I too had a major problem with Rose Furniture.I had ordered from them once before,an armoir with no problems. I had ordered 2 dressers & 2 desks for my daughters. The trucking company called with their date & delivery fee. Rose Furniture was off by $120.00 (started to feel leary already) The Friday before my Sunday delivery, the trucking co. left a message that 1 of the dressers was too damaged to be delivered. 2 e-mails & 3 frantic calls to Rose Furniture, I was unable to talk to anyone from Rose F. When the truck arrived at my home, I decided to deduct the entire price of the dresser from the bill and told them they had no choice but to take a personal check from me(keep in mind they only take cashiers checks)As I inspected the rest of the furniture, the dresser mirror was cracked, along with the wood molding around it. I was told they would send someone to fix it, ah..no, I deducted the entire price off the bill also and told them to retun it to Rose. I had gotten 2 out of 4 pieces. Monday a.m they called and "reminded" me about our contract, they would fix the furniture & it would be 6-8 wks.I told them keep it, I did not order broken furniture & we'll call it even, I then recieved the NASTIEST e-mail from my salesgirl, & told me I had to pay them 30% restocking fee, I in turn told her to try to get it, Rose does not take credit cards, & they should riemburse me for the delivery fee.This very nice woman from Rose continued to call me for 2 wks, she wanted to know how she could accomadate me, I thanked her for always being very pleasent & helpful, but also suggested they should take at least 200.00 off the bill, I never heard from them again! As it turned out, I ordered the pieces from a family owned buisness, & saved 150.00!!!! I do not reccomend ordering furniture from NC. I have found the prices may be slightly lower, but they get you with tax, gas and delivery fee. It is no longer a bargain! Oh yeah, sorry this was so long

I am more convinced of my advice to be careful of what you pay the contractors after reading your break down. Be savvy with what you spend. Just for fun go to Home Depot or Lowes and figure out the cost of the insulation if you buy off their shelf. Masco owned insultaion companies that provide the insulation material and install it will do it for less than than the porduct cost at the big box store. Normally around $1.50 to $1.75 a square foot of the insulated surface in R13(2x4 ext wall). Do the math if you insulated all 4 walls of your kitchen you should be paying $552 for the entire room not including the celing. I am guessing you are not insuling all 4 walls of your kitchen. Maybe you sound proofing your walls. I bet you would have mentioned that as you are on top of what is going into your project. Again please do not think I am trying to discourage you or be holier than thou I am trying to give real world examples of my past expeirence. Example 2 - I built a 3 bed / 2 bath 1200 finished sqft house with no garage on a poured concrete walk out basement foundation with 8 foot ceilings using no steel columns in the basement I might add. I designed the house and had a panel company build me the floor, walls, and roof systems as a delivered package. I had the floor system built as open web floor trusees that clear spaned the entire basement there are no center support beams or steel posts in the entire basement. I built this house about 5 years ago with a Nephew for a family from my church. I did that entire house including site work, well and septic systems, foundation all lablor and materials for $120,000. It took my nephew and I by ourselves 4 months to do it. I had a plumber as a sub and a HVAC sub. My nephew and I split $30k for the labor to build the house. I understand that your wall plate is either rotted from water or termite damaged. It should not take more than a day for 3 guys to build a temp wall to hold the upper sturcture up while you replace the plate assuming the affected area is only in the area of the kitchen as described. They are charging you a lot of your hard earned or borrowed money. Just be carefull. Any good 3-5 man crew should have your kitchen done in 3 weeks tops. One of the things that makes the projects go much longer is that each sub wants the space to themselves while they are working there. I see the posts like yours on here and think to myself how some contractor is loving life working for the poster. It seems people are really savy on buying the caibinets tops and similar items but just get taken to the cleaners on the labor and the projects take way to long. I did a buy fix sell 3/2 home with garage and basement and gutted both baths to the block walls same with the kitchen, added a plumbing for a future full bath in the basement requiring to repipe the entire house to bring it to current building codes for plumbing vents, replaced the water heater, tore out a retaining wall for the basement stairs that was caved in replaced all the windows to double hung vinyl with low e and argon filed with full screens in the house, put in new stainless hot point appliances uba tuba granite at $40/sqft paid way to much for it. Added recessed light and undermount lights, new garage disposal, 1st floor was all hadwood flooring sanded and re finished all floors, re tiled baths, re land scaped with new foundation plantings the entire house with mulch, Added recessed lighting in the living room. Tore out a 70's style glue up ceiling like mini drop ceiling in the family room in the basement. Put up new drywall ceilling with recessed lights in the family room in the basement. Put in new builder grade carpet through out the basement. I added crown molding in all living areas of the house. I replace all electrical devices in the house including all other light fixtres interior and exterior. I did that in 3 weeks using a 4 man crew that cost me $700 for a 10 hour day. My total cost with labor and materails for the whole house was $32,500 It can be done. Again not trying to beat you up but give you examples of there are ways to keep your hard earned money with out giving it away! In my store I offer 150 different stock to entry level semi custom cabints to chose from with 10 -level 1 granite colors, removal of old kitchen, installtion of new kitchen and appliances, with your choice of 30-42" wall cabinets including crown and light rails, also painting the kitchen area when done for $7,000-$10,500 for everything. Flooring would be extra if needed. I make about $3,000 and I use a licensed contractor to actually perform the work for me under my daily onsite supervision. The cabinet style list to chose from even has 6 different inset flat and raised panel cabinets. 10 different Linen whites with glazes the list goes on and on. Now granted your cabinets will be from a much more talented cabint maker than these prgram as it is intended for those that do not have budgets as high as yours. I do not believe the regional cost differnces matter her to great differences. Here is why, that house I fixed up and the one I built from scratch were both in Loudoun County Va in Northern Va where I used to reside. Loudoun and its county to the East, Fairfax, have the highest income per household rates, approx $180k per household, in the nation. It is every bit as expensive there as it is in San Fransico. Be smart and be careful with your money. I hope your kitchen becomes all you hoped it would be.

