cost to re-do your home kitchen?

[concretejungle]

I was trying to get a feel for what you in the know who actually have done this feel is a good estimate ($/square foot maybe) for totally renovating a kitchen. The kitchen in question basically needs new cabinets, countertops, sink, dishwasher, paint. Flooring is allready pretty good and probably will wait on that. Also, we are thinking of taking out about 8 feet worth of wall to open kitchen into dining room.

Clients are not thinking of totally top of the line granite tops and stainless appliances, but decent stuff.

I remember seeing one of those tv shows....flip this house....something like that and a comment was made by a REALTOR that an average kitchen renovation was about $25,000. I thought now frickin way, maybe a house off rodeo drive or something. I was thinking you could have one done for around $7,000.

Comments, critiques and cautions are appreciated.

 

[stanley]

if you did ALL the work yourself, i think $7000 is possible for an average run-of-the-mill kitchen.

 

[osagecruiser]

depending on the size of the kitchen you could spend 7000.00 on cabinets and countertops...not top of the line...hard to square foot a kitchen...to many unknowns

osagecruiser

 

[concretejungle]

Let's say the kitchen is approximatly 10' x 8'. It's a small pass-thru type kitchen.That's part of the reason they want to knock the wall out and help open the kitchen up.

 

[reffug]

REDO no clue.

However the house we just finished building.

Kitchen alone set us back some serious $$$$.

Figure 7K in appliances, 2K in flooring, 4K in countertops, and another 5K in cabinets.

Kitchen is a definate spot to drop some coin though, you will get it back in resale and if you like to cook then its priceless.

 

[White Shark]

$7,000 for a DIY average.

$15,000 includes nice cabinets / appliances.

$20,000 will get you great cabinets, appliances, and a nice countertop


Now, if you want to pay someone to install everything for you, add another $10,000 - $25,000. It's a lot of work.

 

[jjbodean1970]

$7000 easy just for cabinets, not including the granite countertops, appliances, etc

 

[osagecruiser]

knock out a wall?...bearing wall?..require additional support to allow the opening..mechanicals in the wall to be knocked out?...cost to relocate if so...just some things to consider...

good luck
osagecruiser

 

[74fjsemistock]

This is what I do.When you take out that wall either load bearing or demising,you WILL be thinking about flooring.Ball park blind estimate is close to 50k.Thats turn key.The appliances alone$$$$.Electrical.Changing the layout i.e.gas line relocation.220 drop.oh heck,lets do a downdraft system.Granite slabs another 7k.I do high end.PM me and you can pick my brain.I've only done remodels for 30+ years so I do know a thing or two about a thing or two.

 

[JRFJ4-]

Depends

We did ours two years ago. New stainless appliances, new tile, new granite countertops, only one new cabinet built.

There is no way to know how much. A good Elkay sink with a Moen faucet will cost around $1000.00 as me how I know.

We did all the tile work but still spent about $14k. We had the cabinet built and the countertops done, but did everything else ourselves. It all adds up in a hurry.

You can spend as much as you want. Handmade mexican tiles, industrial appliances, full granite backsplash.


JR

 

[jjbodean1970]

We did ours two years ago. New stainless appliances, new tile, new granite countertops, only one new cabinet built.

There is no way to know how much. A good Elkay sink with a Moen faucet will cost around $1000.00 as me how I know.

We did all the tile work but still spent about $14k. We had the cabinet built and the countertops done, but did everything else ourselves. It all adds up in a hurry.

You can spend as much as you want. Handmade mexican tiles, industrial appliances, full granite backsplash.


JR

nice looking job, plus the knowledge that you did it all yourself!

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

$7000 = Ikea

 

[fsusteve]

$15k, just ordered my cabinets and appliances, not sure of the direction on countertop yet. I'm doing the work so I put more into the materials.

