Browse Forums Kitchen Corner Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 3Jul 23, 2013 1:35 pm Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 5Jul 23, 2013 2:37 pm Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 8Jul 23, 2013 6:37 pm Building the Porter Davis Dunedin 29 maybe, thinking of forfeiting deposit and going with CH or UE Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 9Jul 23, 2013 7:18 pm Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 10Jul 23, 2013 7:32 pm Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65085 Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 13Jul 24, 2013 6:31 am Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 14Jul 24, 2013 11:29 am I have emailed them and told them that we will start from scratch and have asked for individual pricing for a few things that I really want - an extra set of drawers, widening some other drawers that were standard, adding a set of overheads which will be about 1500mm in length. We figured we will get the structure right - where we want stone etc and then upgrade the doors in a couple of years. CEK, I have pricing from a high end kitchen maker here and they said to upgrade from standard Laminex to either Ultraglaze or Polytec Createk would be around $1500 for my kitchen, a cupboard to a bank of drawers is $500 so thanks for your guidance, it seems in line with pricing here. It's a very simple kitchen, no corners and all straight lines. I'm sure they won't itemise the expenditure for the $25k. I told them it was difficult to know where the money was spent from the way the VO was written and they just said the 'majority of it is in the kitchen'. I just don't know how they got to the price at the end of the day. Unless they only budgeted $5k or something originally - it simply isn't a $25K+ kitchen (minus appliances). That $25k is for cabinetry only, it doesn't even include the cost to upgrade the glass splashback, put something on the front of the island bench etc - this cost is another $2k! I chose the middle level colour not the base level that they included as standard. It's purely cabinetry and stone - of which I said earlier, I reckon I deleted over 5m from the original cabinetry in the bathrooms and another couple in the kitchen. Presuming that credit would cover the handleless cupboards and some of the extra couple of drawers and overheads I put in. Thanks everyone. It helps to talk it through. Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 15Jul 24, 2013 6:04 pm Make sure you let us know how you get on. Good luck! Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 18Jul 25, 2013 6:16 pm I've had a bit of clarification from the builder. The kitchen was the bulk of it with $14k of changes. The laundry was $9.5k of changes. The laundry is easiest to explain the changes I had made. These were: Add 3 metres of overhead cupboards in Ultraglaze with matching edging Change 3 cupboard doors to 3 pull out laundry basket drawers Upgrade 3 metres of underbench cupboards from standard laminex to Ultraglaze with matching edging Thats it. I asked for some individual pricing, ie for lift up cupboard doors however apparently the cabinet maker did the pricing by area, not by change so it isn't clear, but I guess I can find all of this out when we visit the cabinet maker. So we are now going to the cabinet makers with the original plans, looking at costing of changing a couple of things and leaving it as is. CEK, is Polytec Createc a prefinished board? I've been told I can select a prefinished board and anything else will be an upgrade. Thanks guys!! Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 19Jul 25, 2013 9:54 pm To cut costs I would takeout the overheads and leave them till after handover. Remember the builder will be charging you what the cabinet maker charges plus their margin on top. If you are going to be able to meet the cabinet maker personally you might be able to ask them ways to save costs (those things that can be changed over later cheaply) that way you get the base the way you want and can add to it. I know our builder charged us almost $1000 for two sets of 3 pot draws around the $500 mark for a microwave recess with pot draw and about $2400 for a second piece of essa stone, ours is 20mm (that was apparently after a credit for using left over stone in the bathrooms over the laminex tops...) Good luck making the decisions!! Re: Well now I am thoroughly depressed! 20Jul 26, 2013 6:57 am Can you undo the changes to the laundry? The laundry baskets could be done later, a handyman could take hinges off, fit the baskets and mount the door. If the floor space is large enough you could just buy free standing laundry baskets. Open shelving or fit the overheads later. Will guests see your laundry? Stay with the standard laminate. My guests have to go through mine to get to the back yard. It might free up money for the kitchen. We don't spend as much time in the laundry as the kitchen. Also, have you added slide out baskets and the like in the kitchen? Use the kitchen for awhile and then add storage. My sister's ex did a trade in kitchens and said lazy susans and the like have a huge mark up and people go crazy selecting all that stuff and probably don't really need it. Here are some shelving ideas http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=laundry%20shelves 9k for those laundry changes is INSANE. Finally got the Soakwell at my house sucked out. Now I’m looking for ideas on how to hide it as it’s a bit of an eye sore. I’m thinking I’d like to turf over the… 0 4406 9 26412 This is one of the reasons I decided to go overseas for my double glazed windows. As the builder indicated, he's worked on many upmarket builds, these were the most well… 13 20646 |