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rkoenke
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Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Was it more than a headache than it was worth? I want to do these projects, but wonder if i get 1/2 way into it if i will want to give up!
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Posted 6/19/08 7:26 AM  |
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
We redid our bath ourselves, down to the studs. It was a lot of work but was so worth it. What we spent (3000) we will get back at least 4xs that when we sell.
A PIA but worth it!
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| Posted 6/19/08 7:36 AM |
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rkoenke
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Posted by Goobster
We redid our bath ourselves, down to the studs. It was a lot of work but was so worth it. What we spent (3000) we will get back at least 4xs that when we sell.
A PIA but worth it!
yeah, my parents did the same thing. spent the same amount too. what they would have spent (the quotes they got) started at $12,000.00. I don't have a lot of money, so that's why i wouldn't pay anyone. plus, i am too cheap to pay someone if it's something that i can do...
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| Posted 6/19/08 7:44 AM |
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MegZee
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Yep - totally worth it. DH is very handy and is a teacher, so he is off all summer. that is his summer job (fixing our house!)
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| Posted 6/19/08 7:51 AM |
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rkoenke
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Posted by Meaghan729
Yep - totally worth it. DH is very handy and is a teacher, so he is off all summer. that is his summer job (fixing our house!)
LOL! I wish DH was more handy. He isn't afraid to take anything on, but damn is he sllllooowwww. he thinks and re-thinks, stops to go talk to the neighbors, calls his uncle, calls his father. then.... he'll finally start.
I love him dearly!
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| Posted 6/19/08 7:56 AM |
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suvenR
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
I had my brother (a contractor) do my bathroom. We spent $3,000 in supplies and easily added $10,000 in value.
We watched him like a hawk so we could learn how to do future projects on our own since he lives out of state.
IMO, it's so worth it if you can do it on your own. We would have had to spend $15,000 to pay someone to do our bathroom (down to the cement- he redid the studs and all) and there's no way this market would have allowed us to see a full return on that cost.
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| Posted 6/19/08 10:35 AM |
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tray831
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Yes. My DH gutted our entire house when we bought it which included a kitchen and bathroom as well. He has a lot of patience and is a very determined person so it worked for us. Took us some time but we got it done.
Is this something you will be doing yourself or would you have anyone helping you? Friend? Family?
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| Posted 6/19/08 11:10 AM |
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ave1024
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Posted by rkoenke
Was it more than a headache than it was worth? I want to do these projects, but wonder if i get 1/2 way into it if i will want to give up!
We redid the kitchen ourselves and saved a ton of cash. The only thing we didn't do ourselves in the kitchen was the countertops but that wasn't a big deal since installationw as included.
The bathroom I had a contractor do.
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| Posted 6/19/08 11:38 AM |
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Chrisnamy
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
We are re-doing our Kitchen ourselfs.
We moved our kitchen from the front of the house to the back of the house.
all new Wiring, Pumbling and Appliances.
My Dh is quite handy...It has saved us so much money. BUT (always a but)
Its also taken us many months to even get to the having the Cabinets installed we are now waiting on picking a granite.
Good luck
oh and once we finish the kitchen we will move on to the bathrooms..... 
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| Posted 6/19/08 3:17 PM |
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danielleandscott
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
My brother in law replaced the sheetrock with cement board in the shower area.
He then tiled the whole bathroom
My father in law installed the new vanity/sink/faucets/Mirror/towel bars/Light
And then we painted.
Bathroom cost me $700 tile
Vanity/sink/Faucet $300
Labor for my brother in law $500
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We only did minor things in our kitchen and we did the work our selves.
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| Posted 6/19/08 3:29 PM |
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imas98
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
We did both ourselves, with help from friends. It took longer than it would've using a contractor because we all work full-time and had limited time to devote to the projects.....but it was definitely worth it, especially because of the amount of money we saved !! Everything came out pretty good too.
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| Posted 6/19/08 3:40 PM |
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Laura1976
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
DH did our bathroom by himself. Took it down to studs, moved plumbing the whole nine. It took a lot longer then we expected, but we probably did it for a 1/3 of the price then a contractor. It easily would have ran us 25K+
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| Posted 6/19/08 3:46 PM |
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curliegirl
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
DH did both our bathroom and kitchen....
