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[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 [b]Barkaboda walnut herringbone countertop[/b] (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]

As you should be. I have that in my office.  My son left ice water on it and the condensation bubbled up the veneer. Very pretty, but it is one step better than pressed cardboard. I think the "walnut veneer" is a few millimeters thick.[/quote]

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