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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, I have grounded outlets etc but might move some electric boxes and the little water supply to the fridge. Hopefully it won't be a nightmare. If I want the fancy lazy susan inserts, to ma?ximize my space, will that add more than another 2 or 3K?

Also, has anyone here had an Ikea kitchen for more than 5 years? My book-cases are ok, but the chest of drawers did't last long[/quote]

So long as you keep your reno simple, I don't see why you can't stay on budget.  Moving a few electrical boxes will be much less than $1000. My bet is that your whole electrical bill could be less than $1000 - including that labor, labor to install lighting, replace the switches, and supplies/materials (like new overhead lights).  My understanding is that the fridge water isn't "plumbing" so much as it's a flexible small copper pipe. I don't think it even needs to go behind drywall - so should not be expensive to do that.

We've had several ikea kitchens and they've always held up fine.  I'll acknowledge that my mother's $80k cabinets probably have aged better than my $5000 ikea cabs (for a similar size space).  But my ikea cabinets have aged considerably better than my several friends who were adamant to not use Ikea because they thought it was "cheap", and went to HD and bought the next price point up from ikea.  Those HD cabinets have not aged well - paint chipping and peeling within a month, plywood doors that look like plywood.... The ikea cabinets are a whole different beast than Ikea's furniture line.  Must better quality - I think Ikea has really vested a lot of R&D into making them exceptional quality for their price point.  Just go to the store and check them out.

Also - the amazing beauty about ikea cabs is that all the inserts are included in the price. Lazy susans and everything.  It is unbelievable what you get for the Ikea price point. For another point of comparison, we were doing a white high gloss kitchen and nervous whether ikea would be too cheap.  We weren't going to do the $80k high end Italian kitchen, but we did look at midrange Porcelanosa. They quoted us $35k for HALF the cabinets that we got at ikea -- and inserts were another $9000 on top of that. Remember - our whole ikea bill, for twice as many cabinets and inserts was $5000.  And porcelanosa white lacquer looked and felt identical to ikea, and had pretty identical hardware (ikea uses blum hardware - exact same pieces as the high end euro cabinets - my mom has literally the exact same hinges and drawer pulls as mine).  The only difference was that Porcelanosa doors were wrapped in lacquer, while ikea wrapped onto the sides but not the back. The back has melamine. So porcelanosa is slightly better there, but not to justify $70k more.  If I have any problems with my ikea door front getting water damage under the sink, i'll buy a new cabinet front for $150.

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