Budget Reface Kitchen Reno - Pictures
familyreno
12 years ago
I've been a long time reader of this forum, but this is my first post. I ran into technical difficulty trying to get registered and it took me forever. My new kitchen doesn't compare to most I've seen on this site, but I thought I would share because I always found pictures helpful when I was deciding on granite, faucets etc. Our kitchen reno was done on a modest budget and we decided early on to reface the main part of the kitchen since the existing "L" shape was not changing. We added a new island, switched cupboards for more drawers and reworked our existing pantry to fit a bigger, albeit counterdepth, refridgerator. It's by no means 100% finished, but we are getting there.
Here are some of the details.
Granite - Giallo Ornamental
Backsplash - (my least favorite part of the kitchen but that's another story) is Olympia - Cristalo Collection Light Beige with Creama Marfil
Sink: Blanco Silgranit in cafe brown (LOVE IT!!)
Faucet: Delta (Addison)
Island Lights: Origina Canada Lighting
Floors: Laurentian Hardwood, Legacy Series in Oak Coffee
Appliances: Fridge is Samsung Counterdepth. Slide-in range, dishwasher and microwave are Kenmore from Sears
When we bought this house 12 years ago I was so thrilled with my new golden oak kitchen. We loved it so much we ripped out the linoleum flooring and added more golden oak hardwood! The cabinets were in perfect shape which was another reason we chose to reface. It was hard to rip out perfectly good hardwood but I LOVE my new dark hardwood floors. The constant dusting & sweeping is worth it.
Here are a few shots of the BEFORE:From Kitchen Reno
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That backsplash did NOT come off easy...From Kitchen Reno
During the reface:From Kitchen Reno
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And now the AFTER.From Kitchen Reno
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Very hard to get a good photo of the backsplash. I don't love it but it looks better in person than it does in photographs.From Kitchen Reno
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The drum lights over the island. I have a matching one for the kitchen table that will be put up whenever I get around to buying a kitchen table!From Kitchen Reno
Now I'm on a quest to find the perfect bar stools, kitchen table and furniture for the adjacent family room. It never ends!
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Comments (21)Wow, thank you all for your thoughtful comments! I'll try to give you better information to work with here without boring you to tears... I should have mentioned that the 10k budget does not include the flooring, which I've already set aside, but has to cover all of the cooking appliances and countertops. I started this journey desperately wanting new countertops since I spend my life cleaning grout to no avail. I hadn't considered doing the appliances first and waiting on the countertops, but will give that some serious thought. I do already have an estimate for Cambria Torquay for $4900,tax and a decent ss sink included. If we do the countertop demo ourselves, and pay in cash, we could shave off an additional $700. I did look into some laminates and corian, but was shocked to discover that they are not significantly less expensive once you factor installation in, so I ruled them out. As for granite...It's the standard in our area, but the lower priced groups just don't sing to me. I've seen beautiful white quartzites, but can't find them anywhere around here and have been told that they are far more expensive, so it comes back to Cambria vs butcherblock. The Cambria would eat up half of the kitchen budget, but if I shopped wisely for the cooking appliances, might be doable. BB from Ikea would not be as durable, but significantly cheaper if I can get somebody to cut it for a reasonable price. EAM44, to the left of the fridge (as you look into the kitchen from the nook/family room) is a bank of 4 cabs about 8 feet tall by 4 feet wide, where I currently store pantry items and small appliances. Attached to that, flanking the nook, is an integrated desk and upper cabs about 6 feet long. Wish I could throw a diagram up here, but I am hopeless in that area. Here is a bad shot that I just took: I Have thought of removing the wall oven and putting it with a speed oven or micro in those perimeter cabs, and then mofifying the cabinet under the cooktop to hold appliances. Of course, this would require a 2 stage reface to restock the funds, but definitely worth consideration. herbflavor, you are right! I never realized how many cabinets this small space has, and how top heavy they make it look. I like your idea of doing two paint colors to break it up a bit. Thinking white on top, and perhaps something like BM edgecomb grey on the bottoms and perimeter/pantry cabs. The backsplash is indeed a bit shortened ~17'. I envision white subway tile for the bs, although we'd have to see what that looks like with the countertop choice. No butcherblock around the sink, even if waterloxed? I do worry that with the mounds of wet dishes I seem to constantly generate, that I will quickly hate bb., but I've read here that people don't seem to have problems. Looking into induction ranges, dan188! beekeperswife, your kitchen is one of my inspiration kitchens, never a bore. Thanks for the painting instructions. I feel confident that I could do it reasonably well. I'll stop rambling now :) Thanks to all....See Moreevolution of a kitchen budget
