Cost for kitchen renovation in NW DC
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Anonymous
| I'm having trouble finding this information in the forums. Can anyone share what they spent on their kitchen renovation? We would be replacing everything, removing one wall, and moving plumbing about 5 feet. Also changing out two exterior windows. We have received 3 quotes that were all over 100k (without appliances) and are just looking to do midrange cabinets, so this seems really high. Has anyone done it for less? |
Anonymous
| I'm also interested in this topic because we'll be doing almost the exact same amount of work as you. We haven't put anything out to bid yet. |
Anonymous
| We gutted a small galley kitchen and added a powder room and it came in under 50K. It wasn't super high end, but it looks pretty great. We used Globe Kitchen and Bath. |
Anonymous
| 20x12 kitchen. Last fall we demolished it and took out one non load bearing wall. We refinished and changed layout to reuse cabinets. All else was new. Tile floor, marble counters, bosch and Samsung appliances, all new paint on everything in kitchen and dining room, new lighting and lighting layout changes and a bit of plumbing (less than 1 foot of pipe moved) and installation of a new gas and water line (house already had both) all for less than $20G in about 6 weeks BUT we did a lot ourselves other than the plumbing and electrical. No window changes. We are very handy and if we can do it, we do...we did as much as we could/had time to do so that we could upgrade some things (the ugly cabinets we already had were better quality than what we could afford to replace with thus the refinishing). |
Anonymous
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That is not a helpful answer for most people.
You reused cabinets and did a lot of work yourself so, of course, it was cheap. Not exactly what the OP is looking for. OP, if you got 3 quotes and they are all over 100k, not sure you can do that much better. You must have a large kitchen with a lot of cabinets. |
Anonymous
| You're probably getting design build quotes. Maybe a kitchen designer would be cheaper. Also, the Windows = permits = up charge. I would say labor around 40 and the rest materials and cabinets. Also, what kind of cabinets? Inset = big up charge. |
Anonymous
| Ours was ~ 160 square feet (12 x 8 with 12 x5 attached eat in area). I did gut with no move of plumbing nor walls,no new windows, put in 23 new quality upper mid range cabs for $20k, great searched for buys on appliances at $9.5 (Wolf 36"range with 900 cfm Wolf vent and new exterior blower and Broan MUA, Miele Dimension with 3rd rack DW, 36" JennAir counter depth fridge and microwave), lots of layers of lighting so electrical was high, marble CT, BS, redone wood floors, lots of intense painting,all with permits (plumbing, havoc, electric, general) through GC. ~$80,000.00. Happy to get rid of old. |
Anonymous
This. OP your job sounds enormous. |
Anonymous
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who are you getting quotes from? I would try three general contractors, not design build, Price out cabinets and appliances and countertops separately. Get a labor quote, so you can compare apples to apples. But it does sound expensive. Then again, we did a gut remodel, removing two load bearing walls, moving plumbing, electric everything but new floors, for 60k not including appliances. But our kitchen was not big.
I would like to recommend you add Angel Truesta at wall to wall to your list of bids. We didn't use him (wish we did) but a friend did and was very pleased. |
Anonymous
| OP, we spend about $100K on ours. $20K for cabinets, $20K for appliances and I don't recall the breakdown of everything else, which included moving plumbing, gas, etc. Our kitchen is mid-sized and I'd say it's mid-to-high end. |
Anonymous
| We're in MoCo (close in) and spent about $45k for a galley kitchen remodel w/electrical upgrade, plumbing moves on a slab, and opening up a load bearing wall. We got quotes as high as $75k. OP, I'm guessing that you can find contractors to do the work at something below six figures, but my experience is that anything more than a simple rip-and-replace makes the art of finding a good, reliable, honest contractor much trickier. GL! |
Anonymous
How is that not helpful. The op might decide to be more handy to save money. I'm dying to know more from people who can do this. I'd do more myself if I could. Reading that price comparison makes me want to be able to do more on my own. Was pp a designer or did u use one or a cad program for layout? That's our biggest issue.... |
Anonymous
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About 30K.
13K for real wood cabinets 3.5K for granite 3K for hardwood (not just the kitchen, though) The rest was labor and smaller materials. |
Anonymous
+1-maybe your kitchen is really big, but I recently got 3 bids that were closer to 50K (not included appliances) for all of the items you mentioned from mid-range general contractors that were recommended by colleagues/neighbors (not design build though). |
Anonymous
| OP back. Thanks everyone. For those that got bids around 50k, can you share the name of vendors you talked to or got bids from? Thanks in advance. |