The Rolling Day Off
Sunday, October 1st, 2006 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 01:44 pm (UTC)Up here in Northern New England, $100K for a kitchen revamp is ridiculous, but no doubt that amount was determined at Home Despot national headquarters, using a more metropolitan price scale. Someplace like San Francisco or New York (heck, even Boston, these days), cabinetry and general contractors would probably run through that $100K like water.