Need help with a low budget kitchen reno (photos included)
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Need (very)low-budget dining/living area help
Comments (16)FLOOR - bound carpet remnant. I just bought one yesterday for my eat-in kitchen. It's about 6x8 and I paid $24 for it. I really want a seagrass mat in there, but it's under our everyday table and I have a 3 y/o... 'nough said. I also have bound carpet in our temporary home office, 10x12 and I paid $82 for it. Go to the big hardware store, most have bound remnants in their rug section. It's WAY cheaper than buying a scrap and having it bound. (Big one is from Lowe's, small one is from Menard's.) WINDOWS: My first choice would be a single bamboo shade for the window, same material as the ones in the family room. If you have acess to more red fabric you can make panels to flank the shade. Or you can repurpose the fabric into a patched table runner or placemats or something so you can keep it in the room. My personal preference is all blinds in an open area are contiguous. Same with panels, tho. FAN: I'd go with a chandelier to replace the ceiling fan IF you could center the table under it. (The table looks like it's to the right). Then I'd get an old table top fan and use when a fan was needed. Maybe something like this (I bought the one pictured, or something identical, on clearance for $8 so if you watch, they can be had on tight budgets): OK I previewed so now I can't go back to your pic and suggest a place/foundation for the fan, but... I grew up in a house that had two ceiling fans in the eat-in kitchen -- don't ask me why -- and always hated it so it's easy for me to suggest getting rid of it. :)...See MoreHELP-need to shave 10k from my reno budget:(
Comments (18)Thanks for all of your ideas. Spoke to the powers that be and we will split the cost of the basement "situation". This is the perfect property for us and we plan on this being our final move. I am doing all of the coordinating of work myself. We got an excellent deal on custom cabinets that will be built by the Mennonites in our area. (Their quality and price CAN'T be beat! I didn't hire anyone to give me ideas or plan my new layout (as you can probably tell:( ). I will be doing my own removing of wallpaper and painting myself. We will hold off on doing anything in the ugly bathrooms for now. I have been doing a lot of running around today and found a place that has the Cambria countertop that I want at a cheaper rate (savings $1500.!) Shopped around some more for the flooring and found someone who will do the installation of the floor at a reduced rate (savings $0.65 per square foot) Home Depot has the exact same flooring for $3.29 instead of the $5.50 at the flooring store (savings of $2.21 per square foot!) I looked on-line and found some lighting at Ikea that could work (several hundred dollars savings). I will wait for the backsplash for now and will wait for a sale for my other appliances. I think I really would regret not putting in all of that extra counter space and I have found several thousand dollars by choosing those things mentioned above. This will be my 2nd kitchen reno and I know what I don't want, but am not as certain as to what I do want. I do want the wall removed and floor done before I move in because I don't want to live through that mess again!! Now I have to figure out how I'm going to solve the problem of removing the load-bearing wall:( Thanks so much for all of your ideas....See MoreFinished kitchen: DIY Ikea & mexican tile, low budget
Comments (41)Thanks, all! Nosoccermom, we did not paint the doors. We were concerned about that pinkish tint, too, but decided we could always paint in the future if we hated them as they are after installation. As it turns out, they are definitely an off-white, but the pink seems to depend completely on lighting. In natural and direct light, they are warm white but not pink. In dim light, they do take on that pinkish look. We have the white fridge right next to the cabinets, which you can see in a photo I posted above, and in another area there are cabinets adjacent to wainscoting painted with BM simply white. You can certainly see the difference in those locations, but we don't find it jarring. Those spots are the areas where the pinkish tone is most prominent in dim light, though. We didn't replace the fridge, since the old one still works fine, and we are happy enough with the way it looks with the cabinets that we will probably go with white again when this one does need to be replaced. So, I would say to anyone considering these doors, you have to bring a sample home and see how it looks in your home with your lighting to really know how it will look....See MoreKitchen reno - need help maximizing space and function! (Help?!)
Comments (11)benjesbride - the house is a typical city "shotgun" layout - each room is the width of the house and leads to the next w/o and halls, etc. There is an enclosed porch = office, living room, dining room, then the kitchen is at the rear of the house. We can add some room to the kitchen from that end if we take space away from the DR, but cant actually change its location. mama goose_gw zn6OH - I haven't figured out appliances at all. I was planning to just buy the most affordable pieces that come recommended here : ) The hood and range is on an interior wall separating the kitchen and the dining room. I think we probably could reverse the swing on the basement door. What benefit would that add? blfenton - The window across from the range faces south, and the one over the sink faces south west. The two by the table face southeast, however they look out to the neighboring house, which is barely 6 feet away. sena01 - never thought to alter the space in front of that long hall! A pantry would be amazing. I didn't think I could get one in, but was hoping increasing the number of top cabinets would give me enough storage. Another idea I had was to take the exterior landing (upper right) and enclose that so I could add more footage to the kitchen and change the point of entry. Just not sure if I would be gaining enough space to warrant the cost of adding an extension. I was planning to increase the opening leading in from the dining room, but worry that would make it even harder to maximize space. The funny thing is that this kitchen is quite literally double the size of our last two, but somehow doesn't feel as though it can look or feel spacious due to the doors and window placements. Also, wondering what steps to take first? Architect, KD, GC? Will the architect understand kitchen function? If I go to the KD first, will that person have enough knowledge of structural concerns in order to take moving walls, existing gas lines, etc into consideration? Do I see a GC to price out the cost of changes with moving walls and adding an extension? Hmph - no idea!...See Moreannievibes
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