 

[nilepoc]

I spent about 13,000 on my kitchen (all materials purchased from Home Depot, or Home Expo) and all work done by myself, except for the counter installation (Sile stone won't warrantee the counter unless it is professionally installed). We moved the kitchen from one room to another that was larger, which meant that all the electric (This required a main panel upgrade as well, to meet the code requirement for number of circuits required in the kitchen BTW this lead to me putting the kitchen on hold and just rewiring the whole dam house, there were exposed bare wires in the walls. I did not include that cost in the above figure.), gas, and plumbing needed to be moved as well. We also dealt with a structural defect in the 90 year old floor beams which required some creative bracing in the basement. All told it took me the better part of a year to do this. I guess I was getting myself ready for a FJ40 build up (which starts after we finish adding a second floor).

Old Kitchen note, this is all the PO's crap. Note the custom cardboard window pane. I found that he was real handy and all of his modifications were scraped.

Empty room next to old kitchen note, this is all the PO's crap.

Same view as above, but with the kitchen almost done.

This is the view in the other direction, the kitchen used to be in the room you see through the doorway.

I had a great time doing it, and friends of mine who are contractors say they would have chaged about 28-30,000 to do the same job.

Good luck.

 

[NW-sickboy]

In the middle of doing mine.... just did 450 square feet of granit counter tops, kept the old vintage cabinets, and just ordered 4000 dollars in hardwood floors.... will doo new stove and dishwasher next year, planon being around 9K into it when its all said and done.... had to have a bit of help with plumbing but i found a guy who would let me observerve and help....

will have to contract out some electrical but paint, floors, some tile, took out a wall to open things up all done myself...

 

[ScottFJ40]

We are building an entire new house. I bargains shopped and did my research. I bought appliances today. I got the fridge, range, over range microwave, and dishwasher for $3500 through a friends brother's kitchen store.

I have maybe $5K in silestone countertops. Not sure on the cabinets, as they came with the new house.

IF you look at review sites, you can then shop around and play the home centers against each other, they will negotiate. We were going to go stainless, but my wife is an interior designer and the word in that world is stainless is done. We got black appliances.
Silestone or granite was a must for us, you might make do with corian and save a few bucks.

 

[concretejungle]

All great info. Thanks a ton guys.

This question was actually targeted for me to learn but also to help me answer a client i just sold a house to. THe house is an older one that is in a super great location. It just needs a new kitchen to really bring out the potential. I did some walking around Lowes and Home Depot today to price counter tops and cabinets.

But this will come in handy in January when i purchase a townhome that needs an updated kitchen and then would be a great flipper.

 

[JRFJ4-]

I spent about 13,000 on my kitchen (all materials purchased from Home Depot, or Home Expo) and all work done by myself, except for the counter installation (Sile stone won't warrantee the counter unless it is professionally installed). We moved the kitchen from one room to another that was larger, which meant that all the electric (This required a main panel upgrade as well, to meet the code requirement for number of circuits required in the kitchen BTW this lead to me putting the kitchen on hold and just rewiring the whole dam house, there were exposed bare wires in the walls. I did not include that cost in the above figure.), gas, and plumbing needed to be moved as well. We also dealt with a structural defect in the 90 year old floor beams which required some creative bracing in the basement. All told it took me the better part of a year to do this. I guess I was getting myself ready for a FJ40 build up (which starts after we finish adding a second floor).

Old Kitchen note, this is all the PO's crap. Note the custom cardboard window pane. I found that he was real handy and all of his modifications were scraped.

Empty room next to old kitchen note, this is all the PO's crap.

Same view as above, but with the kitchen almost done.

This is the view in the other direction, the kitchen used to be in the room you see through the doorway.

I had a great time doing it, and friends of mine who are contractors say they would have chaged about 28-30,000 to do the same job.

Good luck.

What did you do with the original hardwood in the new kitchen? Did you take it up or cover it up?

Nice looking kitchen.

JR

 

[LI FJ40]

Just finished mine.. Did all the demo myself, that saved me a $1000.

Cabinets = $6000
Applainces $4000
Sub Floor/Tile $300
Granite Countertops $2200
Sink $400
Faucet $500
Backsplash tile $300

LABOR $2000+

Oh yeah 10x11 size kitchen.

The best thing about a kitchen redo is that everything is new, and when you sell you will get at least 80% return on your money.

 

[74fjsemistock]

Thats if you sell in the first year.The best thing it does is speed the sale,which also equals $$.