Kitchen Remodel - Our Version of Love It or List It
We bought our home 15 years ago, with the idea of adding on and remodeling it. It was exactly what we were looking for (big yard, just outside city limits and within our price range). Although it was really small, it had a lot of potential.
We fixed it up on the outside over the years. Put in a bay window, built a front deck, pulled off the shutters, gave it a paint job, did some landscaping, etc.
But the kitchen was always something we really wanted to change. The design is called a “galley kitchen,” which sounds fancy, but it’s just two parallel walls with a small walkway between each side. With it being only 8x10 feet, it made for a small kitchen.
The Plan
Our original plan years ago was to add an addition so that we could expand the kitchen. After 11 years of not doing anything with the kitchen, (other than giving it a paint job), not foreseeing an addition any time soon, and looking at new houses, we decided, “Let’s move!” So that was our plan. Sell the house and move, but first we needed to do something with the kitchen. Nobody was going to buy a house with a tiny ugly kitchen. So we thought, “Let’s fix up the kitchen, just as quickly, simply, and inexpensive as possible, and then sell it. We’ll get much more for the house if the kitchen looks nice.” At the same time, I thought “just in case we never sell it, let’s make it how we would love it.” I had been watching “Fixer Upper” and “Love It or List It”, so my head was full of ideas.
It wasn’t difficult to figure out the new design of the kitchen. We wanted an open concept design, but we were limited to what we could do, due to the furnace and breaker box (circuit panel) being on the end of the kitchen.
We budgeted about $3,000 which included all new cabinets, tile backsplash, a new range and over-the-range microwave, flooring, wall paint, cabinet paint, and formica. When all finished, it ended up costing over $10,000.
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