<p>Yes, but the farmhouse sink is wonderful, isn’t it?
Our Rohl sink is my absolute favorite part of our kitchen. It is deep,practical and the finish is superb.</p>
<p>Jumping in here. Would it be about the same for a master bath/closet renovation? I’ve come up with wildly divergent costs when I’ve run the numbers on different sites.</p>
<p>The farmhouse sink is wonderful. It was one of two splurges. The other was installation of wainscoting in the breakfast area that is attached to my galley kitchen. That helped transition the paint colors as I used since the breakfast area is in between a golden yellow family room (color above the wainscoting) and the not quite white kitchen (color of wainscoting). Those are the two things people ooh and aah over. The renovation was tiring, but I find myself walking into the kitchen several times each week and thinking how much I like the finished product.</p>
<p>I wanted a farmhouse sink .I had it ordered and everything. Then we figured out that it was going to be iffy that we would be able to put in a garbage disposal because of the depth of the sink I had chosen. So I chickened out and went with a standard double sink instead. I really needed to have a garbage disposal…but the farmers sink would have looked really nice.</p>
<p>I’m very happy with my sink. It’s a blanco kind of sink with double bowl, one bigger and deeper than the other. Because its an undermount sink, with granite, the granite makes it an inch deeper. As nutty as it sounds, I wanted a white sink. The sink and my Hansgroh faucet cost more than my Bosch dishwasher!</p>
<p>H did a new kitchen at our old house. It was a fairly large kitchen. He didn’t change the footprint. He got a Wolf range/stove, so he had to get a professional vent. He got 2 refridge drawers, custom cabinets, farmhouse sink, faucet, new appliances and granite top. He also had a wooden center island custom made. He didn’t change the floor because we had wooden floor. I just asked him tonight how much he spent. He said 80K. We sold the house 2.5 years ago when the market at the bottom. Our house was on the market for 30 days. I think the kitchen sold the house.</p>
<p>We recently had a contractor to give us an estimate of doing a small bathroom and kitchen in NYC with brand new everything. The estimate was around 100k.</p>
<p>“We recently had a contractor to give us an estimate of doing a small bathroom and kitchen in NYC with brand new everything. The estimate was around 100k.”</p>
<p>I can see that easily. My sister in Westchester did her wee master bath (not even big enough for a tub) 20 years ago and spent $40K. She told me if she did her kitchen (which hasn’t been done since before she moved in and she’d need to do a bump out as it’s small, also) it would cost her $400K. I don’t think she’ll ever do it now.</p>
<p>I always thought farmhouse sinks were stupid until my sister-in-law got one. We have similar cooking habits and now I want one too. I removed the garbage disposal when I moved into our house - I compost most of my garbage so that’s not an issue.</p>
<p>I recently redid our only 2nd floor bath and master bedroom. Complete gut on the bathroom moved a wall and rebuilt closets in the bedroom, got a whole wall of built in shelves. It cost around $35,000 - (I’ve already forgotten the final number!) - I got a good deal because I worked with my favorite contractor and I’m an architect.</p>
<p>NYC is much worse than the suburbs. You have to pay everyone off there.</p>
<p>In 1991 I once did a children’s bathroom where the client spent $40,000 on the world’s ugliest handmade tiles. Meanwhile I did a gut renovation of my kitchen for $30,000 including a new powder room and getting space from a small back porch and butlers pantry. You can spend whatever your pocketbook can afford.</p>
<p>Next up here is the hall bathroom upstairs. New vanity, counter, painting, floor, moldings and doors. I’m thinking we can do it for under $10,000.</p>
<p>Why are farm house sinks good? I’m afraid glasses will fall in and break. They seem too big and deep somehow.</p>
<p>Also perplexed by the microwaves under the cabinets.</p>
<p>We’re noodling on a kitchen remodel. Will keep our footprint. Love our hardwood floors so will keep. Have a nice new miele dishwasher already and a newish jenn air refrigerator that seems fine. Two big issues - </p>
<pre><code>Old lousy cabinets, yes could reface but the insides are kind of yuck
Soffit above the cabinets - should we remove soffit and put in cabinetry to the ceiling?
