We gutted ours about two years ago, final cost with appliances we bought ourselves was about $38K. That was down to the studs/subfloor, rearranging plumbing, and removing a wall where the breakfast bar is now. It took a few days more than three weeks.
ETA: we used a general contractor, but picked all the materials/finishes ourselves. He had all his own people, no subs, and wasn't the most expensive GC we got quotes from.
It was $40k for us to do just new cabinets and countertops about 4 years ago in a medium sized condo kitchen, HCOL. No new floors or appliances, but did include new lighting and tile backsplash. We used a GC, which I would highly recommend. There are a lot of moving pieces - even With our limited work, we still needed to coordinate with cabinet installers, countertop fabricators and installers, electrician, plumber, tile installer. Took about 6 weeks.
We are planning on a larger scale remodel in our new house, which will involve moving walls and plumbing, and I am expecting $200k, and will definitely use a GC - and an interior designer - again. I think we will likely also need to move into a rental house for a few months.
I think we paid mid 50s and it took forever, like 4 months. We completely gutted, took a wall down, plumbing, gas line, lighting, basically anything you can think of. Our contractor did everything himself and was slow, but it was worth it in the end.
We’re only replacing floors, counters and backsplash and it’s still costing me $12k. ☹️
We had our cabinets resurfaced and painted, replaced appliances and lighting, got new counters and backsplash and sink/faucet. We spent less than that, however...we did a lot ourselves. And it shows, lol. My backsplash looks great from afar, but if anyone looks at it closely it is a disaster.
We got our appliances during a black friday sale and our counters were on sale as well.
We had a friend do our cabinets so we saved more than 50% there, my father in law is an electrician and my husband is pretty handy so he does the plumbing stuff for the new sink, as well as removing the old counters. We do have a contractor coming to install the new counters in a couple of weeks.
All told, because we did this in chunks and with connections/by ourselves, we spent probably 6K for a pretty large kitchen, but nothing is super high end.
Post by amandakisser on Aug 10, 2020 13:12:41 GMT -5
We are in the middle of ours, and it's a bit different than most here because it's an insurance job so everything pretty much HAS to be done within this budget unless we decide to upgrade (which we did - we purchased all new appliances out of pocket and those cost us about $8K for a new double oven, warming drawer, pull-out cabinet microwave and fridge). Our plumbing and electrical is getting fully replaced, moving the location of our sink and other appliances, new lighting, quartz countertops, replacing all of the hardwoods in the kitchen AND living room, and all custom cabinets. Insurance gave us $42k for all of that. We are on month six, but all work stopped for a while due to COVID. I'm hoping to be complete by the end of the month.
Ours isn't a full "After" since we don't have appliances yet, and still have some finishing to do (missing a damaged cabinet door and pendant, still need to paint). But it's still pretty dramatic.
jinkies , would you mind sharing a picture of the wall where your fridge is? You kitchen looks very similar to mine in shape, right down to the peninsula and my fridge is in the same spot. I'm trying to decide what to do with the cabinets on this wall when we remodel so I'm always looking for ideas.
janegold, that kitchen/condo is gorgeous. Seriously, looks like it's right out of a designer magazine.
Post by litskispeciality on Aug 13, 2020 10:54:56 GMT -5
Wow ya'll have some beautiful kitchens.
Semi-related, I was posting in randoms that we still have old (white) appliances that I have a hard time replacing if they still work. Has anyone replaced stove, dishwasher, fridge etc. before remodeling a kitchen? We hope to do a home reno in 2020 , but I don't know if it'll be a kitchen or bathroom since kitchens are apparently double or triple a bathroom. Did you later remodel the kitchen around the new appliances, or did you have to buy more again?
Semi-related, I was posting in randoms that we still have old (white) appliances that I have a hard time replacing if they still work. Has anyone replaced stove, dishwasher, fridge etc. before remodeling a kitchen? We hope to do a home reno in 2020 , but I don't know if it'll be a kitchen or bathroom since kitchens are apparently double or triple a bathroom. Did you later remodel the kitchen around the new appliances, or did you have to buy more again?
We haven't remodeled yet (obviously since I'm the OP lol), but we bought the house with black appliances. We've replaced our fridge and microwave with stainless and they died. We don't plan to replace if we redo the kitchen. The only appliance we would replace with a remodel is the stove because I want to go from free-standing to either a cooktop or slide-in stove.
I think in most houses the big one you may want to replace with a remodel is the stove/oven. Otherwise I think it's fine to keep the old ones.
Semi-related, I was posting in randoms that we still have old (white) appliances that I have a hard time replacing if they still work. Has anyone replaced stove, dishwasher, fridge etc. before remodeling a kitchen? We hope to do a home reno in 2020 , but I don't know if it'll be a kitchen or bathroom since kitchens are apparently double or triple a bathroom. Did you later remodel the kitchen around the new appliances, or did you have to buy more again?
We limped our appliances along for years before our remodel. Our newest appliance is an 8 year old fridge. My H is having a hard time with the idea of replacing it since the new one is almost exactly the same, just stainless instead of white. All of our other appliances were 20+ years old, so non-issue with replacing.
If you think the new reno would significantly change the size/shape of your appliances, I would try to hold off buying now. (Like if you know you want double wall ovens and a separate range in a Reno, I would not buy a standard 30 inch stove right now.
Post by litskispeciality on Aug 13, 2020 11:55:08 GMT -5
icedcoffee, the stove is actually DH's point of contention. Technically it works, but doesn't seem that efficient. Seems like it takes a super long time to heat up and the buttons on the oven don't work that great either. We looked in to replacing them, and it's like half the price of a new stove. He wants to start small, replace what would be more efficient, I just don't want mis-matching since we're not even big cooks anyway. I don't think we're going to get a different (wall) stove in a remodel, I don't know if we'd even have space for it.
I know you *can* save money once you buy a more energy efficient machine (we're slowly seeing a little back from replacing the water heater and boiler), but for how much you pay it'll take a year+ to get it back in savings. That and new stuff isn't made to last. I know so many people who've bought stainless steel just to have it die after a couple of years. Our friendsd lost theirs after their first baby was born, lost all of the food people donated
icedcoffee , the stove is actually DH's point of contention. Technically it works, but doesn't seem that efficient. Seems like it takes a super long time to heat up and the buttons on the oven don't work that great either. We looked in to replacing them, and it's like half the price of a new stove. He wants to start small, replace what would be more efficient, I just don't want mis-matching since we're not even big cooks anyway. I don't think we're going to get a different (wall) stove in a remodel, I don't know if we'd even have space for it.
I know you *can* save money once you buy a more energy efficient machine (we're slowly seeing a little back from replacing the water heater and boiler), but for how much you pay it'll take a year+ to get it back in savings. That and new stuff isn't made to last. I know so many people who've bought stainless steel just to have it die after a couple of years. Our friendsd lost theirs after their first baby was born, lost all of the food people donated
New appliances definitely don't last like the old ones did. We are "replace when it dies" type of people. I can't imagine replacing appliances just to make them all match or whatever.
If you hate your stove and it's dying then I'd go ahead and replace.
We currently have half black and half stainless though so I might not be the best one to advise. LOL
Our kitchen is 12'x12' and we gutted it 3 years ago. We hired a design & build company that had experience working on old houses; they did the majority of the work with their crew and then subbed out the hardwood floor install and the plumbing. Including appliances, it was $65K and took 2 1/2 months.