How do I start to remodel an old house's kitchen and bathroom?

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Get... First, get a big pile of money..... Or lacking that, get a big pile of time and gumption and band-aids. There's a bit of a chicken-egg problem on many levels-- the best way would be to move out for four months and call in some pros to do the work. But most of us have nowhere to go for that long and don't have the $47,550 to pay for a good kitchen redo.

A major redo involves gutting everything. There's usually nothing salvageable and no way to do it one piece at a time. You just have to block off the room and start swinging crowbars.

Hard, messy work. Usually it's difficult to impossible to do it piecemeal-- to replace the kitchen cabinets, you end up wrecking the molding, and the plasterboard around the edges, and since that is wrecked, you might as well run new wiring through the trashed walls, so you might as well do new plumbing, and ceiling fixtures, and by now you've wrecked the floor, so that has to go... See, it quickly becomes a major production. Years ago while lying on my living-room floor I noticed the baseboard molding was a bit scratched-- so I started a simple refinishing project on that, but then with my nose down there I figured out the last owner's cats had been peeing by that baseboard, so the old carpeting had to come up, as did the padding, then the old flooring had to be bleached, and since I was redoing the baseboard, it was a good time to paint the walls, but those had a few cracks, which meant plastering, and then might as well add a few outlets.... A simple baseboard job turned into a full room redo..

Find someone who has done it and have them over for coffee, tea and a hammer Always best to have someone with lots of experience around as many mistakes that can be costly could happen if you try it on your own .

Actually I would take the trim boards off. If there are elecric sockets please be careful. 120 will bite but not kill, but 220 (like an elecric stove can) I got to take a nap..

1 If you are doing it yourself, start with a very detailed plan and don't even think about picking up a hammer until you know exactly what you are going to do and when you are going to do it throughout the entire duration of the project. If you are not going to do it yourself, start with you local yellow pages and look under "Home Remodeling".

If you are doing it yourself, start with a very detailed plan and don't even think about picking up a hammer until you know exactly what you are going to do and when you are going to do it throughout the entire duration of the project. If you are not going to do it yourself, start with you local yellow pages and look under "Home Remodeling".

2 My mother went through this. You don't even want to start the project until you have all of the new cabinets, flooring, accessories and so forth in. Otherwise it will take months if you do it piecemeal.

And then do as YoBob said, have a detailed plan with pictures, drawings, diagrams, etc.

My mother went through this. You don't even want to start the project until you have all of the new cabinets, flooring, accessories and so forth in. Otherwise it will take months if you do it piecemeal.

And then do as YoBob said, have a detailed plan with pictures, drawings, diagrams, etc.

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