Interior Designers Home Memory: Kitchen Remodeling

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Kitchen Remodeling

Embarking on a kitchen-remodeling project can be daunting. With all the elements—flooring, cabinets, appliances, countertops—you might find yourself getting overly protective with your checkbook. There's no way around it: Kitchen-remodeling projects Q: The bids for our kitchen renovation looked low—until we realized they left out cabinets, appliances and such, which apparently we buy separately. Is there a way to ballpark those costs, so we can judge whether the project fits our budget? A: Are you If you're looking to remodel your kitchen, we've got good news and bad news. First, the good stuff. According to trend experts Lita Dirks and Dominick Tringali, you don't have to shell out major cash to add space. Instead, look to expand what you already have. When we last checked in with Consumer Reports to see which things matter to the magazine's practical-minded readers, we learned that their kitchen remodeling decisions tended to boil down to two words: resale value. That was a mere two years ago Remodeling a kitchen is a great way to breathe new life into a home as well as significantly increase its value, but experts note that some people have only the vaguest notions of how much they should spend. A Houzz.com survey shows that the average cost (MCT)—When Michelle and Jon Christy bought their 1980s-era home in North Tustin, Calif., much of the residence already was remodeled. Except for the kitchen. It was dated. And it was olive green. “I wanted to lighten up the kitchen, because the kitchen .

“This whole design was inspired by the Hill Country. I’ve been in some wineries and some homes in those parts and I love the whole inside-outside feel.” Craig Kooda of Frisco-based Gold Medal Pools & Outdoor Living was responsible for the kitchen A kitchen remodel is one of the more common home upgrades. An estimated 5 million happen each year in the United States. It's not surprising. Styles change, new technologies improve old appliances and even invent new ones. Plus, your kitchen gets a lot of The appeal of a modern kitchen is so powerful that Robert Criner, president of Criner Remodeling, a home remodeling company in Newport News, Va., says homeowners should consider remodeling an outdated or dysfunctional kitchen regardless of how long they Are you looking at your kitchen space and dreaming of some serious upgrades? Perhaps you find yourself looking longingly, yet ruefully, at interior design magazines, intrigued by the ideas they spark that seem just slightly out of reach. If your kitchen is .