The Rolling Day Off
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rolanniToday was the rolling day off. kinzel and I celebrated the holiday by rearranging the kitchen. (No, the excitement never does stop. Your point?) With a little bit of help of Home Despot, we have achieved a configuration that will work, and also not block the baseboard hot water unit. With winter coming on and the price of oil being what it no doubt will be, this was a chore that was well past due. Everything's now over except getting yelled at by the cats.
While we were spacing around the aforementioned Home Despot (Big Sale on wood laminate flooring, mmmmm), I picked up a piece of paper advertising a chance to win a $100,000 Dream Kitchen Makeover. No, there's not an extra zero in that -- $100,000 kitchen makeover. Says so right here.
Now, leaving aside the fact that I could make over my entire house for $100,000(heck, I could dern near buy a whole new house for $100,000)-- how exactly would you spend that much money on the kitchen?
Sure, tear out the scarred cabinets, and the ugly green-and-white laminate countertop, pull up the linoleum, get rid of that ghodawful ceiling light, and the stoopid barn siding between the top of the cabinets and the ceiling. Put in new cabinets, quartz countertops, parquet floor, PAINT, put a ceiling fan/light thingy in where the ugly fixture is now... The refrigerator and the stove are new(ish) (so they don't "match;" who has a stove and refrigerator that match?), and surely don't need to be replaced. For the rest of it, even if I don't shop hard and only buy stuff that's on sale -- *faints* -- and I have the nice fellas at Home Despot do all the work, I've still got, what? 60 grand left over?
What am I missing? How would you spend $100,000 on your kitchen?
kinzel and I celebrated the holiday by rearranging the kitchen. (No, the excitement never does stop. Your point?) With a little bit of help of Home Despot, we have achieved a configuration that will work, and also not block the baseboard hot water unit. With winter coming on and the price of oil being what it no doubt will be, this was a chore that was well past due. Everything's now over except getting yelled at by the cats.While we were spacing around the aforementioned Home Despot (Big Sale on wood laminate flooring, mmmmm), I picked up a piece of paper advertising a chance to win a $100,000 Dream Kitchen Makeover. No, there's not an extra zero in that -- $100,000 kitchen makeover. Says so right here.
Now, leaving aside the fact that I could make over my entire house for $100,000(heck, I could dern near buy a whole new house for $100,000)-- how exactly would you spend that much money on the kitchen?
Sure, tear out the scarred cabinets, and the ugly green-and-white laminate countertop, pull up the linoleum, get rid of that ghodawful ceiling light, and the stoopid barn siding between the top of the cabinets and the ceiling. Put in new cabinets, quartz countertops, parquet floor, PAINT, put a ceiling fan/light thingy in where the ugly fixture is now... The refrigerator and the stove are new(ish) (so they don't "match;" who has a stove and refrigerator that match?), and surely don't need to be replaced. For the rest of it, even if I don't shop hard and only buy stuff that's on sale -- *faints* -- and I have the nice fellas at Home Despot do all the work, I've still got, what? 60 grand left over?
What am I missing? How would you spend $100,000 on your kitchen?
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Date: 2006-10-02 01:21 am (UTC)Cabinets are the easiest way to blow the budget. Solid maple cabinets with intricately worked doors and concealed hinges, custom-sized for your kitchen. You wouldn't believe what can be dropped on cabinets. If that's not expensive enough, of course, you can always go for the more exotic and hard-to-work-with walnut and walnut burl. Or teak, or purpleheart, or ebony.
A commercial-style high-speed vent hood might actually make sense; particularly if you have the heavy-duty commercial-style stove, or if you hate cleaning up grease spatters on the walls.
A Sub-Zero refrigerator-freezer can cost over $7K on its own. Instead, you could go for built-in, wood-fronted individual fridge and freezer drawers under your countertops. About $2k per drawer, if I recall correctly.
Floors are easy, of course. Your call -- hardwood, granite, hand-panted Italian tile, or mosaics in a variety of patterns. Or for better footing, cork.
*Paint* the walls? Not on this budget -- tile them, again with the hand-painted stuff.
Sure, a new light fixture; but also under-cabinet task lighting.
Optional gimcracks can round things out: an ice maker; a soda fountain; a wine refrigerator; a built-in deep-fryer; a built-in blender apparatus (weird, but I've seen 'em). Two dishwashers; again, really quiet ones can cost a couple thousand dollars.
Ok, I've just re-read the question you posed. I'd thought it was "how can anybody spend that much money...", but of course, it was "how would _you_ spend that much money". That's way harder. I'll try again in a little bit.