I recently moved and completely flipped my first home for an amazing profit! You can read about it here! Part of our house flip was to finish a remodel on the entire kitchen on a super tight budget! Like SUPER tight budget. I had an idea in my head of what it could look like, unfortunately not the funds. So we did what I do best, we got thrifty!
Before: 
Here’s what we did:
First we painted to clean up the walls. Actually I painted 2x’s before I realized a clean color (off white) is better than bold color (green?!) when it comes to a kitchen. Then we replaced the floors! This happened within a few weeks of moving in and thank god we did because we found black mold in the house! SO. Friggin. Gross! In the words of Sarah………
This is the downside of buying a home that needs to be flipped! Moving on…
Next project was the biggest, we refinished the cabinets! Read about that refinish here. We used Rust-Oleum Cabinet Transformations, The Small Kit, In the White color! This kit is amazing! We ended up loving it so much we did the rest of the bathroom cabinets in Espresso
Next we replaced all the appliances for under $1,000 to stainless steel. I stalked searched on craigslist for a gently used fridge, because I did not want to drop $2,000 on a fridge I was going to leave in the home. If found gently used appliances that all looked almost new for pennies on the dollar. I splurged and bought a new stove, because those seem to always look bad used. Since we were moving, I submitted my change of address to the post office early and got the 10% off coupon that we used at Lowes! 🙂
Then we found Airstone, also sold at Lowes, as a cheap and fancy looking backslash in the kitchen! Amazon sells a competetor for a little cheaper that you might want to check out as well! (It’s called Black Bear – Stone Ledge Stone Aspen)
We debated getting new counters but in the end decided to keep the old ones since they were a neutral color and still in great shape.
Bam – Kitchen done on a fraction of what a regular kitchen remodel would cost.
- Cabinet refinish $150
- Knobs and Pulls $52
- New/gently appliances $995
- Pendant light and new shade for light $70
- Airstone Backsplash $225
Total Kitchen remodel cost – $1,492
(not including the floors, which we replaced throughout the whole house)
So it can be done on a super tight budget!! Let me know what you think! I lovvvvvvveeeee comments 🙂
