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Old 03-05-2012, 04:56 PM
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I have a couple of friends looking now, but when we bought our last house the kitchen was a big deal every time. A lot of the new houses in our area had galley style kitchens - no good for people who like to cook. A couple had beautiful gourmet kitchens with a couple odd things - like a giant beautiful six burner gas range in the corner with no adjacent counterspace behind where the traffic pattern from the door outside? It looked nice, but it wasn't very practical, and would have cost big bucks to change it.

Bad wallpaper or repainting on the other had is a relatively easy fix.

The deal breaker for us was traffic patterns. Be sure you check out the area and zoning nearby. We looked at one house that was nice, but backed onto the state highway, which was not a big deal just 4 years ago, but is now.
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Old 03-06-2012, 05:05 AM
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At our last house in the US, we had to tear out all the cabinets because the corner unit was one of those where you had to have Stretch Armstrong arms to get into the back of the very deep base cabinet. In any case, the sink wasn't aligned with the window above it, so they had to come out regardless. I could not live with the window and sink being off by 3 inches. I also replaced the oddly small cabinets with the up to the ceiling kind and got loads more space. I will never understand why people choose anything but the most cabinet space available. You can't really be that cheap to save something like $20 per cabinet in a kitchen that small. And it was TEENSY but man, by the time we sold it we had that sucker efficient. I ended up installing a dishwasher (bought from Habitat ReStores), replaced garbage disposal, new full size gas stove (replacing dorm size), new fridge (Sears outlet), new cabinets, ceiling fans, counter tops (bright blue - very cute in such a small kitchen) and paint and all of it done DIY, thank you very much. The only thing I didn't replace was the vinyl flooring. It really needed it but it would have needed to be done at the time of the cabinet replacement and I didn't think of it until a year later. I decided it was an homage to the 70's and chose to live with it.
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Old 03-10-2012, 02:38 PM
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Beta: I read this thread with interest. While we're not selling.....its location that counts the most...everything else can be changed.
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