Most people will plan or renovate a kitchen sometime in their life. UKMA offers you some useful tips to help you plan your kitchen. Even if you are not planning to design and build your kitchen, some of the following tips will help prepare you for a discussion with a professional kitchen planner.

In the following section we mainly make use of centimetre measures. This is because most metric tape measures use centimetres and because many kitchen dimensions are usually expressed using cm. You might prefer to work in millimetres or metres but part of the versatility of the metric system is the ability to convert using factors of 10 or 100.