Kitchen Makeover-??

We went to Home Depot a few months ago to get prices and the woman quoted $9,000 to get a nice kitchen and countertops.
With appliances, labor and lighting would you think $20,000 would be enough to estimate the whole job? I need to know how much of a loan I need to get.
Thanks!

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that sounds like enough to me....it also depends on what kind of appliances you are looking to get.

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It cost us a lot less than $20K... and our cabinets/countertops were about the same price as you were quoted.
The only thing is we did the cabinet installation ourselves.
The cabinets were about $6K (we install)
Granite countertops about $3K
Tile floor plus labor about $1.5K
4 Black Appliances: Less than $2K
Tile backsplash $200 (we did it, no labor charge)
Lighting about $500
Sink/faucet/everything else: less than $1K

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with labor 20,000 is pretty average for a decent size kitchen. if you can do it yourself it does save alot of money

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Check out Ikea -- they have great cabinets, very well made, for less $$ thank anywhere we looked at -- including HD.

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we just did re-did our kitchen. Without labor charges (we did it all ourselves) it cost close to 20k. What size is your kitchen?

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We did our kitchen ourselves, and bought the cabinets from Ikea. It cost next to nothing -

Cabinets - $3k (we installed)
Wood block countertops - $500
Tile and backsplash (installed ourselves - from Home Depot) - $600
New Appliances/sink - $2.5k
Lighting - about $1k

Here are some pictures so you can see how it looks (the bottom picture is before, the top picture is after)

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We are redoing our 8x8 kitchen right now.

We purchased our cabinets from Home Depot for $2,500 (we are hanging ourselves).

Our countertop is a solid surface like Corian, but their cheaper version- $1700 (includes installation)

Tile floor- $500 (did the tiling ourselves)

tile backsplash- $200 (doing ourselves)

Over the range microwave - $300

We went into this project armed with a book on tiling and instructions for hanging the cabinets. It has been time consuming and at times difficult, but for all the money we are saving it is worth it. The only words of caution are to double check the measurements that Home Depot does for you. We have half of our kitchen still to finish because they messed up our measurements and then would not return our calls. We finally have the correct items ordered and hope to be able to finish it by the end of the month.