We have saved for several years to renovate our kitchen so we could pay cash for it. It was so etching my wife wanted, it was all fine with me, and it would hopefully make it easier to sell the house at some point in time.
The project started as putting in granite counters and adding 3 pull out drawers in an open space under the island. Well each day something got added, such as taking 3 shelves out of the other side of the island and putting in drawers. Then a small narrow 2 shelf area next to the stove became a pull out drawer with 3 shelves for spices and all kinds of oils. Of course with granite it was a new sink and new faucet....after it was in my wife says she hopes she didn't make a mistake in the style she picked out and I told her too late now as granite had to be cut for what she wanted.
We needed a new refrigerator since ours us 23.5 yrs old, still works and will go in the garage, but looks awful. Well the contractor, a good friend, says "you can't have a stainless refrig and the rest of the appliances white" so we now have a new stove, microwave, dishwasher, refrig.
With new drawers that means we had to have handles to pull them out, which means all new handles and hinges on all cabinets.
Also have the kitchen walls and ceilings painted. Needed the new wood stained and the painter says the new wood will look new and shiny but the cabinets while in great shape will look dull, so all wood is being redone
I felt like I was on the show property brothers where things and $$$$$ were changing daily if not hourly
And one last thing, if you think you know what's in you kitchen you have no idea. Trust me. When you have to take it all out, you better get a big garbage can and start throwing away. Our dining room table, floor, living room floor and coffee table, office floor, two card tables are all full. And that doesn't count things in the cabinets we didn't have to move, just what was on top and those shelves and this glass standing shelf thing we have
Throw in how many dinners I have had to buy and bring home, I am broke. Thank goodness I didn't have to bring cattails down here for the painting or me banker would have given Carl a trip to Vegas to play golf
Don't renovate guys, resist your wife as hard as you can, a few nights in the guest room will be fine
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