Comments (55)Happened to see rmkitchen's reference to this thread and came back and reread my original post. Things change as they go along ! We have been back and forth with Ikea as we tweak our layout - they've been extremely accomodating and I highly recommend them based on the customer service - and as a result we are up around $13,500.00 for RTA cabinetry. Our appliances were just over 13 thousand. The copper countertops did not work out. The quote from the supplier kept edging upwards. We got nervous - not about the dollars but we got the impression that the vendor was either dishonest or inexperienced - neither of which we want to deal with. We ended up deciding on granite. The quotes we were getting ranged from 5 to 9 thousand dollars for twelve linear feet of counter with two cutouts and one 4 foot by 8 foot island. We ended up finding a great supplier/fabricator and bought two slabs of Cactus Boreale. The price we got for the granite, fabrication and install is just under 5 thousand. Budgeting just went right out the window when we decided to do the windows as well. We put in a pair of beautiful french doors with stained glass transoms for just under 10 thousand. At the other end of the room we are doing a window seat in a box bay window. The quote we've gotten for the window there is about 8 thousand (three double hungs with fixed transoms above - Andersen 400 windows - custom stained glass inserts, 2 fixed sidelights). Lighting is where we really lost it. The central fixture over the is (Fire Island Fan d'Lier from Savoy House) was $750.00 - not excessive considering it's a fan/light combination. We economised nicely on the entryway fixture and got that for 110 dollars. For undercabinet lighting we bought some light shelves from Ikea that can be substituted for the bottom of the cabinets we are installing. Three light shelves for 419 dollars. But we'll probably end up putting these in as the tops of the cabinets and installing Xenon undercabinet lighting for another 7 hundred. The dining area is what really put us over the top - we made an impulse buy of a small chandelier-ish fixture that had an amazing metal ceiling medallion. 800 for the light and another 800 for the medallion. Then there were the matching sconces... a steal at 200 each. Our budget was 250 for the fixture so I guess we kind of screwed up there, but the things we got are beautiful. We still need to buy our potlights - about 22 units at 50 dollars each. So far, we have spent 1400 dollars on wire and switches/dimmers/outlets. We'll expect to spend another 500 or so there. So what was supposed to cost "just over 2 thousand" is actually coming in at just under 7 thousand. We've nixed the banquette. We'll keep the window seat portion, but we're doing side cabinets and furniture instead. Cost should be around the same - 6 thousand - but we'll be able to move the furniture wherever we want it to be. Our floor still looks like it's going to cost 5 thousand - but we're vacillating now between jatoba and bamboo... We spent 1500 dollars on two sinks - one copper basin and one stainless single. We're refacing the fireplace for 1400 dollars. Cabinet pulls and "stuff" should be about 25 hundred. We have spent 3 thousand on wood and tile for the ceiling and baseboard. No change so far in the labour cost projections - we're still expecting to spend under 6 thousand there. So we're about halfway through our renovation project. We started thinking that we should be able to do it for about 40 thousand, which quickly escalated to 65 thousand once we seriously started researching. We're up over 80 thousand now. We could certainly do things more cheaply but we could also be spending way more than we are as well - so all in all not too bad - considering the only area that we actually compromised was on the cabinets. :)...See MoreBudget reno + quartz counter?
Comments (22)If you don't do the quartz for now maybe you could use the saved money to build up the cabinets to the ceiling. I think that would look really nice. I have seen this done rather easily by simply doing a hefty build up of mouldings to get up to the ceiling. It wasn't that expensive as the mouldings are all stock and they just use several different ones sometimes up to five pieces but it doesn't look like yours would take that many combined. It would eliminate that dark space above the cabinets and give a great new importance to the look of the cabinets making them seem bigger and custom. I know you would love them that way. That would really look nice in your kitchen and make a huge difference that I think you would just love. You have a charming space and it would be fun to see what a major change building up the cabinets to meet the ceiling would make. Can't wait to see what you decide to do. You are doing a great job and with the changes you are making it's going to be great. Also I have seen some mix and match natural stone combined with laminant that looks really impressive. They are purposely done that way by Wilson I think it is. Such as using (just for example) the soapstone real stone in a small area and then the rest of the space with the laminant that looks just like it or some other color. They probably do it in quartz as well. Good luck!...See MorePainting painted cabinets and other budget renos
Comments (17)I agree with Beth that the painting job on these would not be worth it. I agree with refacing with new doors and drawers. Look at Barker Cabinets for replacement doors. I would order them unfinished so that you're starting from scratch with new paint. Beth is an excellent source of information and can be a great help with advice on how to do this correctly. I'm sure spending a bit of money for new doors and drawers will certainly be a worthwhile investment. If you're considering selling the house in the near future, it's going to be a turn off to most buyers to see mismatched cabinet doors. The little bit of money you spend now will save you someone offering $20k less for your house because all they see is a gut job....See Moreshelayne
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