I still have no idea how he did it working FT, but they look amazing!!!!
ETA
TOTALLY worth it, our bathroom cost us about $3k, which should have cost more than 10.
Our kitchen cost about $15k I think, and should have been about double that.
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| Posted 6/19/08 3:55 PM |
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TJLealand3
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
I do everything my self and save a bunch.
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| Posted 6/19/08 4:57 PM |
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skip123
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
no we had a contractor...but I do wish we had the ability to diy..it definitley saves tons of money....
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| Posted 6/19/08 5:13 PM |
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jerome8283
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
We do all of our work ourselves. Contractors charge too much money and they make a mess of your home. Doing it ourselves saves so much money and we do it exactly the way we want it, and at our pace. We use the internet to do our research. Everything you want to know is on the web. You also need to be careful when using the web for research because there are right and wrong ways to do things and not everything on the web is right. HD and Lowes also has 'how to do' clinics and books.
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| Posted 6/19/08 5:22 PM |
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SUNSHINE
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Posted by Meaghan729
Yep - totally worth it. DH is very handy and is a teacher, so he is off all summer. that is his summer job (fixing our house!)
I could have written this. Once we close on our house DH will be doing the Bath & Kitchen while he is off for the summer!
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| Posted 6/19/08 8:57 PM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Over the years, I've done a little bit of everything, but lately, my time is much more valuable than money. I would rather pay someone to do all that labor, and spend time with DW and DC. It will get done a lot faster, and I can spend time with the ones I love..... 
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| Posted 6/20/08 12:28 AM |
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BaroqueMama
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
We are doing the bathroom and kitchen all by ourselves (and by ourselves, I mean my dad and BIL are doing it for us, god bless them! ). Our bathroom would have cost use close to 15-17K to do professionally, and I think we've spent only 2K.
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| Posted 6/20/08 2:49 AM |
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rkoenke
my little piggys
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Posted by tray831
Yes. My DH gutted our entire house when we bought it which included a kitchen and bathroom as well. He has a lot of patience and is a very determined person so it worked for us. Took us some time but we got it done.
Is this something you will be doing yourself or would you have anyone helping you? Friend? Family?
Oh, definitely... my parents, who already have experience...
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| Posted 6/20/08 6:24 AM |
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rkoenke
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Another question... hanging cabinets? Anyone have any smart suggestions. I am so worried that once they are hung, they are going to be crooked, or the doors will constantly be ajar a little bit. Any advice on hanging them?
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| Posted 6/20/08 6:29 AM |
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sfp0701
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
We did our kitchen and it was so worth it. I was a ton of work but, we did it. I have pics in my album.
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| Posted 6/20/08 7:44 AM |
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sfp0701
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Posted by rkoenke
Another question... hanging cabinets? Anyone have any smart suggestions. I am so worried that once they are hung, they are going to be crooked, or the doors will constantly be ajar a little bit. Any advice on hanging them?
I didn't have any problems. We used a level to make a straight line and then nailed a board right even with that line. We were able to rest the cabinets on that and we knew they were even. Then we removed the board and moved onto the next cabinet. Then we covered up the holes with the tile backsplash but you could use spakle too.
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| Posted 6/20/08 7:46 AM |
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sfp0701
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
Posted by jerome8283
We do all of our work ourselves. Contractors charge too much money and they make a mess of your home. Doing it ourselves saves so much money and we do it exactly the way we want it, and at our pace. We use the internet to do our research. Everything you want to know is on the web. You also need to be careful when using the web for research because there are right and wrong ways to do things and not everything on the web is right. HD and Lowes also has 'how to do' clinics and books.
We literally installed our sink plumbing by using the interent. It was really helpful!
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| Posted 6/20/08 7:47 AM |
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Lisa
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Re: Did you re-do your kitchen / baths yourself?
we did an up-lift to the kitchen. we repainted the cabinets, walls, replaced the appliances, floor, light fixtures and put in a backsplash. did it all our selves except the floor. SAved a tom of money and it will hold us over for a fewe years until we totally gut and redo the ktchen
We re-did out bathroom ourselves. We didnt replace ther toilet, tub or tiles but ripped out everything else. Totally worht it!!
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