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[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Ramster

...The wife has me going to look at kitchens. Nothing too seriously expensive she says... just some new cabinets, counter top and sink, basically everything.

I just put the down payment on my cabinets. Maybe I'll PM you the total so you can start before you even go & look at sinks & counters

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I just put the down payment on my cabinets. Maybe I'll PM you the total so you can start before you even go & look at sinks & counters

Damn that was a long morning but an eye opener even for the wife. Very expensive!

We want to do the kitchen for 2 reasons,. The kitchen is old and looks like crap and we want to buy a new house next summer so a new kitchen would improve the resale value greatly.

Thankfully being an older home it didn't seem too expensive though if you go with the white non birch/oak cabinets which is what we will do. But still add a sink, counters, trim and crap and I need to sell a few more memberships.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Ramster

... The kitchen is old and looks like crap and we want to buy a new house next summer so a new kitchen would improve the resale value greatly...

Look into that a bit. It will raise the value of you home, but will it raise it as much as you put into the new kitchen? Some people saw what we did to our old house with a new kitchen, huge deck, new floors, bar/party room etc. Sunk a lot of money into it over the 4 years we lived there & got about 1/2 of it back when we sold it.

That's one of the reasons I liked the addition that we're doing, because it's adding 600 sq ft to the house

If you're gonna redo the kitchen (might as well do the floor & paint/wallpaper) figure on $100/sq ft.