Remodel all at once or on phases?
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Comments (4)Livin, I am doing a pool reno too. Quotes from 9k all the way up to 19k! Yikes! I was looking to do pretty much the same as you, new tile, pebble, deck + a pentair salt system, etc. My job started TODAY! They came to chip out at 7:30am. In the end I chose to keep the coping tile (white), change out the waterline tile, NPT mini pebble, new light, pentair SCG, get rid of in floor system & switch to wall returns (still not sure about this decision) & I am holding off on the decking for now. My pool is a rectangle, diving, about 10 ft deep. All of this for just a hair under 9k. I am also looking to do a bench in the deep end as aside job, depending on the price, even with that though I will be under 10k, my absolute budget. I wasn't willing to give up my counter tops for the pool. ;-) Plus, I will have some left for landscape. My PB worked with me on my budget, gave me a discoiunt on the mini-pebble & the salt system & I am saving some of the labor by doing the digging for the system & piping DIY. It pays to have a plumber in the family. :)...See Moresmall kitchen - finalizing layout once and for all
Comments (14)Lavender Lass - Thanks for chiming in, at work no less. This cheap-o free and easy design software doesn't allow me to play with the hardware placement. The PLAN is to have long horizontal pulls across the uppers and lowers both. With small ones where they make sense. In fact, my top contender is the one shown with the green cabinets in the OP. And, yes, the doors will open the opposite directions at several key points than is shown in my renderings... To both LL and RoRO, and anyone else chiming in for that matter!, I had a big long post a while back about what to do with uppers with the backsplash window. That conversation convinced me to rethink the plan to bump up the cabinets or have glass cabinets on that wall to embrace the illusion of the backsplash window. I'm trying to make myself to not go backwards and do another circle on the issue. We'll see how that goes! We'll have somewhere between 17-20" between counter and upper cabinets and I'll go with a lower profile sink of some kind. I'm short so I don't want the uppers too high (plus we have short ceilings), but I totally get the point you are making. It's tricky to find the right answers for this BS window. For sure, whatever I do will have drawbacks and not please everyone... We put the BS window in when we were doing the outside for an energy audit program 2 years ago and had to guess at everything as we had no kitchen plans. Now I just have to make it work... Roho, thanks for the enthusiasm! I'm needing a little love right now! LOL Just to be clear, do you like the original layout or the revised options to include uppers on the range wall, minimize sink size, add more drawers, etc? Are you saying the counters stained or the sinks with the zero radius? I'm not sure I am understanding... For the fridge, I"m not sold on french doors- just the bottom freezer drawer. If I could find a 30-33" option that had the interior options we wanted in a CD, I'd go for it. Just haven't found it yet... We'll do some kind of paneling around the peninsula seating. Undecided about how that is going to end up looking, but it will look finished. We'll probably leave the wall part (bump out) drywall for now and consider various options down the road, including paneling or wallpaper or tile. We might look at something we can include into the hallway there. But, that's getting ahead of myself with finishes and materials and I have got to make myself stay on layout! LOL I'm glad to hear you liked your 12" pantries. Mine won't be in such a convenient place, but it's something! If we end up finding a place to put one of those neat ones tucked into drywall, it will probably end up much more narrow as the only place for it would be on the LR wall next to the peninsula and I don't want it interfering with the walkway/sense of feeling open. I should post some of my "during" pictures someday. It's been quite a journey so far! For pendants at the peninsula counter, all I want is something shiny to cast sparkley light. It won't work well for task lighting, so we'll have another row of can lights down the peninsula on the working side of the kitchen, I think. I just want 2-3 little mini-pendants in clear glass or crystal that won't really catch the eye much until they are on at night, acting more as accent lighting. The light I showed a pic of will be the drum pendant over the DR table area. I met with some lighting consultants this weekend, and also posted on GW's lighting forum. So, hopefully that is getting close to nailed down......See MoreKitchen Remodel - in early phases - looking for layout suggestions!
Comments (12)Thank you for your comments!. Right now the island is about 3'x5' with 36 inches all the way around it. I know this is smaller than most would desire - but it hasn't been a problem for us. I would certainly consider a range vice a wall oven. The issue i have with it being on the wall where the oven is now is that my cook/prep area would be mostly behind me, and even then - its the narrow side of the island. It might work - i'm just not 100% sold on that yet. I thought about the fridge next to the pantry - but the biggest issue there is that i only have 24 inches of depth - and thus the fridge will stick out into the walkway. I thought about a counter depth fridge, but i only have 36 inches to work with there - and the reduction in fridge space would be a non-starter (its always PACKED!) Removing the wall oven is certainly something we're looking at to maximize counter space. One thought i got from your comment is maybe splitting up the cooktop on the exterior wall and then putting the oven under counter next to the pantry. Something like this is an option i was considering....See MoreHow to phase a remodel
Comments (12)Just to play devil's advocate here: I moved the stairs in my 1920s bungalow in a phased remodel. It was neither cheap nor easy, but the end result was worth it. (The previous stairs were much steeper than allowed by modern code, plus they hogged the center of the second story.) I started the project by hiring an architect to draw plans of both first and second story, including structural elements that would have to be added. Then I got a bid for the first phase - moving the stairs, tearing the roof off the second story, and rebuilding the second story with an additional bedroom and bath as well as conversion from hot water baseboards to in-floor radiant heat. I got a building permit for the entire project and our local inspectors signed off on each distinct phase of the project. Then we did phase 1. It was 2012. At the end of that phase, the second story and the new stairway were fully functional and the layout of the second story was much more spacious because there was no longer a stairway and landing in the middle of everything. The new stairway went above the stairs to our basement, in a mudroom that previously was only one story. The first story also still contained the old stairway, which was located in the center of the house and was covered/hidden until we were ready to do the kitchen. In 2017, with another bid in hand for phase 2, we started the kitchen reno (including eliminating the old stairway to nowhere and adding that space as a pantry wall in our new kitchen layout). Because I was making custom cabinets myself (which I don't recommend unless you are very skilled and enjoy the process), we began the rebuild with only base cabinets because that's how much of the cabinetry I could produce and store at one time. Then I added an upper cabinet as each one was finished. At the end, our electrician came back to finish the undercabinet lighting (which was already wired into walls) and a tile craftsman did our backsplash. I'm very happy that we moved the stairs to get a safer stairway that is now up to code, AND we assimilated the old stairway space into our kitchen for a larger and more functional layout. The total cost was approximately the same as the price we paid for the house. In our case, it was worth it because the rest of the house has charm and a decent layout, and we love the location (large property with mature trees on a river). In short, it's very expensive and challenging, and doing it in phases stretches out the challenges - which can be a double-edged sword (time to rest/relax in between, but also more total time in chaos). My DH acted as GC for the first phase, and I was point-of-contact with a hired GC for the second phase. Having one of us acting as GC was much more stressful than hiring a GC. At one point, I told DH that if X wasn't done that week, I'd fire the contractor and then fire the GC (DH) - fortunately it didn't come to that! You have a big decision. Good luck....See Moresjhockeyfan325
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