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<p>I don’t really like granite. Not sure what we’ll use on counters. My friends with Vikings seem to have had a lot of trauma with them so I think I’ll go more midrange on the ovens and range. Maybe Thermador. </p>
<p>The whole thing gives me a huge headache so we may push it out another year. Plus Sandy has all the contractor people really busy here.</p>
<p>I removed the soffit and put the cabinets all the way to the ceiling. Makes my kitchen seem much bigger. I am also not a fan of cabinets which don’t go all the way up even without soffit. Seems to me a waste of space, I hate the look of knickknacks and it’s just one big dust collector. </p>
<p>I was just in a friend’s newly remodeled kitchen and she put in a quartz counter. It was a solid sort of barley colored and looked gorgeous with very dark cabinets.</p>
<p>asking for cost of a kitchen remodel is like asking the cost of a new car…do you want a Yugo or a Mercedes? It’s all in the details. OH, and always count on spending a lot more than originally budgeted. We just had our kitchen remodeled…we went the custom cabinet route, local builder constructed on site…this opened up a lot of customization that we never thought about and couldn’t get with buying boxes.</p>
<p>My farmhouse sink is a double and I do have a disposal under the right hand side of it. I was extra careful at Christmas when washing the china and crystal.</p>
<p>“OH, and always count on spending a lot more than originally budgeted.”</p>
<p>I’ve never gone over budget and I’ve had $150K worth of reno’s done to my house. I give my contractor my budget and we work together to decide what I can and cannot have for the amount of money I want to spend. It does involve making decisions on what is important to me and what isn’t. For instance, I gave up putting in a fireplace in the family room (I have one in the living room) to have a load bearing wall removed and trusses put in, instead of having a beam running across the width separating the kitchen and dining room from the new family room addition. I had to go with sliding glass doors going out to the deck instead of french doors, and vinyl windows in the family room instead of wood - which I had put in the rest of the house a few years earlier when I had them replaced. </p>
<p>My contractor writes up a contract before work begins and that is that. The only time I made a change after was to add a pass thru from the kitchen to the dining room. I asked what it would cost and he said a few hundred dollars. I gave the OK but in the end still didn’t pay anymore than the amount on the contract. I love my contractor. :)</p>
<p>Two things I like about farmhouse sink. The first is the depth - if you use stock pots, cook turkeys anything it big pans it easy. But the unexpected benefit is just being closer to the dishes. That extra couple of inches because you don’t have counter between you and the sink makes a surprising difference. Even more for my sil who is very short.</p>
<p>Great point, mathmom. I was going to go with stainess steel but I see how nice it will be to get closer to the dishes. Would you recommend a copper farmhouse sink? It looks great. It may be a pit to use and maintain.</p>
<p>^ there are stainless steel farmhouse sinks</p>
<p>Not only are there stainless steel farmhouse sinks, but they are less than half the price of a cast iron sink. I was tempted, but decided it would be too contemporary for the overall look of my kitchen.</p>
<p>Our remodel nightmare a few years ago included updating the kitchen (granite surfaces, glas backsplash, new sink/faucet, lighting, moving cabinet hinges inside and fauxpainting them, etc as well as a full master bath gut/remodel and updating of the main floor bath and laundry room. Quite expensive (as in over 80K), not to metion the nightmare we went through with our contractor.</p>
<p>So you’d think we’d not be foolhardy enough to plan another update/remodel. You’d be wrong 
This time we are useing a decorator recommended by a neighbor and a contractor we’ve known a long time. Won’t make that other mistake twice.</p>
<p>Any remodeling talk can’t be complete without a nightmare story. I had one when we renovated a hall bathroom several years ago. It could have been much worse if the project was on hold. Fortunately, the township agreed with us and issued a new permit to our new contractor to finish the project while we hash out our differences with the old contractor.</p>