How much will your kitchen remodeling project cost? Our kitchen remodel cost estimator includes all pricing. Including cabinets, countertops, appliances, flooring, fixtures, and installation. Simply add up your cost in each category. Updated 8/19/2024

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/15/2024 -- Calculating how much a kitchen remodel costs is not as difficult as most nonprofessionals might believe. Contrary to what most people might expect it is not the quality of the materials or added construction that makes kitchens significantly more expensive. Quality cabinetry can be inexpensive. Surprisingly, removing walls or moving doorways and plumbing adds only a small fraction to the overall cost of a kitchen.

It is selecting professional appliances, unusual cabinet colors or styles and expensive counter tops that break budgets. Luxury windows, doors and other fixtures can make a budget spiral out of control.

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Main Line Kitchen Design pays a referral fee of 10% of the job’s profit to the Contractor, Realtor or Interior Designer who recommended us. Some professionals make tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/02/2024 -- Calling all Realtors, Contractors and Interior Designers. Earn 10% commission on your customer referrals HERE.

Main Line Kitchen Design's referral program compensates our valued contractor, realtor and designer colleagues for jobs we probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Our design team – all with more than 20 years of industry experience – use the same design process we do with our other customers. That process includes measuring the kitchen first. We then work with the home owner on the design using 20/20 CAD. We then price cabinetry, countertops, and hardware at our standard competitive prices.

Best of all, once the job is complete, we pay a referral fee of 10% of the job's profit to the Contractor, Realtor or Interior Designer who recommended us.

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Here are the 15 most common – and costly – errors both professionals and non-professionals make when flipping a house.

NARBERTH, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/24/2024 -- First Big 5 below
1. DIY and not getting professional design help. Professional design help can be free or cost very little. Don't be stubborn! Many kitchen and bath dealers offer free design help or very small deposits to measure a home and create professional designs. When you are flipping a house take all the free or low cost professional help you can get.

Why would someone not avail themselves of free expert design and budgetary advice when flipping a home?
It's possibly just human nature. As kitchen designers we know that customers can insist on implementing bad ideas simply because they thought of them. Worst of all when you are embarking on an expensive home renovation, not for yourself but to sell a property, your style, color, and design preferences should never enter into decision making. What's a good value, what's popular, and what's fast and easy to work with should be the top priorities.

2. Keeping the footprint. There are ALWAYS better layouts that experts can share with you.

3. Buying expensive cabinetry. Just about every homeowner can NOT tell the difference between expensive and inexpensive brands (the difference is in the selection, not the quality. Best of all the MOST popular styles are always mass produced and available in the less expensive well made brands. Don't throw money away!

4. Choosing your taste and not what's popular especially if it costs more money. Spending more on what's less popular is not good business.

5. Expensive professional appliances. While expensive appliances like Wolf, Viking, and SubZero are great, the difference in the cost of the appliance package can be $20,000 or more above very nice and similar looking brands. There are far better investments that can be made flipping a house.



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Why does price comparing kitchen cabinets at a bunch of different places almost assure that you will be taken advantage of?

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/13/2024 -- Cabinet pricing is dependent on dozens of factors. Customers are simply not knowledgeable enough about cabinets to price compare accurately. Accordingly, customers who shop too much and don't trust a good kitchen designer usually fall prey to the first unscrupulous designer they meet.

Read the article below to learn about all the ways that kitchen cabinet buyers could be comparing "apples to bananas"

https://www.mainlinekitchendesign.com/general/price-comparing-kitchen-cabinets-and-why-it-is-a-bad-idea/

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Kitchen Cabinet Storage Solutions Available from Main Line Kitchen Design. There are many possible kitchen storage solutions available for base, wall, and tall pantry cabinets.

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/08/2024 -- There are many possible kitchen storage solutions available for base, wall, and tall pantry cabinets. Rev-A-Shelf is the most common manufacturer for many of these internal cabinet convenances. Other manufacturers include Hafele, Kessebohmer, and sometimes the individual cabinet brands.

The cabinet storage solutions can be as simple as a roll out, or as complicated as a Lemans blind base storage. At the bottom of the page is a link to the 47 most common cabinet storage conveniences.

Probably the most common "must have" storage convenience besides a simple cabinet roll out is a double trash pull out. This convenience is best located on one side of a primary sink, in an island or on the end of a cabinet peninsula.

Read full article and see examples

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Once you have an Insurance claim, your insurer is the last person to take advice from.

Narberth, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/05/2024 -- Unfortunately, some of the kitchen projects Main Line Kitchen Design works on are due to water, fire or smoke damage and are financed by an insurance claim. Even more troubling is that by following the advice of their insurance company, homeowners start a process that wastes time and money, and almost always results in providing a fraction of the money needed for a new kitchen.

