Anonymous wrote:I would keep looking. We are in MoCo but spent $17-20K in labor to do the kitchen, including tearing down a wall and rearranging the floor plan.

This is more along the lines of what we were expecting. Do you mind sharing the name of your contractor? We are continuing to look- unfortunately the looking process is dragging on far longer than we expected. It is taking a few weeks to get anyone over to the house to see what we'd like done and another few weeks to turn around a quote each time.

I would keep looking. We are in MoCo but spent $17-20K in labor to do the kitchen, including tearing down a wall and rearranging the floor plan.

Yes those are normal prices. We are doing a kitchen reno (in design process now) involving removing a non load-bearing wall and rearranging the current kitchen and it's going to be in the 50's. And that's with mid-range everything.
We got the same quote if we wanted to enclose our back porch to enlarge the kitchen/dining area and decided it wasn't worth it. Additions are on the economy of scale so for the structure, larger is much cheaper per sf and a small addition is going to be much higher with much less benefit. We don't want to lose our small backyard so we decided to just work with the space we have and make the best of it.

DH and I live in a tiny town house of about 800 or 900 square feet. We've been requesting quotes from contractors on some improvements, and our minds are boggled by the prices coming back...ie $60-70k to add a 70 square foot addition onto an existing foundation (ie enclosing our patio and tearing down the wall in between to increase the living room size). We are over the idea of increasing the house's footprint based on these figures and just focusing on renovating the kitchen. Still the prices seem extraordinary. We are getting quotes in the $40k range for a kitchen reno that involves tearing down a wall between the living room and kitchen and rearranging the kitchen floor plan. This is before cost of appliances and cabinets...and the kitchen itself is quite small.

Are these normal prices?

Can you recommend someone who you've been happy with?