Paralysis by Tile Sample
How do you pick a backsplash when 40 whites are sitting on the counter, and every one of them looks basically the same?
And how do you know the cabinet color you liked under showroom lights will still look right in your own kitchen?
Find out how 7 Day Kitchens helps you confidently choose the right finishes for your kitchen in a timely manner.
How to Choose Kitchen Finishes without Getting Overwhelmed
The best way to choose kitchen finishes is to:
- Work with an experienced in-house interior designer who builds a curated list around your vision.
- Get walked through a showroom office so you can see and handle the actual materials.
- See everything assembled in a 3D rendering of your own kitchen instead of imagining it from samples.
- Rework the design and the selections until they are exactly what you want, before anything is ordered.
Why So Many Homeowners Freeze on Finish Decisions
2 main things stall kitchen design decisions:
- You’re overwhelmed with options.
- You’re afraid of making the wrong choice.
The solution is to work with a remodeler who has an in-house team that will walk with you through each choice, so you can be confident in your selections.
Too Many Options
When there are too many options, it overloads your brain and causes paralysis by analysis.
This happens when you’re looking at an open catalog that lists every available choice.
We don’t work that way.
Michelle, our in-house interior designer, sits down with you in your own kitchen, listens to how you use the room and what you are drawn to, and then puts together a curated set of selections based on that conversation.
Fear of Making the Wrong Choice
If you choose a material or finish that you end up hating, that’s money wasted on a kitchen you can’t stand to look at.
We help you with this in several ways.
You come into our interior designer’s showroom office and handle our products, allowing you to get a real feel for them instead of guessing from a photo.
Then you see every selection assembled in a full 3D rendering of your own kitchen. What you see here is exactly what you’ll see in your home.
We also allow free revisions to your rendering and plans so you can tweak it until you see the kitchen you want.
What else do we do to avoid remodeling delays?
How an In-House Designer Narrows the Choices to Fit Your Home
This is where Michelle plays a starring role.
She can build curated lists of selections from talking with you because she has hundreds of projects supplying her experience and knowledge.
Michelle knows Truemade Shaker White cabinets hold up next to KCD Brooklyn Fawn island cabinets, that Calacatta Idillio quartz works under a Zellige Pearl Opal backsplash, and how far up the wall tile should run before the wall starts looking too busy.
She also knows all the materials and finishes because she’s the one who stocks her showroom office.
That is the knowledge you are borrowing when she hands you a curated list instead of an open catalog.
She also doesn’t disappear after the design is done.
She stays on your project from that first meeting through the installation to make sure everything meets the design you chose.
How 3D Renderings Let You See a Selection Before You Commit
A rendering puts every finish you picked into a model of your actual room, at real scale, next to every other finish.
You review full 3D renderings, layouts, elevations, and finish plans together with Michelle.
This lets you know how everything actually looks instead of trying to picture it in your head and hoping for the best.
In our kitchen and laundry room remodel in Waxhaw, the renderings showed Shelly and Tommy exactly how the Oatmeal White cabinetry, quartz countertops, and matte white brick backsplash would carry from the kitchen through the pantry and into the laundry room.
What a Guided Selection Process Feels Like from Start to Finish
Selections happen across 4 steps, and the whole thing runs inside our 4- to 6-week planning phase.
- Discovery. This happens in your home. Your sales rep introduces you to Michelle and to Michael. You cover how you use the kitchen, what you love and don’t love about the current layout, what aesthetic you’re drawn to, your must-haves and priorities. We take detailed measurements, photos, and videos, then schedule your Design Meeting.
- Design Meeting. We focus on layout options and flow first. Then cabinet styles, finishes, hardware, countertops, backsplash, flooring, and lighting. Appliance placement gets planned here too, and you walk through the first plan drawings.
- Planning. Design development continues from that meeting. Michael, Michelle, and you iterate on the renderings and plans to finalize the layout and adjust selections to dial in budget and priorities.
- Final Approval. We present the full specification package and final pricing. You sign off on all selections: cabinets, finishes, fixtures, appliances. We issue your fixed-price contract.
We don’t push you to sign off on anything before you’re ready, because a rushed selection leads to a kitchen you don’t love.
What all happens before the installation starts?
Stop Staring at Tile Samples and Call 7 Day Kitchens
Picking finishes gets easier when you’re choosing from a list curated to match your vision, when you can put your hands on the real materials, and when you can see everything together before you commit to any of it.
Fill out our contact form or call us to start designing your new kitchen.
