Original poster here: thanks everyone for the quick replies and advice.

I’m definitely going to solicit bids and see where this goes.

I appreciate the help. Of course the comment period remains open for what I’m sure will be an edifying and humbling experience (:

Small bedrooom addition, master bath refresh (new tub/tile/paint, but no need vanity or floor, and kitchen renovation including tearing down wall between dining and kitchen for 170k

We just finished a kitchen plus a few other odds and ends. We had a general contractor and worked with a designer who is on her own (she used to work for a design firm then started her own business.). Our kitchen is 12x12 plus a 12x10 eat in area. We did not move any walls and did minimal plumbing work.

Appliances - $11,000 for Cafe refrigerator, Cafe Advantium Wall Oven (microwave advantium on top and conventional/convection bake oven on bottom) Cafe 30" cooktop, hood. My dishwasher (Cafe) was only a year old so I didn't get a new one. If I had gone with GE's profile line (step below cafe) it would have been the same price with a new dishwasher. Decided to keep the 1 year old Cafe dishwasher and do brand new everything else.

Cabinets - $23,000 Kraftmaid maple shaker style. In the 12x12 kitchen area, I have 4 upper cabinets, 5 lower cabinets plus the cabinet below the cooktop, cabinet below the sink and lazy susan in one corner. My wall oven and fridge are in appliance cabinets. In my eat in area, we put a wall of cabinets - two tall pantry cabinets and three base cabinets. I only got a couple of fancy features - trash cabinet; lazy susan; one two tiered utensil drawer. Otherwise, the rest were standard cabinets.

Quartz countertop - $5000. It's a large peninsula countertop.

Herringbone marble backsplash - $1500

Farmhouse sink, 2 pendant lights, hardware for cabinets, sink faucet - $3000

So materials alone were $57,000.

We changed the kitchen, powder room and entry floor from ceramic tile to hardwood. And refinished all the wood floors in the house (2000 square feet.). We changed the stair banister .The entire main level was repainted plus the stairwell going upstairs and upstairs hallway (probably about 1200 square feet total.). New recessed lighting in the kitchen. We did have some minor plumbing done - we had soffits before to hide the trap pipes from upstairs. They moved the traps so we could get rid of the soffits. Otherwise, no other plumbing work than what was needed for the removal of the old sink and gas cooktop and installation of new ones.
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Contractor charged $68,000 for all the work.

So total cost was $125

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Repainting our cabinets, adding a tall appliance tower on the counter, replacing counter with quartz, removing a few bulkheads, replacing one ceiling lights with two and adding three pendants, new backsplash, and new hood and fridge cost us almost 50k. This was for a mid-size kitchen where we kept all other appliances and did not move any plumbing. What you are describing will be at least 100k.

That amount is bananas for that amount of work.

This includes all the appliances (I forgot we also got a new panel ready dishwasher), materials and finishes, which were not cheap. There were a few more carpentry things that I did not mention (dishwasher panel, modifying two cabinets, new fridge enclosure, added window trim, adjusting cabinet height for the new countertops), a minor floor repair and some moving and adding of electrical outlets The cabinets were professionally sprayed, not painted on with a roller (try to ask in Home Depot how much just that costs for an average size kitchen). And of course there was significant drywall repair and the kitchen needed to be repainted. Things add up really quickly and stuff you do not expect will pop up. It is good to be realistic when going into the kitchen reno as we definitely did not go with a very expensive contractor.

I assumed they meant that amount was cheap.

DP. I assumed expensive.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Repainting our cabinets, adding a tall appliance tower on the counter, replacing counter with quartz, removing a few bulkheads, replacing one ceiling lights with two and adding three pendants, new backsplash, and new hood and fridge cost us almost 50k. This was for a mid-size kitchen where we kept all other appliances and did not move any plumbing. What you are describing will be at least 100k.

That amount is bananas for that amount of work.

This includes all the appliances (I forgot we also got a new panel ready dishwasher), materials and finishes, which were not cheap. There were a few more carpentry things that I did not mention (dishwasher panel, modifying two cabinets, new fridge enclosure, added window trim, adjusting cabinet height for the new countertops), a minor floor repair and some moving and adding of electrical outlets The cabinets were professionally sprayed, not painted on with a roller (try to ask in Home Depot how much just that costs for an average size kitchen). And of course there was significant drywall repair and the kitchen needed to be repainted. Things add up really quickly and stuff you do not expect will pop up. It is good to be realistic when going into the kitchen reno as we definitely did not go with a very expensive contractor.