boxerpups, thanks for your info. I have to say that your kitchen is one of the first ones I saw, and I just love it so much! I am still going back and forth, but my current thinking is that I found that a sears outlet near us has tons of inventory. They have the bosch 50 floor model (seems to be the same size as their 800 series, but doesn't have a wine rack or door alarm but does have a child lock) for $1265. They have a kitchenaid that sounded really nice too for around $1300, but it's too tall for my existing cabinets and if I'd like to avoid moving them if possible. So I think the bosch in the kitchen, and then something in the basement, either getting a smaller top freezer (from the outlet or craigslist) or trying to fit our monster down there will work for us. I will likely go with the smaller one. Thanks so much for listening to me! My dh has officially told me to stop talking about refrigerators and says I am starting to sound like our 4 yr old daughter (who has autism and is particularly stuck right now talking about beds in hotels all the time)....that's probably funnier to us than how it sounds typed out. ; )

Justerrilynn, we had a similar incident early on. My husband's coworker tested positive, and the person from whom she believes she was infected died in April from the virus. He was a policeman. I hope your husband, his coworker (and you!) are all OK. That set a tone for my family. We self-quarantined strictly for 2 weeks, and since then have taken the attitude that masks and distancing are our responsibility. We are all healthy, do not have medical issues, and are not considered high risk. (Me, perhaps... by age but I don't have any conditions.) If we get or have had the virus, we would likely recover. But if "essential" workers who serve me food, bag my groceries, etc. all are required to wear masks, then I'm going to wear one, too. Just out of decency and respect. People can call me a sheep or fear monger or whatever term they're using to justify their own actions. My young adult kids have been socializing with friends outdoors, and I'm not always there to monitor them. But I've at least set an example and hope they're being mindful. (I believe they are, and we talk about it.) Moving forward, I will fully support businesses who enforce their employees and customers to wear mask and practice safety measures. I have been especially pleased with Costco, Trader Joe's, Aldi and a local meat market--which has been going above and beyond despite some of the clientele who I suspect would otherwise choose not to abide. There are many businesses, though, that I'll stay away from permanently. Simply because in observing their measures, it's difficult to tell what phase we are in because so little is being enforced. (And this applies to some friends and acquaintances, too, unfortunately.)