Help! Need some ways to get a $150,000 window quote lower?
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Comments (4)Do you know what you like? Have you found anything that has really grabbed you? If you're not sure what you want, I'd recommend looking through GW posts, magazines and the Internet (google or yahoo image searches) and find out what really appeals to you. Is there a color or wood you're drawn to? A countertop that you love? A picture of the perfect living room (with lots of windows, or Christmas tree, by the fireplace)? After a while, you'll notice a pattern. Certain colors or styles will keep ending up in your saved pictures. Maybe you love granite with lots of 'movement' or want something very simple and 'quiet' for a countertop. Do you love glass tile backsplashes, subway tile, beadboard, or something like stainless steel? There are so many choices, but usually, you can narrow it down, pretty quickly. Most people have their biggest challenge, if both parties don't like the same style, countertop, flooring, etc. As for order, there are all kinds of logical ways of doing it, but I always end up finding the fabric, tile, or maybe a countertop that you really love and build the room around it. Sarah Richardson's farmhouse episodes (on HGTV website) show how she picks fabrics first, uses neutral finishes and puts together some really beautiful rooms, IMHO :)...See MoreMy KD came in at $180,000 when he knew my max was $150,000-PART2
Comments (54)I think the plan holligator did has some good options. If you did like somebody suggested and put openings on each side of the stove you'd also have a view into the family room when cooking. This plan keeps traffic out of the cooking zone and all your prep and cooking happens within view of the family room. In your first plan you are stuck on the other end of the island for doing any prep and cooking with the fridge and stove where you have them so not sure how much supervising you can actually do, in that area. One other option to keep prepping and fridge out of the garage walkway would be to put the stove in the corner. As wide as it is you probably would have to move the island down a bit to have aisle space. Then move the sink down closer to the opening, and keep the fridge on its current wall, but move it away from the sidewall. Ues you loose the sink right under the window, but I think you'd love that spot for prepping/cooking and looking out the window, and at least in my kitchen I spend more time prepping and cooking than I do at the sink. I'm not seeing why the Fridge has to be on that wall as it currently is on the other wall. Seems to me it should be able to go to both....See MoreHelp me go about getting cabinet quotes
Comments (12)I did exactly that. I actually did my own layout/design and I had a drawing with measurements on it. I made appointments at the different cabinet shops who sold the brands I was interested in, and brought my drawing with me. At the appointments, they would give me information about their cabs, I'd ask all my questions, pick a wood, door style and stain color, and leave the drawing with them. Then they'd give me a quote. The drawing I shopped around didn't end up being my final design but I kept using that same drawing for price comparison purposes. Some of the shops gave me additional advice and opinions and suggestions on changes I might make, some didn't. I also got quotes based on this design from a couple of custom shops. Sometimes I just faxed them the drawing and they faxed me a quote! I'm a little bit crazy and I wanted to look at a lot of cabinets and ended up with a lot of quotes. This was partially driven by a particular feature that was a must-have for me, but that not every cab mfg offered. I don't think anyone refused me a quote or insisted that they needed to do the whole job (not just cabs). Even Expo (now no longer in business) who had a policy that they wouldn't even talk to you without a $750 deposit, agreed to give me a quote based on a spec list of cabinets and features for no charge. It also behooved me to get quotes from different shops who sold the same brand -- you'd be surprised at the difference in quotes for the same exact cabinets, same brand, etc. It pays to shop around. In the end I got Brookhaven, a brand I originally was 100% sure was too expensive for me. I got all my wants and needs, and then some. OH! and one more thing, just as a side note. Before I discovered this forum I thought the only cabinets I would be able to afford would be Kraftmaid from HD or Lowes. Boy was I wrong. Pricing came in all over the place, some super high but several were right in line with KM. Even custom guys had quotes which ranged from very low to very high and everything in between. The Brookhaven cabs I ended up with were actually about 10% higher than KM would have been, but IMHO much nicer cabinets....See Moreneed some urgent advice on window seat vs. bay window
Comments (25)Sophie - I disagree. I did not design this. I have no pretensions to being a designer and for many other aspects of the renovation we have indeed had formal plans drawn up. [I also know from experience that having an architect involved is far from a panacea .... but that's another story or stories]. For this room we knew we needed to replace the large leaky picture window and instead of replacing in kind we asked whether it would be possible and reasonable to build a window seat and what would be involved. We showed the contractor many pictures of window seats and shared the required dimension ranges (not exact dimensions) from various articles. He said a bay window would take care of it and no separate plans were required. I include the manufacturer's literature excerpt that says their Bay and Bow windows can be used as window seats. It seemed (and actually still seems) a reasonable solution. Projection Window Bay and Bow windows are like a piece of fine furniture for the façade of your home. These unique windows project from your home, creating additional space that can be used for a variety of purposes, such as a window seat or displaying meaningful trinkets. Our vinyl windows (typically double-hung or casement windows) are inserted into a solid frame to create this unique look that adds style to any home. Bay windows typically have three lites (one central fixed lite and two flanking operational lites) at 20-25-degree angles. Bow windows most commonly consist of four lites, all of which can be fixed or operational, set at 10-15 degree angles. The contractor asked us to describe what we wanted to the window vendor as well and we did. We never used the term bay window. We only talked in terms of window seat. The window vendor also did not dissuade us or suggest we needed an addition instead of a window. The window vendor spec'd the window we needed. Given that we have 8 foot ceilings - this would have been a really good place to catch that a 52" bay window wouldn't be long enough to provide a seat at a reasonable height off the floor. I think that's the key flaw here - plus someone's telling us that (unless I'm wrong) we weren't going to get the wood backing. Tomorrow should be interesting ......See MoreMark Bischak, Architect
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