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. 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.

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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. We grossly underestimate the number of components there are in a house that all have to work together, if anything is done poorly it can compromise the entire home, or aspects of the home. Houses are made from all sorts of different supplies, wood, brick, steel, concrete and more. On Well Built Home we mainly focus on wood framed homes. Houses in our area are expensive, yet we spend more time looking into the brand of our phones and gadgets than we do our own homes. Some first steps when buying a home are to see if you can find out who built your home and check into the history of it. This can be as easy as a google search, or can take some time phoning around, going to the city to look for who applied for a building permit etc… if you have a good realtor they should be well connected in the area and in most cases should be able to figure out who built the house. 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 are 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!
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 goal is to teach you what to look for. Because you only get what you pay for, if you get what to look for.
This series was created by Stephan Kingma, one of the owners of “Monarch Developments” and his little sister “Andrea Bravo.” Stephan Kingma is a builder in Chilliwack and Andrea Bravo is a realtor in Chilliwack and Abbotsford. Stephan and Andrea’s family have been building in Chilliwack and other areas of the Fraser valley for over 40 years and have a great reputation. The Kingma family are known for being one of the best Chilliwack builders.
www.mymonarch.ca
www.andreabravo.ca