We recently renovated our kitchen. We thought it would be simple because there weren't any existing cabinets and we weren't moving any walls, but boy were we wrong! One thing that did help out a lot though was our data visualization tool, Google Sketchup. Sketchup is a beautiful and free-to-use tool and after spending a solid weekend with it, maybe 20hrs, I had a great model that my wife and I used to tweak our design. We uncovered many flaws in our initial ideas that just wouldn't look good or wouldn't even work. Google Sketchup was invaluable and saved us many troubles and hassles. It also helped us to negotiate with and explain our design to contractors, prior to them bidding.
Here are a few renderings of our final model:
Once we created this model, ordering cabinets was a snap because most of the details and dimensions were already figured out. We worked with somebody from Lowe's who offered some great suggestions; for instance he suggested swapping the fridge and the pantry so that the fridge would be easy to load and unload next to the counter. He also knew much more about cabinet door clearances and spacing than I.
It wasn't so easy to take pictures of the final work because you can't do a cut-away or an overhead shot, but here are some photos. I'll let you decide for yourself how close we were to the model, but we are very happy with the results:
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