Best Kitchen Layouts! Don’t regret it after you move in!

How we recommend you walk through a kitchen – Don’t regret it after you move in.

Check the kitchen lay out carefully, pull out drawers, open everything, use it as if you live there!

On this episode of “well Built Home” we’re teaching you how to walk through a kitchen properly. How can you know that it will work well after you move in? What makes up a good kitchen layout and makes a kitchen more functional. This Series called “Well-Built Home” was created by Stephan Kingma and his little sister “Andrea Bravo”. Stephan Kingma is a builder in Chilliwack and owns a company called “Monarch Developments” and Andrea Bravo is Realtor in Chilliwack and Abbotsford. They have one goal – to teach you what to look for! Look for enough room when you open up the fridge, stove, microwave and dishwasher. Look for counterspace around your stove and sink. It’s important to have your dishwasher right by your sink so your dishes don’t drip all over the floor after you rinse them, do you want the sink by the window, or in the island? These are all important to notice when walking through a kitchen.

Check out mymonarch.ca or andreabravo.ca to see all of our videos and learn how to tell if a house is built well. We are not all contractors, home builders and real estate specialists, most of us don’t know the first thing about home construction, materials, processes and practices! Yet most of us end up wanting to buy a home in our lifetime. So when it comes to buying a house, this show will teach you how to tell if a house is built well. Find out who built the home! Once you know who built the home you can check into that builder, find out who they are, what their reputation is, talk to some previous buyers in the area and so on. Many contractors are professionals and really good at what they do, others are either inexperienced and/or willing to cut corners to get the house done quickly and make a sale. Very few builders are actually corrupt; generally they just aren’t that experienced and simply don’t know all the best practices. Well Built Home will teach you to spot the signs of a “Well-built Home” and Run from poorly built homes!

Look at the house carefully. Houses are complicated things, don’t just look at the fixtures, quartz countertops, cabinets, flooring etc… make sure the walls and floors are level and square, check the foundational walls and other unfinished areas of the home for potential warning signs of a poorly built home. Some of these problems are easy to cover up for builders, but other warning signs will be there. List of problems in a poorly built home can be endless, so know what to look for. The goal of buying a “Well-Built home” is to buy something that will last a very long time and have good re-sale value when you choose to sell your home. It is important to spot the signs of a well built home and know how to do that before you head out to look for one. In this series we talk about residential construction and new home construction, though you can apply a lot of this to an older home as well. “Stephan Kingma” owns a company called “Monarch Developments”, he is a “Chilliwack Builder” and lives in Chilliwack. Stephan has been building for over 20 years, he also does large scale renovations and is a sought after expert in the trades.

Monarch Developments is rated one of the top three builders in Chilliwack, Monarch Developments builds high end spec homes . Monarch Developments builds their spec homes as though they are custom homes and takes great pride in the quality of their work. Monarch Developments has created the “Well-Built Home” Series alongside their realtor “Andrea Bravo” as a way to teach average people who don’t know anything about construction to spot the signs of a well built home, and hopefully avoid a housing horror story or a housing nightmare. Andrea Bravo is Stephan’s little sister and is a Realtor in Abbotsford and Chilliwack. She created the series “Well Built Home” with her brother Stephan to teach the average person how to walk through a home, and what to look for when buying a home. She grew tired of people buying homes based on pretty fixtures and quartz countertops. Andrea Bravo loves selling Real Estate and is a realtor in Chilliwack and Abbotsford. Our who goal is to teach you what to look for. Because you only get what you pay for, if you get what to look for.