Flow's Fantastic Fixer-Upper

Looks good!

 

Depending on the countertops....

With granite/marble/quartz/stone of some kind, I'll say around $16,000.

With just a laminate type countertop, I'll go around 10-$12,000.

Just a rough guess. Not sure how the company that is doing them assembles their box.

I also assume you're going with soft-closing sliders/hinges.

 

I'm not a big fan of painted. Not sure if I mentioned this, and I'm to lazy to go check, but if you live in a humid environment, and can't really control the humidity of your home that much, chances are painted cabinet doors tend to show cracks as the wood expands/contracts with the humid/dry seasons.

We have actually started airbrush staining the part of the door where the panel meets the outside rail to prevent problems when the doors shrink/expand. I'm not an expert by any means, but if you stain or go with clear coat, the wood tends to absorb the stain/lacquer much better if the manufacturer does their sanding right, whereas with paint it always seems like they just apply a top layer, and not much of it is absorbed into the wood.

With the sanding I mean if you sand until the grains are exposed and the wood is super smooth you tend to seal it off, and it can't absorb whatever stain/lacquer or even paint that you apply. You can't tell the difference at the time when the kitchen is made and installed, but the longevity of the doors in terms of keeping their color/shade/texture becomes a serious problem in the long run. Just something to look out for.

What are you doing in terms of hardware in the cabinets and such? Any rollout garbages, spice racks? I would recommend pullouts in the pantry, as opposed to one of those fancy pantry type spiceracks that pull out when you open the door. The pullouts, which basically amount to 4-6 drawers 'built' into the pantry are much more practical.

Just something to think about.

 

This conversation is so far beyond my meager kitchen renovation that I can't even see it from here.

 

That's what we have.

We are going to put in a pullout for that corner, no lazy Suzan.

 

Isn't the pullout a lot more expensive?

 

We can save room in that corner by going with a blind corner and pull out, over a lazy Susan.

It's not the cost that has us going way from frameless it just happened. We had to go with someone else to build the cabinets and so forth.

 

Ah okay. Yeah the blind corner would save room. There is some pretty fantastic hardware that can be used in the blind corner as well. Lots of people go with them.

We call them the 'magic corner' because they work so magically well.

 

How is it going?

 

The concrete floors are done, rooms are being steadily painted, with carpet coming to the bedrooms. I put in new toilets the other day, and I'll start wiring can lights this afternoon. The waiting game begins now, waiting on new windows, new cabinets and the contractor to start work on the master bed/bath.