Kitchen re-model cost

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They may be a little high but not 30%- hard to tell without additional info. We just completed a full kitchen remodel and the design/build was just over 115K (all-in minus appliance costs). We used a separate design firm and GC to keep the costs a bit lower and found design build firms to be higher. However, our house is likely much smaller too (~1.2M in DC).

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About $100K all-in for our house in Silver Spring, worth about $1M.

[Anonymous]

Whoa.

Our kitchen remodel was for a kitchen that was 14 x 12. Fairfax. May 2020. Project took 4 weeks.

40k. + 8k in appliances.

This included the following:

Demo and clean up. Removal of tiled flooring.
Gas line install.
Range movement and ventilation install.
Complete electrical overhaul and cabinet layout change.
Brand new plywood cabinets and trim. (8k rta cabinets).
Install of new wood floor.
Painting.

The thing that helped costs the most- having the cabinet company do the design. The autocad it for you with 3D drawings. My gc loved it.

[Anonymous]

For those looking for affordable options, we are getting IKEA cabinets for $5k and we’re quoted $2.4K for installation by IKEA. Live in NW DC and kitchen is 14x9ish (opens to dining room). Still sourcing countertops and appliances and plan to DIY tile so another 9k?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We recently did a kitchen remodel - down to the studs and flooring. We're in a typical DC row house, so significantly mush smaller than yours.
$15,000 - plywood base cabinets with all wood front doors custom painted
$7,500 - Quartz counters and backsplash (the quartz goes 18" up the wall)
$7,000 - appliances (some of which were bought pre-covid and I noticed that they've gone up. For instance our panel ready dishwasher was $700 but now $950)
$3,500 - designer fee
$45k - labor and some additional supplies like a new window

So, yes. It sounds like the estimates you got are to be expected and that's probably for a basic kitchen not a high end one.

here's a helpful blog post from 2018 from a designer in Arizona where presumably labor is slightly less expensive than here.

Sorry PP but those are so very low-mid range appliance you must have gotten. OP's house is in McLean valued at $1.8M. The stove alone should cost $7K - if you're putting high-end appliances in a home, which you should be in this case. For the cabinets, you must have very few to come in at $15K. Quartz price sounds about right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

DP, but for function, I will absolutely stick with granite. I like to cook and have better things to do with my time than maintain countertops.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

DP, but for function, I will absolutely stick with granite. I like to cook and have better things to do with my time than maintain countertops.

Or quartzite. It's beautiful like marble, but durable like granite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

Granite is out and has been for a couple of years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

DP, but for function, I will absolutely stick with granite. I like to cook and have better things to do with my time than maintain countertops.

Or quartzite. It's beautiful like marble, but durable like granite.

It's beautiful and $$$$.

[Anonymous]

Quartz cost more than granite, quartz is very durable and low maintenance.

[Anonymous]

There's marble, quartzite, soapstone, and the more "plain" granites that can be done in a honed finish. You can't puta hot pan on quartz, so for me I'd never put it in the main area of a kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoa.

Our kitchen remodel was for a kitchen that was 14 x 12. Fairfax. May 2020. Project took 4 weeks.

40k. + 8k in appliances.

This included the following:

Demo and clean up. Removal of tiled flooring.
Gas line install.
Range movement and ventilation install.
Complete electrical overhaul and cabinet layout change.
Brand new plywood cabinets and trim. (8k rta cabinets).
Install of new wood floor.
Painting.

The thing that helped costs the most- having the cabinet company do the design. The autocad it for you with 3D drawings. My gc loved it.

You paid a huge amount in labor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa.

Our kitchen remodel was for a kitchen that was 14 x 12. Fairfax. May 2020. Project took 4 weeks.

40k. + 8k in appliances.

This included the following:

Demo and clean up. Removal of tiled flooring.
Gas line install.
Range movement and ventilation install.
Complete electrical overhaul and cabinet layout change.
Brand new plywood cabinets and trim. (8k rta cabinets).
Install of new wood floor.
Painting.

The thing that helped costs the most- having the cabinet company do the design. The autocad it for you with 3D drawings. My gc loved it.

You paid a huge amount in labor.

We couldn't find a master electrician under $150/hr. NP here. Bringing the gas line is around 4k. These are not DYI type of jobs and honestly, I can tell right away who has a DYI's job. You can easily tell even in painting.

[Anonymous]

Labor seems too high, I would bring people from put of the area of that is labor

[Anonymous]

Look into rta cabinets