A Guide To Measuring Your Own Kitchen

A successful kitchen installation begins with accurate measurements of your kitchen space.

Usually your kitchen provider or installer will undertake this for you. However, to speed up getting a quote, you may opt to sketch a floor plan and measure the kitchen yourself in order to get a draft design and outline costs for your new cabinetry.

The designer or kitchen fitter would visit and check your measurements before finalising your purchase and ordering the kitchen from the manufacturer so don’t worry about your initial attempt.

You will need the following to measure your kitchen;

  • A sheet of plain or graph paper
  • A tape measure, the longer tape the easier it will be to measure the room
  • A pen or pencil
  • If your kitchen is large an assistant would be useful

Step 1.

Begin by drawing an outline shape of your kitchen, it does not have to be to scale but some will feel more comfortable scaling the drawing.

Include doors, indicating which way they open, widows and any other fixture unique to your kitchen.

creating a floorplan to measure your kitchen

Step 2.

Depending on the shape of your kitchen choose a corner or starting point and systematically work your way around the room until you are back where you started.

Be as accurate as you can and record the measurements of each wall or section of wall, doors including the architrave in millimetres.

It’s a good idea to measure both whole wall lengths and each component part of the wall. This can provide a useful check – added together the component part measurements should equal the whole wall length, if not you have made an error so go back and remeasure and adjust as necessary.

If your the bottom of your widows are above your existing worktop there is no need to measure their height, the width will suffice. Door height is not usually a requirement either.

Kitchen floorplan with measurements

Step 3.

Lastly you will need to mark the position of fixtures like your water rising main, radiators, boiler etc.

You may find it easier to do this using an elevation but, as stated previously, if your purpose is to obtain a draft kitchen design and indicative cost then exact measurements for these are not needed. Your kitchen installer will check your measurements on a site visit and ensure they have they exact position of each of these at that point.

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