How to understand cheap materials?

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Hi,

I see in this forum lots of people commenting that houses are built/renovated with builder grade material? How can you tell that from a picture? I understand that it takes an educated eye but if there are easy red flags, please tell me!

[Anonymous]

Vinyl flooring. Kitchen cabinets that don’t go to the ceiling.

[Anonymous]

Go to home depot and familiarize yourself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kitchen cabinets that don’t go to the ceiling.

This drives me nuts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kitchen cabinets that don’t go to the ceiling.

This drives me nuts

Yes, why do people do this? It can't be that much of a savings.

[Anonymous]

look at the floors.

[Anonymous]

If the window frames are flush with the outside of the house, it's a cheap build and run away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kitchen cabinets that don’t go to the ceiling.

This drives me nuts

Yes, why do people do this? It can't be that much of a savings.

I have expensive custom inset cabinets that do not go to the ceiling. The ceilings are too high and it would look weird to have a huge piece of moulding on top (I even have 48 in cabinets).

[Anonymous]

Builder grade is better than owner/handyman work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Builder grade is better than owner/handyman work.

Yes, we found this out the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kitchen cabinets that don’t go to the ceiling.

This drives me nuts

Yes, why do people do this? It can't be that much of a savings.

I have expensive custom inset cabinets that do not go to the ceiling. The ceilings are too high and it would look weird to have a huge piece of moulding on top (I even have 48 in cabinets).

Same with ours. Plus, our oven hood is custom made and goes to the ceiling, the cabinets being lower is part of the design.