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I waited almost 5 years, only half intentionally, and my plans changed and solidified, and I saved up money. It was the best thing I could have done. Waiting a little might is not a bad thing at all. My 40s cabinets are like that too. I don't know how well they'd move, since there's nothing to keep them "square" while they're being taken down and moved around. But that's a question for a carpenter. You need to find one who is really invested in giving you what YOU want: informing you of the likely outcomes, good and bad, giving you his honest opinion, that you feel you can trust. I'm lucky that I have that with my contractor. Most of the time he knows I'd prefer to fix something old, even if it may not look perfect, or might be too fragile for some of the families on this site. But he will tell me if something is a bad idea, and when he does, I definitely listen. But some workers just want things easy, or don't have the knowledge to deal with an old house, or know they're going to slave for hours at their craft making something fit and then the homeowner is going to come home and say "But it's 1/8th of an inch off! That's totally unacceptable! Just put in a new one!" I think, for you, it starts with figuring out what you really WANT, and I get the feeling you're not quite there yet. As I see it: You can restore the salvageable 30s kitchen (little reconfiguration, cheapest option), recreate the 30s look with all/mostly modern components (some reconfiguration, middle cost, may exceed budget), start fresh with a new design with the very best of the 30s elements (some reconfiguration/more cost, likely to exceed $10K budget). Or another solution. In the end, the only opinion that matters is your own. Trust your gut.

While I was driving today I was thinking about your post and I realized I was not at my best witts last night when I responded to your post feeling like you were deciding to quickly to pay a high price for the counter and sacrifice the quality of the cabinets. Your project is expensive..... I mentioned before I have a set of cabinets on order with Bridgewood where I did frameless base cabinets and framed wall and tall cabinets. More then half of all the cabinets are custom sized. There are no fillers any where in the kitchen. I even custom sized the lower drawer on the double oven cabinet to be 16" deep at the customers request. I have added Tray dividers to multiple cabinets at their request. All the cabinets with exposed ends of runs have integrated end panels which are much higher end then the ship loose door panel method. There are 2 wainscott panels totaling 11' long. That means the backs of the island and peninsula has matching door panels which are built as one peice. We did mostly drawer cabinets of 4,3, or 2 drawers per cabinet. We did some full height door base cabinets with adjustable roll out trays that allow for the bulky items like mixers to have a place to go. All the roll out trays like that are blumotion tandem full extension soft closing guides. There is a crown on the top of the 42" wall cabinets (9' ceiling they did not want to go all the way up) and light rail on the bottom. All wainscott panels are trimed with matching baseboard molding. The cabinets are all plywood with blumotion drawers and doors. It is custom by any strectch of the imagination.... Here is my point with that background. Everyone on here seems to think you are getting a awesome cabinet for a low price. I do not doubt they make nice cabinets. I realized today that I am not convinced you are getting a great price. My bridgewood kitchen requires 3 slabs of granite to do the countertops. There is 153 installed sqft. My customer picked out Typhoon Bordeaux. Anyone familar with that knows most people would say it is beyond beautiful. The sink is included, a goose neck faucet is included, and ogee edge (which is around 75 lineal feet) is included for 6,500. Her countertop is nearly 4 times the size of yours. Typhoon Bordeaux is not the most expensive color but it is by no means cheap either. Out side of that countertop I also have a 30 x 96 double oven and a 30 x 96 pantry with adjustable (no tools required) full extension blumotion soft closing roll out trays. The kitchen is good size. Cherry is an up charge of 10%. Maple with paint and glaze is an up charge of 23% so if you are going paint and glaze it would be a higher price to be a fair comparision. They went with cherry without glaze. They purchased the cabinets with more then half the list being custom sized to the 1/16" of an inch for 21,700 with countertop surface area approx 4 times the size of yours. There are no elevated walls with aditional tops to skew the countertop surface area relative to the cabinets. The surface area of the countertop is also the surface area of the base cabinets. I also gave them free painted white with glaze 42" high wall cabinets for their laundry room complete with crown molding and light rail for free. I also gave her free handles and cabinet hardware from Jeffry R Alexander which is not cheap junk by any means. Your purchase price without a better countertop quote is approx 14,000 for 40 square feet of work space. My customers is 28,200. My customer is paying twice as much as you are considering but has 4 times the work space plus the free laundry room. I did the countertop at cost as stated before. After paying for my building ( I rent the showroom section of a building from Elegant Marble who charges me 7.5% of my taxable sales as a monthly rent. I put in the displays and they put in the counters. I have about 1/3 the displays I will ultimatley have. Doing this on your own is very hard to do and make enough to pay for all your displays up front. After paying for the free laundry cabinets the hardware, and the building rent I make about 5,000. I do not feel I ripped them off in any way and I did good on the sale. To me it was a win win all things considered. I am not convinced you have found a win win yet. Now also to be fair with larger kitchens there is more profits to work miracles with. A kitchen your size with painted finish would not be quite as good a deal. But none the less I am convinced you are not getting a deal that is as good as everyone on here is leading you to believe. For anyone reading this.... I am not trying to sell her anything. If you look up any of my posts I am the most transparent person who posts now and then on garden web who is in the dealer side of the issue. I get emails from people now and then who ask me questions. I have sent designs and quotes to people from Garden web to give people 2nd opinions on fair costs where they felt they were un able to figure out if they were being treated fairly by the companies giving quotes. I enjoy the banter of garden web and learn the mindset of the buyer in ways from here I do not get from people I meet in person. People ask me by email now and then to give quotes on cabinets that are RTA. I am not willing to mess with sending cabinets out of my area for ultra low profits to match what sites are doing with volume. I do not want the headaches of people assembling things and something goes wrong and they want replacement cabinets. It is not worth the hassle. I always send them because people ask. I do not expect to ever sell anything to anyone here it is not my purpose in posting. I am just giving my opinions in a manner I believe no one else does on here to just be different. Not better or worse then the next person just another point of view.

You asked for the number of cabinets so here goes: On the sink wall starting at the corner you need a 36" corner cabinet, a 36" sink base, the dishwasher, a 9" tray base and then the fridge. On the range wall you can figure on the 36" corner cabinet, a 24" 4-drawer base for utensils and maybe plastic bags and wraps; a 36" 3-drawer base for pots and pans; a 24" desk space and a 21" drawer base for office-type storage. A pendant light over the desk area would be nice. In the island I'd put a 30" drawer base or cabinet with pull-out trays and the cabinet for the microwave. Pendants over this, too. On the pantry: select your cabinet style and price the pantry options in that style. Since this is an open floorplan, you want everything to match. Compare that to the price for a pantry closet your contractor would build, including shelves and specific storage places for things like potatoes etc. Having said all that, it's not going to help you figure out your price. Like Cook's Kitchen said, get with a local kitchen designer, even if you have to start at Lowe's. You'll get a basic kitchen design and some pictures that will reveal what the limitations and possibilities are. Don't go with the first quote you get, shop around. Most KDs won't go by another designer's measurements; they'll want to get in the house and take their own. Comparing different designs will be like comparing apples to oranges. Select the one that gives you what you want for a price you can afford. I've been in your shoes before and I'm planning my own kitchen remodel right now, even though it's a year off at least. Good luck!