Ikea sells kitchens, they are not in the business of installing them, no. But every Ikea will recommend local contractors to you that do that.
The guy said his price didn’t include appliances. And he didn’t lay out a big price spread with options. He thought it was in the neighborhood of 80K no matter what I opted for, apparently.
I’m way ahead of you on that I need to do more research. I need to find a more accomodating vendor for one thing.
A quick check at this comparison calculator. I ran comparisons between the three cities of Dallas, Cincinatti, and Las Vegas with both Amsterdam and Rotterdam. One American city was about the same as one Dutch; all five remaining results favored the American cities.
In some countries they don’t even recommend them but subcontract them.
You think? Yes, this guy is scamming you. And to answer your earlier question: a decent L shaped kitchen, medium luxury finish, including appliances, not including installing, paint and tiles… I’d say 3 to 5 K.
You think? Yes, this guy is scamming you. And to answer your earlier question: a decent L shaped kitchen fron IKEA, medium luxury finish, including appliances and cabinets and countertop, not including installing, paint and tiles… I’d say 3 to 5 K.
That would not be granite though. Ikea has their own kind of material for custom made countertops. It’s a kind of modern terrazzo, a composite that looks like granite but is cheaper, more durable, lighter, less fussy in upkeep, and - I think- overall a better choice.. See what I mean about their design being really better and not just fancier?
There are eight units per floor in our condo building. The lady five doors down from us on the end is getting her bathroom redone, and we’ve been letting her shower in our place. But she also owns the unit next door to us and rents that out, and the tenants just moved out yesterday, and her new tenant won’t move in until June 1, so now she’s using that place.
Sounds like this guy either wants you to buy him a new truck or put one of his kids through a year or two of college.
Get some bids.
My sister-in-law’s family had their kitchen renovated. The contractor, despite coming highly recommended, started the job but then inexplicably left for almost three weeks before returning and finishing up. My SIL said she did a lot of cooking in a toaster oven in the meantime.
We stayed in an extended-stay hotel for 10 days during the worst of the kitchen renovation. Then we ate takeout for the remaining 2-3 weeks. A bathroom would only be an issue if we didn’t have a spare (we do, at this house).
We had our kitchen, family room and both baths remodeled last year (about 40% of our house). A family friend had a vacation/rental house in a nearby town so we rented it for the 3.5 months it took to renovate the house. Pricey but for our family (myself, husband, two kids and two cats) it was totally worth it to not have to live in a house under construction. Plus the contractors were able to shave a little time off the timeline since they didn’t have to accommodate people living in the house.
The cost and duration depends on how extensive the renovations are. In our case for the kitchen renovation they took out walls, installed a new structural beam, flipped the kitchen from one side of the room to the other, framed an entirely new soffit, and leveled a floor slab that was very not level. That took a while. And was definitely not cheap, but the numerous problems with the old kitchen and layout have all been solved.