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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Contemplating an update and want to keep costs under control...curious about costs - if you are willing to share, what size was your kitchen and what did you spend on material and labor?
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We just finished our IKEA reno of a 10x15 kitchen. Simple white slab cabinets and the Barkaboda walnut herringbone countertop (it's gorgeous but I'm still somewhat skeptical about long-range durability). Appliances were somewhat basic but not bare bones (slide-in range, Blomberg dishwasher, nicer white fridge). We have no delusions of this being a premium kitchen, but when we bought the house the kitchen was unusable, with the cabinets pulling away from the wall and mouse-eaten, range and refrigerator just functional enough to count for conventional financing but functionally inoperable, and a giant section of the ceiling missing. So we had to do something fast, and decided we'd try and do a total renovation for $10k. Hence, IKEA. My ballpark breakdown of costs is:

$3k- cabinets, countertop, hardware, sink (all from IKEA)
$1.5k- rewiring, replacing all outlets with GFCI, adding 2 new circuits 
$500- minor gas line relocation and plumbing repairs to existing sink infrastructure 
$2.5k- new appliances and range hood
$1k- new drywall for the ceiling and one wall that looked like swiss cheese after all of the electrical work
$500- assorted incidentals, adhesives, paint, tools, etc...

We built all of the cabinets and installed them and the countertop ourselves. We got the flooring for free from a friend in the industry and installed that ourselves as well. Did the demo ourselves as well, and staggered the existing kitchen debris into 2 bulk trash pickups from the city (DC- they claim they don't take cabinets but they have for us and all of our friends who have done the same so YMMV). We still need to buy and install the tile backsplash and do some minor trimwork to give the room a more completed look, and figure that we'll spend another $500 in the process, when all is said and done.

As for IKEA versus other low-cost options, we priced out going with the basic white shaker cabinets that you can pickup at Lowe's or HD. Not really the look we were going for but wanted to do our due diligence.  Price came out to be about the same, but the quality (particularly of the hardware), range of options, modularity and customization from IKEA blew the big box stores out of the water. That being said, IKEA cabinets are super labor intensive, and a PITA to install- the system is paradoxically straight forward but also complicated, and I think that if you hired that part of it out the install costs will be higher by a not insignificant amount. [/quote]

THank you - which cabinets did you choose and what size kitchen (maybe I overlooked this)?[/quote]

We used the Haggeby white cabinets- we had initally planned to use the Veddinge white, thinking that as the cheapest option the Haggeby would be sh*t. In the process, we read a lot of not so great reviews about the Veddinge- specifically that the finish doesn't hold up very well, and have friends who used Haggeby for their commercial bakery kitchen and found that hey held up well over 3 years. We spent our money on the cabinet carcasses, hardware, and optimizing layout over the cabinet fronts, as we're not sure if this is a 5 year house, or a 20 year house- and if we stay, we'll upgrade the cabinet fronts to Ringhult ($$$ gloss white finish) and the countertops to Silestone. The actual Haggeby fronts were maybe $250 total- the bulk of the cost is the innards- so we're willing to eat this as a sunk cost if we stay long term.

Our kitchen has 2 parts, one is a 10x10 "L" with all of the appliances, sink, etc... and then a 6' run of base cabinets only along the opposite wall. The kitchen was billed as "eat-in" but really only fit a tiny 2-person bistro table, so we opted to add cabinets and work surface as we already have a large dining room that we prefer to eat in. [/quote]

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