Can You Do A Major Kitchen Remodel in Stages?

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Today, we will be addressing an interesting interior design dilemma regarding doing a kitchen remodel in stages.

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Today, we’re going to focus on kitchen remodels and the subsequent questions a few of you had.

Due to my injury, it’s baby steps for me. So, if you don’t see your dilemma here, it means:

• There are already blog posts that address the issue.
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As with other topics, there are a few posts already in existence. If that’s the case, I will link back to it.

 

Below is my crappy little kitchen before the big renovation that began in June 2023.

 

Yes, those horribly uncoordinated light fixtures were already here.

A Renovation House Tour for My Newly Renovated Boston Condo!

My Extensive Renovation. Here’s Why I Did It.

 

A very interesting question came from Megan R regarding wanting to do a kitchen remodel in stages.

 

Hi Laurel, 
If you were needing to baby step through a full kitchen remodel or bathroom renovation but not moving any utility lines (i.e., plumbing, electric, gas), how would you do that?

We can’t afford just to rip everything out and do it all at once, but I want to be smart about doing it in stages. And I can’t wrap my brain around how to do that, because it seems like there isn’t a way to do it in stages and have it turn out well. Am I wrong?

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Dear Megan, You are not wrong; you are correct–1000% correct.

 

Doing your kitchen remodel in stages is a sure-fire way to have it end up costing double what it would have if you did it all at once.

 

AND to make some whopping mistakes, along the way.

Plus, you’ll be living with chaos, filth, dust and disarray for how long?

Most kitchens take from 3 to 9 months, in any case. Do you want to live like that for three years? I mean, there’s pain, and then there’s giving birth to quintuplets for three years straight!

What I recommend is careful planning in advance and saving up for when you can do it all at once, say in three years, when you were planning to finish.

 

You can hold off on wall tiles and maybe a dishwasher, but otherwise, I strongly recommend that you do the project in one gulp.

 

If at all possible, saving your current kitchen cabinets and painting them, upgrading the hardware, will make a huge difference.

Kitchen Ironmongery is Threatening to Pull Me Over the Edge

 

However, there are other things you can do either temporarily or permanently to make things so much better.

Okay, I spent most of the time heavily updating one of my favorite 12-year-old blog posts, which goes over many terrific ideas for cost-effective kitchen updates.

You will find a ton of ideas in the post below.

 

I Can’t Afford 200k for a Kitchen Renovation– Now What?

 

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