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Contact us about a kitchen renovation in Oakleigh
The useful first message is rarely a long one. A few photographs of the room as it stands, a rough wall-to-wall dimension and a sentence about what stops working in there is enough to begin a sensible conversation about scope.
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What an enquiry can cover
Most conversations start in one of three places: a whole room being rebuilt, a layout that needs resolving on paper first, or joinery being made to fit an awkward space.
WHERE
Areas we work in
BEFORE YOU WRITE
Worth having to hand
None of it has to be exact. Approximate figures are enough to tell whether a room needs a full rebuild or a narrower scope of work.
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What happens after you get in touch
These are the first four of the thirteen stages a kitchen runs through. Nothing is demolished, ordered or priced until the third and fourth are settled.
A conversation about how the room is used now — who cooks, where the traffic runs, what gets stacked on the bench because it has nowhere else to live.02 Measure
An on-site measure of the actual room: walls out of square, service locations, floor level, window reveals and the width of every door the cabinetry has to pass through.03 Design
Layout, zoning and clearances resolved on paper, module by module, with the appliances fixed before a single cabinet width is decided.04 Quote
A scope written against that drawing, so what is included and what is excluded can both be read rather than assumed.
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What the first measure actually involves
Older Oakleigh houses are rarely square, and unit kitchens rarely have the clearances their plans claim. A measure records the room as it is: two diagonals across the floor, heights taken at both ends of every run, the position of waste, gas and power, and the awkward bulkhead nobody mentions until the cabinetry arrives.
Those figures are what a design is drawn against and what a benchtop is later templated from. Everything downstream — module widths, drawer sizes, island overhang, splashback height — is decided by that one set of numbers, which is why it happens before pricing rather than after it.
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Send an enquiry
The form asks for your name, email and phone, the suburb the kitchen is in, a subject line, a budget range and a timeframe, then leaves the message open. The last three are the ones worth spending a minute on — budget and timeframe decide scope more than taste does.
Photographs cannot be attached here. Describe the room in the message instead — its shape, roughly how long each run of bench is, and what you would change first — and images can follow once we are talking.
IF YOU ARE STILL DECIDING
Read first, enquire later — that order works too
Which decisions move the number — scope, cabinetry construction, benchtop material and how much service work sits behind the wall.How long a kitchen renovation takes
Why the program is a sequence rather than a number, and which links in the chain cannot be shortened.Kitchen guides
Benchtops, splashbacks, islands, storage and layout planning, written the way the decisions are actually made on site.