Kitchen Remodel Cost

[Anonymous]

I have a galley kitchen that I'd like to open up to my dining room. This would require removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room, which I believe is non-loadbearing. This wall, however, in the kitchen has the oven, range, and sink on it. The top part of this wall would be knocked out and form a peninsula, with cabinets added on the other side of the peninsula. Otherwise not looking to replace floors or cabinets.

Any idea of how much this would be? Looking to spend $50k +

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a galley kitchen that I'd like to open up to my dining room. This would require removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room, which I believe is non-loadbearing. This wall, however, in the kitchen has the oven, range, and sink on it. The top part of this wall would be knocked out and form a peninsula, with cabinets added on the other side of the peninsula. Otherwise not looking to replace floors or cabinets.

Any idea of how much this would be? Looking to spend $50k +

We spent 70k on ours back in 2015. It's probably more than that now.

[Anonymous]

This isn’t a ‘knock out a wall and call it a day’ situation—what you’re describing is a full-on kitchen remodel. That wall has your sink, range, and oven, so we’re talking plumbing, gas, electrical, new peninsula, countertop fabrication, permits, inspections. And when those cabinets come out, surprise! Your floors won’t magically extend, so you’ll be refinishing or replacing those too. Even if you pinky-swear you’re not ‘replacing cabinets,’ this is a domino effect, and $50K is the cover charge, not the bottle service. In DC money? Think $100K–$250K if you want it to look seamless, and more if you’ve got that McLean energy.

[Anonymous]

Don't forget that if you tear out a wall you also have also to replace your flooring. I got a quote mainly for cabinet refacing over the weekend, and it turned out to around 50k for just mid-range quality cabinet refacing, inserts, and countertops, but not including appliances. We have had so much work done on our home exterior in the last few years (new windows, repainting, new roof) so I thought I had a good handle on what prices to expect, but I was shocked by the kitchen quote. There is a 1000% markup for everything kitchens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget that if you tear out a wall you also have also to replace your flooring. I got a quote mainly for cabinet refacing over the weekend, and it turned out to around 50k for just mid-range quality cabinet refacing, inserts, and countertops, but not including appliances. We have had so much work done on our home exterior in the last few years (new windows, repainting, new roof) so I thought I had a good handle on what prices to expect, but I was shocked by the kitchen quote. There is a 1000% markup for everything kitchens.

^ Just like with weddings. In fact, take whatever you paid for your wedding or your child's wedding and double it, and that's probably your kitchen quote.

[Anonymous]

Repainting our cabinets, adding a tall appliance tower on the counter, replacing counter with quartz, removing a few bulkheads, replacing one ceiling lights with two and adding three pendants, new backsplash, and new hood and fridge cost us almost 50k. This was for a mid-size kitchen where we kept all other appliances and did not move any plumbing. What you are describing will be at least 100k.