Orange County Floor Kitchen Bath

I am remodeling my kitchen and the house is a 960 sq. ft. 1972 home in Canton, OH. The home was purchased for 75k and valued at 86.5k. I will be painting the cabinets white, replacing the handles (approx $200), getting a formica countertop w/sink (priced at Lowe’s for $1250, after 10% off for opening a charge card), tile floor (71cent tile, with $3 per sq. ft. installation from a friend of mine) approximately $600, new stainless steel refrigerator, dishwasher, over the stove microwave, and stove (priced at $2300, not installed). Please comment on whether you think it is worth putting $4k in a kitchen of a lower end home with only a 140 sq. ft. area. By the way, Canton, OH, is ranked as 4th or 5th cheapest places to live in the country. Houses on the street sell in the range of $65k – $100k (some homes are over 1,300 sq. ft. though).

What do you mean by cheaper? There’s no such thing as a cheap remodel. If your talking gutting the kitchen and replacing cabinets your talking big $$$. I just did my kitchen and it cost approx. $50,000. Once you get new cabinets you’ll want new appliances, floor, counters etc. Its never ending. If you just want a new look you can resurface your existing cabinets. You can use any type of covering, you could repaint or just resurface professionally. Call Home Depot or just go into their kitchen design center. Tell them your considering remodeling your kitchen. They will send a measure to your house to take existing measurements then you can meet with a designer. That will only cost you $100, but you will get a blue print and design layout and a estimate for cost. Just tell them you want to go the least expensive route. Totally worth the money.

sister says expensive kitchen in DE is ~50k Euros, while here in US you get told $100k is normal. Why?