Kitchen remodel

[HDC]

ohh I love a kitchen remodel...looking forward to the pics!

I do too. As long as I don't have to live through it! We need one terribly but it's just not high in the spending queue this year. Or even next very likely.

 

[synonymous]

I do too. As long as I don't have to live through it! We need one terribly but it's just not high in the spending queue this year. Or even next very likely.

Just live somewhere else. The only way to fly.

 

[HDC]

Just live somewhere else. The only way to fly.

Kind of what I'm thinking. Rent a place for a month or so. Maybe furnished.

 

[synonymous]

Kind of what I'm thinking. Rent a place for a month or so. Maybe furnished.

Living in a home you are renovating fawking sucks. I'm never going to make that mistake again. (Although I do need to rip out the master walk-in shower here and redo)

 

[Road Head]

Living in a home you are renovating fawking sucks. I'm never going to make that mistake again. (Although I do need to rip out the master walk-in shower here and redo)

x2. I told wifey if we dont build a house next, and instead buy an older home on the lake, I want to rent a house and live there for a short period while remodeling.

 

[Jays89YJ]

You could VE the hell out of that black cabinet kitchen and make it work. Pantry cabs are $$$$$.

 

[will_m]

It really isn't that hard to build a box.

It's the tools that get you.

If it weren't for that cost, and a lack of storage place for them, I would try building stuff myself as I cannot find many things I want for my bedroom.

The retail on my appliances was as follows:
$9500.00 48" commercial grade Stainless Steel gas oven/cooktop
$1350.00 Stainless Steel hood
$5800.00 48" Built-in Stainless Steel Refrigerator
$2800.00 30" convection oven/microwave
$450.00 Stainless Steel warming drawer
$1399.00 Stainless Steel dishwasher

Guess I was thinking of the range, not the fridge. Fridge only retailed for $6k.

I would think someone as smart as you would find better pricing.

Having visited most of the stone yards in the valley, I'd like to know where they got spiffy granite for so cheap. Granted, a good deal of the cost is in the fabrication/install (with profit built in for fabricator), but the material itself isn't cheap. I only had two slabs, and mine installed was $4200 IIRC. Fabrication was less even on mine because there is no edge lamination/special finishing, just solid, FAWKING HEAVY slabs.

Just because you spent more, doesn't mean you got the best.

 

[Road Head]

It's the tools that get you.

If it weren't for that cost, and a lack of storage place for them, I would try building stuff myself as I cannot find many things I want for my bedroom.



I would think someone as smart as you would find better pricing.



Just because you spent more, doesn't mean you got the best.

Matthew didnt buy his appliances new. He got the whole lot for something like $5k off craigslist.

 

[synonymous]

Matthew didnt buy his appliances new. He got the whole lot for something like $5k off craigslist.

$4500. Pissed off a pair of lesbians who were waiting there trying to buy the stuff. I found the seller first, and peeled off 45 Benjamins, wrote SOLD on a piece of paper, taped it to the fridge and walked past lesbians with their jaws on the ground as I was calling moving companies to get them back to town. One of them came over in tears as I was leaning against the ZJ drinking my coffee and let me have a piece of her mind. The "Money talks, and you know what walks" was my response.

 

[synonymous]

Just because you spent more, doesn't mean you got the best.

I didn't purchase WT granite.

 

[Justin]

The last guy here that did a kitchen remodel (excluding Matt of course, his is ongoing for years at this point) ended up deeevorced...

 

[synonymous]

The last guy here that did a kitchen remodel (excluding Matt of course, his is ongoing for years at this point) ended up deeevorced...

His remodel was so low end it drove his wife into the arms of a Mexican.

 

[Road Head]

I want an electric smoothtop range, with oven AND microwave. Do they make such a thing? We do not have gas, so no, we will not be buying a gas range.

 

[synonymous]

I want an electric smoothtop range, with oven AND microwave. Do they make such a thing? We do not have gas, so no, we will not be buying a gas range.

I dislike electric ranges, but if you are going with one, smooth top is the way to go.

My wall oven is a microwave/oven combo.

 

[Road Head]

I apparently construed that you would no longer have an oven of any sort.

As far as free-standing ranges go, they are fairly inexpensive. Although.... Micrwaves above ranges suck.

Im not sure what we would do without our oven. We use it far more than we use the stove.

I wish I could find a place to put a microwave below the counter, but I cant find anywhere that works AND makes sense. Same with above counter...with the exception of above the range.

I considered extending the edge of the "island" to the left, and putting a microwave there, kind of facing the fridge. It would work, but we would lose the drawer storage that is there. Plus, I would have to widen that part, it is standard 24" now. They do make 24" built in microwaves, but I would need some room on either side. It would also be kind of annoying because it would eat into the pathway from the doorway through the kitchen. So even there really isnt logical with such cramped spaces.

 

[synonymous]

Having multiple ovens rocks. I've got 3, and have used them all simultaneously already. Have 6 burners and a grill also rules. I've used the grill to set my griddle pan on cooking bacon, while i had hash browns going on one burner, mushrooms & onions sauteeing on another, spinach wilting on another, sausage going on another, and omlettes being made with said ingredients on another. Even had one to spare. Now I need more pans.

 

[synonymous]

Oh yeah, where you putting the wine fridge?

 

[Road Head]

Oh yeah, where you putting the wine fridge?

I was originally planning on putting it where that cabinet is right inside the sliding door to the right...you can see it in the post above.

But now I think I am going to put it here. I want to make this the coffee/wine area, complete with little sink. Keep our coffee pots, mugs, etc, along with all the wine, wine glasses, tumblers, etc all over here. This space is really used for nothing right now except storage and a place to put the microwave (which is a PITA)

 

[synonymous]

What do you use the area between the concrete covered bar thing and the other penninsula in your kitchen for? Seems like had you not put the door out where you did, you could have just made your kitchen larger. Do you have an actual dining room in this place?

 

[Road Head]

What do you use the area between the concrete covered bar thing and the other penninsula in your kitchen for? Seems like had you not put the door out where you did, you could have just made your kitchen larger. Do you have an actual dining room in this place?

Yes, we have a "formal" living room (roughly 12'x18') and dining room (roughly 12'x12'), they are through the doorway between the fridge and that bank of cabinets. When we moved in, there was a tiny table and a couple of chairs crammed in that space you are talking about. It was really, really cramped. We pulled down the wall and opened the kitchen into the den up and built that bar. Without a doubt, the new arrangment with the door swap works much better. Our den is now an actual den, rather than a pass-through room where we had stuck a tv and couch. Plus, our entry onto the covered patio is now centered...and as soon as I build the steps, we will have a really nice entry point into the house. So we lost potential space in the kitchen, but for what we need/want, this setup works well. The only real thing I wish I could find space for would be the built in microwave, but since I am happy with the rest, I'll get over it. Next house...next house.