, but with the trades that come before it.
10. Installation and handover
Our own team carries out the installation. Depending on the size it takes one to three days; appliances are connected, worktop and joints are set, doors and pull-outs are adjusted.
At the end comes the joint handover: you walk through with us, open every door, check every function. Anything that is not right is noted and put right. Consultation, measuring and installation come from one source with us — there is no interface at which responsibility gets lost.
How long does the whole thing take?
From the first consultation to the finished kitchen usually takes several weeks to a few months. The largest part of that is not the planning, but the delivery time of the chosen fronts and appliances. Anyone with a fixed date in mind — a move, a handover, the end of a renovation — should therefore start early.
Your next step
Getting started is straightforward: you describe your project to us in three short steps, we get in touch and agree an appointment — at the showroom in Düsseldorf, at your home for the measuring, or online for a first introduction. The planning is free and without obligation.
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