Low Budget Old Kitchen Make Over
I posted last year about how to update my old kitchen and received lots of good advice. Here is the old post (http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3909680/suggestions-needed-on-updating-our-old-kitchen)
I took the advice in consideration and also based on our own need, our kitchen project is finally done. Here is how it looks now:
Total Cost about $8500 (including powder room next to the kitchen)
Except electrical ($2375) and granite countertop (58sf, $2900), rest of works including cutting cabinet for dishwasher, making new cabinets to match existing cabinets, gel stain cabinets, adding crown molding, laying new hardwood floor, tiling glass backsplash, painting wall and trims, installing dishwasher and other plumbing works are all done by my husband and me.
The end result is quite satisfactory.
Two explanations:
1. We didn't take the advice to add dishwasher on the left side of sink, just to make the cutting cabinet and piping easier for us to work with. The space between the sink and stove is quite large and I don't feel too inconvenient. Instead, the single lower cabinet next to the drawers on the left side of sink was converted to a pull out trash cabinet. It works perfectly in that location.
2. We didn't keep the scallop trim as many suggested. Because we feel the Java (espresso) stain and hardware we used on our cabinets is a bit on the modern side, the curved trim didn't match that decor.
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Thank you all for your kind comments! We spent about 3 months for this project. We never did big project like this before, so it was a learning process as well. Lots of web-searching and youtube-watching. :P My husband did most messy, hard work, my main role was planning and shopping for the new lights, tiles, hardware etc. and also giving him a hand when he needed and cheering him up when he was tired :P. I did stain all the cabinets by myself (he is not very patient and detailed).
The granite countertop is River White. We were lucky that we found a good fabricator with reasonable price and the slab we liked.
The total cost includes dishwasher (around $600 on sale) and range hood ($300). Stove and refrigerator we bought earlier.
- 9 years ago
Yeah, we really liked the slab. Here is more pictures of the counter under natural light.
9 years ago
mark_rachel