We've found a contractor we like a lot....someone recommended by a very picky, cost-conscious relative of George's. His name is Dave Cohen and he seems like exactly what we need, which is someone that will walk us through the process, holding our hands the whole way. I know that sounds stupid, but we are ignorant and need to have someone we feel we can trust because we could easily be lead astray.
But this guy is really a project manager, and his presentation of his estimate was extremely complete and professional, to the point where he had design suggestions that made a heck of a lot of sense. His quote was about $7k less than home depot's estimate, but we are also getting a lot more, (like 42" cabinets and removing the ugly soffits....something Home Depot never mentioned and we were getting their 30" cabinets with them.)
This week we signed a contract and gave a downpayment, and this weekend (labor day), Dave went out with us to a huge Tile/flooring store, a granite place where we got to see the actual slabs instead of 2 inch slabs at home depot, and to Lowe's. We've picked out the new cabinets, which I like better than what we were getting, and narrowed down the granite to 3 choices, 2 serious.
It feels like we are actually started now. He comes today for final measurements, then we order cabinets and start narrowing down everything else (appliances are set, GE Profile across the board, also several upgraded from the HD estimate.)
I hope by Christmas to have a whole new kitchen....and I believe our house will feel like a new house when we get it, and we'll want to quickly start doing other rooms too. Sorry Al.....I expect the kitchen to be completely ripped up when you arrive in October :).
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