I assumed they meant that amount was cheap.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Repainting our cabinets, adding a tall appliance tower on the counter, replacing counter with quartz, removing a few bulkheads, replacing one ceiling lights with two and adding three pendants, new backsplash, and new hood and fridge cost us almost 50k. This was for a mid-size kitchen where we kept all other appliances and did not move any plumbing. What you are describing will be at least 100k.

That amount is bananas for that amount of work.

This includes all the appliances (I forgot we also got a new panel ready dishwasher), materials and finishes, which were not cheap. There were a few more carpentry things that I did not mention (dishwasher panel, modifying two cabinets, new fridge enclosure, added window trim, adjusting cabinet height for the new countertops), a minor floor repair and some moving and adding of electrical outlets The cabinets were professionally sprayed, not painted on with a roller (try to ask in Home Depot how much just that costs for an average size kitchen). And of course there was significant drywall repair and the kitchen needed to be repainted. Things add up really quickly and stuff you do not expect will pop up. It is good to be realistic when going into the kitchen reno as we definitely did not go with a very expensive contractor.

Get many bids. Mix them with General Contractors and Kitchen And Bath shops. Our kitchen remodel bids were all over the place.

Anonymous wrote:Repainting our cabinets, adding a tall appliance tower on the counter, replacing counter with quartz, removing a few bulkheads, replacing one ceiling lights with two and adding three pendants, new backsplash, and new hood and fridge cost us almost 50k. This was for a mid-size kitchen where we kept all other appliances and did not move any plumbing. What you are describing will be at least 100k.

That amount is bananas for that amount of work.

$100k-$200k depending on size of the kitchen and finishes

Repainting our cabinets, adding a tall appliance tower on the counter, replacing counter with quartz, removing a few bulkheads, replacing one ceiling lights with two and adding three pendants, new backsplash, and new hood and fridge cost us almost 50k. This was for a mid-size kitchen where we kept all other appliances and did not move any plumbing. What you are describing will be at least 100k.

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget that if you tear out a wall you also have also to replace your flooring. I got a quote mainly for cabinet refacing over the weekend, and it turned out to around 50k for just mid-range quality cabinet refacing, inserts, and countertops, but not including appliances. We have had so much work done on our home exterior in the last few years (new windows, repainting, new roof) so I thought I had a good handle on what prices to expect, but I was shocked by the kitchen quote. There is a 1000% markup for everything kitchens.

^ Just like with weddings. In fact, take whatever you paid for your wedding or your child's wedding and double it, and that's probably your kitchen quote.

Don't forget that if you tear out a wall you also have also to replace your flooring. I got a quote mainly for cabinet refacing over the weekend, and it turned out to around 50k for just mid-range quality cabinet refacing, inserts, and countertops, but not including appliances. We have had so much work done on our home exterior in the last few years (new windows, repainting, new roof) so I thought I had a good handle on what prices to expect, but I was shocked by the kitchen quote. There is a 1000% markup for everything kitchens.

This isn’t a ‘knock out a wall and call it a day’ situation—what you’re describing is a full-on kitchen remodel. That wall has your sink, range, and oven, so we’re talking plumbing, gas, electrical, new peninsula, countertop fabrication, permits, inspections. And when those cabinets come out, surprise! Your floors won’t magically extend, so you’ll be refinishing or replacing those too. Even if you pinky-swear you’re not ‘replacing cabinets,’ this is a domino effect, and $50K is the cover charge, not the bottle service. In DC money? Think $100K–$250K if you want it to look seamless, and more if you’ve got that McLean energy.

Anonymous wrote:I have a galley kitchen that I'd like to open up to my dining room. This would require removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room, which I believe is non-loadbearing. This wall, however, in the kitchen has the oven, range, and sink on it. The top part of this wall would be knocked out and form a peninsula, with cabinets added on the other side of the peninsula. Otherwise not looking to replace floors or cabinets.

Any idea of how much this would be? Looking to spend $50k +

We spent 70k on ours back in 2015. It's probably more than that now.

I have a galley kitchen that I'd like to open up to my dining room. This would require removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room, which I believe is non-loadbearing. This wall, however, in the kitchen has the oven, range, and sink on it. The top part of this wall would be knocked out and form a peninsula, with cabinets added on the other side of the peninsula. Otherwise not looking to replace floors or cabinets.

Any idea of how much this would be? Looking to spend $50k +