Exploring Options For Uising A General Contractor For A Kitchen Remodel?
We are considering a kitchen remodel. We’ve hired a general contractor and a kitchen designer for the DESIGN PHASE (a seperate agreement will be presented for the BUILD PHASE). We would like to explore other paths in lieu of hiring a GC.
We are interested in hearing from homeowners who have done kitchen remodels as to the options they pursued? How many served as their own GC’s? How did that go? How many worked with the local home center for cabinets, floors, etc and left the structural stuff to someone else? How did that work? We’re not interested in being our own GC, but there has got to be a less expensive way! We’re making quality decisions and downgrading OUR choices for OUR kitchen just to pay the GC’s fee and overhead costs. For example, we did all the work to select over $10K worth of appliances (which will be delivered and installed) and the GC will stand to earn quite a bit for what appears little work (enough for another appliance). Are there any other options?