Once you have an Insurance claim, your insurer is the last person to take advice from.

Caution! The first advice insurance companies give is to call ServePro.
When homeowners call their insurance companies to make a claim, the agents recommend calling ServePro as soon as possible. ServePro is a national fire and water cleanup and restoration operation. When contacted, they immediately initiate demolition and other remedies that are incredibly overpriced and often unnecessary.

ServePro knows nothing about renovating kitchens and almost as little about construction. Many of their remedies for water and smoke damage even create more damage. Ultimately, the majority of what they charge for ends up requiring repairs or to be completely redone by reputable general contractors.

When making an insurance claim ALWAYS do this first!
Call the insurance company second!

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MDF or Medium Density Fiberboard is no longer a negative cabinet door feature!

NARBERTH, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/22/2024 -- MDF painted cabinet doors rate best!

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The simple answer is yes, Buy American! The most reliable and the best value for kitchen cabinets are all American owned companies. However, it is not exactly that simple.

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/21/2023 -- The most labor-intensive part of cabinet production is the building, sanding, and finishing of cabinet fronts. For less expensive cabinetry, you simply can't get a well-made product that is 100% built in the US. Labor costs in Asia and Mexico are just too low. Accordingly, some American companies manufacture many of their cabinet parts in other countries, before assembling the cabinetry domestically.

For example, Apple is a US company. If iPhones were built in the US, they would be more expensive than they are now. $2,000 for a phone would be a low estimate. To get quality and affordability, you must combine overseas labor with US ingenuity and distribution.

So, you can buy American but there might be caveats.

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Made in the USA. Is it Always Smart to Buy American Cabinetry?

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Recalling a time when the cabinet industry was less transparent. If you are buying kitchen cabinets this blog originally from 2011 is a valuable read.

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/30/2023 -- Note: Since posting "If you are buying kitchen cabinets, beware" in 2011 many of the Masterbrands cabinet lines changed. They have switched from 3/8 inch sides to half inch sides. Possibly due to better consumer awareness. Instead of removing or editing the blog I am keeping it posted as it was to mark the time and place our industry was at in early 2011. We also have a more recent bog below that reviews current cabinet brands:

https://www.mainlinekitchendesign.com/general/kitchen-cabinet-ratings-for-2021-reviews-for-the-top-selling-cabinet-brands/

Here is the original blog from March 2011
Kitchen cabinet buyers need reputable, professional assistance for many reasons. Top concerns are safety (see the blog below) and good design. And . . . there's probably no less blunt way to say this. . . to avoid being ripped off.

https://www.mainlinekitchendesign.com/general/is-your-kitchen-designer-going-to-kill-you/

For example, many cabinet companies sell the same product for different prices by having multiple cabinet line names. Even in the same cabinet line, exact same door styles and finishes will have different names at different locations.

In 2004 (and again many times after) Consumer Reports was completely duped. They continually publish cabinet reviews in which they compare cabinets that are actually the same product. And they always review these identical cabinet brands differently. Ikea duped them as well – – garnering top ratings despite durability and construction flaws. These flaws only a few years to become problems.

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https://www.mainlinekitchendesign.com/general/let-the-cabinet-buyer-beware/

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“The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on what they partially create.” Wikipedia

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/20/2023 -- The IKEA effect was identified and named by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School, Daniel Mochon of Yale, and Dan Ariely of Duke, who published the results of three studies in 2011.

In these studies researchers found that consumers value their own work product far above what would be considered reasonable or rational.

For example, researchers found that the majority of people attempting origami for the first time rated their own creation better than those done by an origami master.

As Kitchen Designers The Ikea Effect is troubling for two reasons.
First, IKEA cabinetry is poorly constructed and not a particularly good value, yet due to this documented effect homeowners rate IKEA cabinetry above ALL other brands in Consumer Reports and JD power rankings.

Even more concerning to kitchen designers, IKEA and others now supply complimentary and extremely rudimentary kitchen design software. Due to the same IKEA effect people can believe their designs are equal to, or better than designs done by professionals.

Full article here.

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Cabinet ratings for 2023: The top selling cabinet brands reviewed.

Bala Cynwyd, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/16/2023 -- Latest 2023 cabinet reviews for the top kitchen cabinet brands. Compiled by kitchen design and cabinetry experts.

Below are Main Line Kitchen Design's up to date cabinet reviews for the top-selling cabinet manufacturers in the United States. We rate how the manufacturers rate for construction quality and value considering the price point of each cabinet line. Price point is rated from 1 to 6. So, 1 represents the least expensive brands. While 6 is the most expensive custom cabinetry on the market.

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