Typical budget for cabinetry in new homes
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Comments (11)It is just that similar questions come up often on many of the forums. Harvest always gets "is home canning cost effective" and "can you really save money", etc. questions. And Veggie gardening gets "How much money can I save with growing a garden" and does "growing a garden make financial sense" (linked it below), and "why spend all my time gardening when I can go to the store", etc. questions. And so on. Most every forum has at least one or two similar discussions each year. And the one point that consistently comes out of those discussions - aside from the fact that there is no way to accurately do it much less place an accurate value on the returns - is that the money, the costs, and the costs vs. the produce obtained isn't the issue. Those are not the reason most folks garden and most find it totally irrelevant. But it seems it is only the non-gardeners or accountants that have trouble relating to that fact. :) The important issues for most are the far better quality of the food produced and the enjoyment gardeners get out of the process. There are nutritional issues, commercial food-safety issues, as well as save-the-American-gardener debates that come up some times. But it always boils down something along the line of "no, I don't keep track of the costs involved because they aren't what matters to me". Sure folks can relate major expenses like fencing, a tiller, etc. but the day-to-day costs? Nope. We have a greenhouse business - garden plants for sale - as well as gardens for our own use. Sure I keep books on the greenhouse and can detail how much I spend on seeds, containers, potting mixes, fertilizers, water, heat, electricity, transportation, etc. etc. etc. Could or would I want to do that for my home gardens too? Not in this life. Why take all the enjoyment out if it? So I guess my question would be why does DW want you to do this? What can it prove or disprove? Is she trying to prove it is a waste of time? No way IMO but only you can decide that. That it costs more than just buying food? Initially it very well may. 10 years from now, especially given the rising costs in food, it could well be mandatory. What will be gained from doing so besides a lot of paper work and so time better spent in the garden? And how would you plan to go about doing it? Those are the questions that never seem to get answered. Just some thoughts to consider. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: What crops make financial sense?...See Morelow budget kitchen- IKEA or Home Depot or what?
Comments (28)When we priced the Ikea cabinets for her kitchen they where considerably more expensive than the Schrock ones and we did not have an Ikea close enough to go to see them in person. She wanted painted cabinets not thermofoil and schrock cabinets have wood drawers, dove tail construction. So for the $ they really are nice cabinets. Another line that is fairly inexpensive is Mid continent cabinets. The dealer in our area for the mid-continent is difficult to work with so we passed on them. Steph- the flooring is from lowes the allen + roth brand, pretty inexpensive and it is individual planks. It looks nice the planks had a foam backing attached to them. I have a vinyl plank flooring in my basement and I love it. I do daycare and it is very nice looking and cleans up easily. I would not hesitate to put the vinyl floor on cement....See Moregood budget sprayer for occasional home painting jobs?
Comments (17)Are you serious, Faron? Spam? Um, no. I started this thread almost a year ago, and when I happened to find a sprayer I liked, I updated it. Since you're a pro and I'm not, our criteria for what makes a good sprayer are probably different, so I won't say you're wrong. But I disagree with you, obviously. For my purposes (and I'm pretty picky), and probably for a lot of home painters' purposes, the Critter is awesome. And for $50 it's hard to go wrong, even if it doesn't end up meeting someone's expectations....See MoreNew home, want to lighten up kitchen on a budget
Comments (21)I'd leave the cabinets alone right now not because they're OK but because you want to eventually remodel and painting is NOT an easy quick fix. It's a ton of tedious work for the homeowner with probably poor results and/or $$$ to have it done professionally. A DIY paint job can result in textural probs, paint wearing off, cracking within a year or so depending upon the finish, the prep, the products used and the technique/exp employed. I've done my share of painting cabs including our current one and I'm OK with it but it's not a pro finish so I try hard not to stare too hard! I will say I've never painted NICE cabs such as yours and I probably wouldn't. We wanted to gut our current kitchen but a new heating system and several other more critcal redos bounced it out of our top 5 projects so we settled for DIY new cabinet doors/drawers and paint. My second comment is based on the fact you just moved in. You're going through the normal "I want to" thing we all go through initially after moving in. Your wife is in the dream stage because she's already thinking of gold rose hardware...lol. But, please take it from someone who's lived in and remodeled/gutted 6 homes. If possible I have never redone a kitchen or made major paint decisions in the first year of living anywhere and it's always, ALWAYS been the right decision (unless I throw some white paint on a crazy color wall) What I think intially is much different one year later and a lot of that has to do with exposure. Do you realize right now, that June is the darkest this kitchen will appear? It's the summer solstice and that means the sun is high...therefore not coming in the windows as much as when it's lower. Decidious trees will also shade the house. Concentrate on the cosmetic and take some of the advice already given re: lighting, the backsplash perhaps (I wouldn't bother to replace with tile though...go cheaper) We supplemented our undercab lighting with IKEA inexpensive LED tape lights that plug in so you might try that first if there's none currently. And congrats!...See Morevirgilcarter
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