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Anonymous wrote:Whoa.

Our kitchen remodel was for a kitchen that was 14 x 12. Fairfax. May 2020. Project took 4 weeks.

40k. + 8k in appliances.

This included the following:

Demo and clean up. Removal of tiled flooring.
Gas line install.
Range movement and ventilation install.
Complete electrical overhaul and cabinet layout change.
Brand new plywood cabinets and trim. (8k rta cabinets).
Install of new wood floor.
Painting.

The thing that helped costs the most- having the cabinet company do the design. The autocad it for you with 3D drawings. My gc loved it.

You paid a huge amount in labor.

Anonymous wrote:Whoa.

Our kitchen remodel was for a kitchen that was 14 x 12. Fairfax. May 2020. Project took 4 weeks.

40k. + 8k in appliances.

This included the following:

Demo and clean up. Removal of tiled flooring.
Gas line install.
Range movement and ventilation install.
Complete electrical overhaul and cabinet layout change.
Brand new plywood cabinets and trim. (8k rta cabinets).
Install of new wood floor.
Painting.

The thing that helped costs the most- having the cabinet company do the design. The autocad it for you with 3D drawings. My gc loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

DP, but for function, I will absolutely stick with granite. I like to cook and have better things to do with my time than maintain countertops.

Or quartzite. It's beautiful like marble, but durable like granite.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

DP, but for function, I will absolutely stick with granite. I like to cook and have better things to do with my time than maintain countertops.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Okay then what is the material we should be using if we don't want "laminate" countertops? Other than marble that is, which is pretty impractical for many on here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a quote from my builder and the estimate is about the same as yours. Only difference is we don't request for high-end appliance (subzero or wolf). We plan to buy kitchenaid or samsung from HD ourselves.

Cabinet= most expensive expense (also the market is short of glass doors)

Quartz countertop = go to dulles airport stone shops and you can buy and select the pattern yourself to save money. Granite is out of date and you'd better use everything quartz.

Quartz is the laminate of the future.

Definitely. What made granite out of date? It was installed everywhere to make ho hum work look premium, especially condo rehabs. What's today's equivalent? Quartz and house flippers.

Anonymous wrote:We recently did a kitchen remodel - down to the studs and flooring. We're in a typical DC row house, so significantly mush smaller than yours.
$15,000 - plywood base cabinets with all wood front doors custom painted
$7,500 - Quartz counters and backsplash (the quartz goes 18" up the wall)
$7,000 - appliances (some of which were bought pre-covid and I noticed that they've gone up. For instance our panel ready dishwasher was $700 but now $950)
$3,500 - designer fee
$45k - labor and some additional supplies like a new window

So, yes. It sounds like the estimates you got are to be expected and that's probably for a basic kitchen not a high end one.

here's a helpful blog post from 2018 from a designer in Arizona where presumably labor is slightly less expensive than here.

Anonymous wrote:They may be a little high but not 30%- hard to tell without additional info. We just completed a full kitchen remodel and the design/build was just over 115K (all-in minus appliance costs). We used a separate design firm and GC to keep the costs a bit lower and found design build firms to be higher. However, our house is likely much smaller too (~1.2M in DC).