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Putting more time into your favorite hobbies or being with your family are a couple of things that you can look forward to as a result of reducing upkeep demands inside your house. If you know that you spend a lot of cleaning the kitchen because you cook homemade meals on a regular basis, you may want to hire remodeling professionals to add or replace features with the goal of reducing your upkeep needs.

All it takes is a single upgrade to spend less time maintaining the kitchen. But, you will find it most beneficial to know about various projects that you can take on to make a difference.

Countertop

While it depends on what kind of countertop you have in the kitchen, you will find that replacing yours with a granite or quartz one can produce excellent results. These countertops handle heat well so that you do not have to worry about pots and pans causing damage. Also, they are resilient, easy to clean, and do not have grout, grooves, or indents that crumbs can get stuck in.

Painting

If you find that your kitchen's cabinets and walls are picking up more dirt and grime than you would like, you may want to paint these surfaces with a glossier finish. While it may not reduce how much dirt gets on them, you will have a much easier time cleaning them thoroughly.

Another option is to choose dark colors for these surfaces since light colors make almost any speck visible while dirt and grime will blend into dark walls a little more. Instead of feeling like you need to clean the walls after anything gets on them, you can just stick to a normal cleaning schedule as darker colors will keep your kitchen looking clean and attractive almost all the time.

Appliances

The appliances in your kitchen are likely to get quite dirty, especially when your family uses the kitchen all throughout the day. For the most part, you may notice that the refrigerator gets the dirtiest due to how much it is used. However, you may want to replace them all with smudge-proof appliances so that your family's fingerprints will not show up at all.

This is also the perfect time to swap over to a flat cooktop surface so that you do not have to try cleaning in between grates or removing them for a deep cleaning.

Reducing kitchen upkeep is easily doable when you take on these kitchen remodeling projects.