Renovation

This is another do it yourself job. I can’t believe people have the skills to do this themselves. I can barely boil water. The reader writes:
“Regarding the kitchen- just to fill you in- the countertops are granite (Uba Tuba), black appliances, pale yellow paint (don’t know the exact color), ceramic tile flooring, and dark cherry cabinets from Home Depot. “

What do you think? It looks like there is a nice island in the center. I dig it.

Check out this awesome kitchen sent in by Garrett in Columbia Heights. The extra beauty of this one was that Garrett was able to do the work himself! I’d say he did a damn good job. What do you think?

Garrett writes:”Details: The space was a nasty large bathroom addition when we bought the house and the exterior walls were made of load bearing brick. We tore off the brick and rebuilt the addition out of wood. The kitchen’s got semi concealed Lutron QED electric roller shades for all of the windows, all Bosch appliances except for the Jenn-Air French door fridge, maple cabinets from Brookhaven, basalt stone countertops, floating cork floor with radiant hydronic heat below, pop-up mixer cabinet, pneumatic sink top disposal switch, low voltage lighting, speakers hooked into sound system, Eagle windows & doors, & cell phone charging station, etc… The paint is “Reflecting Pool” by Behr. In this phase of the renovation we also added a powder room and a spiral stair to a new roof deck above the kitchen.

Cost: It’s hard to quantify the cost since we did 95% of the work ourselves, but the street value for a good GC to do the job was probably $150,000. We didn’t spend nearly that much.”

Thanks to a reader who sent in this great kitchen renovation pic. You can see the before picture below. This may have been a bad idea because I am super jealous now.

And thanks to everyone who sent in pictures – I’ll will eventually post them all. Keep the pics coming though, if you’d like to be featured as well.

This is the before picture from a reader in Crestwood.