Rather than tag onto Dan's original email on the subject, I thought I
would just start over.
What do you folks expect to pay for a kitchen remodel. I have had
clients who spent over $100K renovating their kitchens. I gather it is
not difficult to spend at least $50K as friends did that a few years back.
I am poor and frugal. I built my own. It took quite a while - mostly
because we worked on the cabinets in winters and stopped in summers and
made more changes along the way. All told, I don't think we spent more
than about $5K. They are solid oak and plywood. I think you could park a
truck on the counter without crushing them and the uppers are supporting
hundreds of pounds of dishes. There are no doors on the bottom cabinets
apart from 2 under the sink. All the rest of the bottom cabinets have
drawers. The uppers all have water glass inset into the doors. We did
not go high end on the counter tops. We debated about doing Corion (sp?)
but my wife was concerned that she might tire of the colour so we went
with fairly basic counter tops on the assumption that it would be easier
to justify replacement if she decided she wanted something different.
That is the only place where there is particle board - under the formica
or whatever you prefer to call it.They may look a bit dated by current
standards but have not caused much trouble in about 15 years. A few of
the European style hinges have had to be replaced but that is about it.
They are unfortunately not quite finished but that has ceased to be a
priority. I need to cover the toe kick with oak and to put a trim at the
ceiling (the upper cabinets go all the way to the ceiling). They are
also getting to the point where they should have a bit more varnish
applied. We used water based varnish and I do not think it is quite a
hardy as the old polyurethane. It is a bit more easy to tolerate while
coating them as it does not have much odor.
RB
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