need help remodeling my entire house, floors are a mess any suggestions, and kitchens, I need HELP!?

Question

kitchen is very small 10' by 11' want to rip out cabinets and get other newer pre fab ones, how much $ am I going to be looking to spend, nothing fancy, small first house.

Answer 1

It doesn't have to be done all at once. Choose a place to start. The kitchen sounds like the place you're heading. Since cabinets are an important aspect to the kitchen, before replacing them take a good look at them. Older cabinets are generally made of hardwood and are a better quality than those made today. Can they be stripped, maybe even painted until you can afford to buy good quality cabinets? As for the floor, what do you have now? Is it wood, linoleum, tile? If it's wood, you can rent the sander and once you've sanded them smooth, stain and poly them. A few coats of poly (lightly sand between the coats) or if they're not in to bad a shape, buy some orange oil (sold where you find furniture polish), after washing the floor, polish it will the oil. It makes the floor look like a newly finished floor. Remodeling can be expensive, so count the cost before you start the project. Do what needs to be done first, add to it over time.

Answer 2

Kitchens are the second most expensive room in the home to remodel per square foot. Bathrooms top the list.

Usually, when you have just purchased your first home, you don't have $50-100,000 lying around for remodeling. Maybe you are the exception...But probably not.

A house with a 10x11-foot kitchen needs some fairly major remodeling to bring it into the 21st Century. With a well thought out plan, it's possible your little house could become a "keeper". Or, if you want to move up, a profitable sale.

You need to honestly ask yourself why the house you bought has not yet been remodeled? If the answers involve a less than desirable neighborhood or town, then it won't pay you much to put a lot of money into the house.

In that case you roll up your sleeves and clean what you have, and do just enough to maintain the house and minimize your costs.

If, on the other hand, the neighborhood and town are desirable, the house itself might not readily present an easy solution to its problems (i.e.: too small kitchen). In that case you will need a savvy design professional or architect to help you come up with a plan that solves the problems.

Solutions could involve 1. Opening up the kitchen to surrounding rooms, 2. Moving the kitchen, or 3. An addition - out or up.

The costs of these options depend on how extensively the house needs to be modified to achieve the desired end result.

My suggestion is to think this out. And then either do a stop-gap measure, such as replacing the kitchen floor; to get the place livable; or start planning the major remodel.

Putting a new 10x11 kitchen in, even with expensive new cabinets and appliances, countertops and flooring, is NOT going to give you a higher return on your investment when you sell this house. The only way to get that, AND a nice place to live until you do sell, is to bite the bullet as soon as you can afford it.

In my practice as a kitchen designer who specializes in the very sort of kitchen you may have, in the San Francisco Bay Area, people pay $60,000 up for an extensive kitchen remodel. Some remodels I do get up to as much as $150,000. Additions are even more.

Chances are you live in an area where remodeling costs less. Even so, the relationships in costs will be similar. You can reduce your costs a lot by becoming a DYI expert and saving the contractor's charges. Around here the savings can be 50% on a high-end project (meaning using high quality cabinets and appliances).

The cost of cabinets depends on the quality level you buy. I have an article on my web site that details the minimum quality I recommend and a cabinet comparison template that helps your turn apples and oranges into all apples.

If you want cabinets that will last a lifetime (like a house does), then you will want to read it. There is nothing worse than putting two kitchens in the same house because the first one didn't hold up.

Answer 3

A lot more than you think!!!!

I freshened up our house 3 years ago and the kitchen alone was easily $15,000. That was a new fridge., stove, microwave, cabinets and some tile. But I must admit mine is bigger. We spent $50,000 and that was frugal. On the house and yard.

Look at it and see if you could open up a wall to the dining room or the living or family room to make it feel roomier.
Then the open plan will make everything feel larger.

Measure and count your cabinets (length, height and depth) and make a list. Then go to Home Depot or Lowe's to price them out. They have them in boxes or they will order and install. You can also get the counter tops there. Make sure to measure uppers and lowers.

That would be a place to start. Good Luck.

Answer 4

it may be greater useful to do the whole floor and set the cabinetry on suited of that. this is on the grounds which you're able to be able to ultimately choose to alter the format of the kitchen and it can be quite confusing to locate matching tile in a while. additionally, you get the moisture protection of having the tile alongside the whole floor. that's what my tiler did as quickly as I redid my kitchen. It develop into greater costly, because of the fact it required greater tile. yet, once you're changing each and every of the shelves, it is relatively the greater useful thank you to circulate. If somebody replaced the kitchen floor with out changing the shelves, it needless to say is sensible to easily tile as much as the bases of the shelves. And, this is probable what got here approximately on your kitchen while that floor develop into put in.

Answer 5

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