Have you been mulling a kitchen remodel for a while and getting ready to dive in? That simmering process can linger and linger because taking the next steps to jump into a big project can be incredibly overwhelming. Once you’ve spent hours poring through design magazines, marking pages; trolling online pictures, bookmarking your favorites; wandering through your local home improvement store, collecting flyers, chances are you’ll look at what you’ve collected and find no coherent theme or magical moment where you know that THIS particular photo is exactly what you want your kitchen to look like.

If this sounds like you, check out houzz.com for more inspiration but, more importantly, tips for those next steps that can be so difficult to make. They can help you decide if your project can be a DIY or if you need to find a pro. And if you do you need to find a contractor how to go about that process. Knowing the steps and taking those steps one at a time will help make your project go as smoothly (and on budget) as possible.