Kitchen advice

[Anonymous]

We are looking to freshen up our kitchen and would like some ideas before moving forward--kitchen is 12 by 15 with a butlers pantry 7 by 4

1) would like to take out granite and replace with Quartz--anyone have ballpark ideas on cost. We bought our house new so this is first change (house is 10 years old)

2) Ditti back sash

3) cabinets are in great shape but I yearn for white cabinets --how do you change colors and how is this done?

I am thinking of hiring a kitchen designer but wonder if this is a good use of money as I do not need to change the shape of kitchen etc or do I go to an interior designer or even a place that sells quartz or marble!!

Any advice much appreciated!!

[Anonymous]

Can you attach a picture? I'm pretty good with kitchen design.

[Anonymous]

What are your cabinets right now? Depending on how nice they are, you should just consider replacing all the cabs with Ikea. This is practically as cheap as having someone come in and refinish them - but with refinishing, the paint is going to chip, the style may be 10 years old, the facing may not match.... You can do semihandmade or kokeena if you have a particular door style you want that ikea doesn't have.

If you want to stick with your current cabinets, you can either paint them (recommend getting this professionally done) or "refaced". You could also look into a more expensive option of getting new cabinet doors on your existing cabinets. Depends how custom your current kitchen is. If it's not that custom of a kitchen, or if it's already an ikea kitchen, then it would be really easy to swap out the doors. But then you have the problem of what color are the inside of your cabs? And what about the little facing strip on the front of the cabinets behind the doors? Are your doors slab style so that this strip is essentially fully covered? Or do you need to replace that strip?

Quartz will be around $100 a sf installed - give or take $20sf depending on the installer and color you pick. If you go to ikea during a kitchen sale, they have some nice ceasarstone quartz at prices that cannot be beaten.

Back splash prices are going to be so all over the place it's not worth quoting. You can get the classic white subway tile from home depot and easily do it yourself - for $200 total. Or you can go to ann sacks and spend $10k including labor.