As we did in the home kitchen, a difficult economy

Repair her kitchen to share with us in the reader Victoria from Samara.

Good day to everyone who makes or intends to make repairs. My name is Victoria, I live in the city of Samara. The story of how I went with my son Denis refreshed our kitchen and did not spent a lot of money.

repair idea germinated in the kitchen for a long time. Repairs in the apartment was made spontaneously and randomly, not the way the pros do once "turnkey". I was stretched ceiling, bed new linoleum, made the doorway instead of a door. With walls and electricity, nothing was done, and the walls in the kitchen and other rooms of the rough, plastered somehow, because 9-tietazhka built and surrendered in the late 90s. Outlets then put very little, in the kitchen, one double, ridiculous by today's standards. For electric outlet once paved the cable and put it washing machine and included in the spring season instantaneous water heater.

Finish - wallpaper, tiles over the sink - was disgusting, it was finishing equipment. Cheap, crumbling furniture hung at random, at a time when it is put, the son was a little age and older male relatives could not boast golden hands. This question we have already grown son talked for a long time, the money was, but a little, also does not want to arrange a great destruction, a kitchen because we use it every day! Familiar talk about some space amounts to 100 300 000, which did not affect the period of works. For the money a month to prepare and have not known how, what and where? Well, I do not!

Electricity

Start had yet to electricians. The question was solved surprisingly easy thanks to the professionalism of an electrician, which we found just on the Internet ad. Internet in general helps a lot in such a complicated case as repairs. The kitchen was installed a separate plate with three guns, one on the stove and a washing machine in the bathroom, the other at the outlet, the third on the hood and lighting cabinets. Yes, I wanted to increase our home park equipment and immediately acquire hood and dishwasher. It was not easy. As a result, on the wall opposite the one where there is an old outlet, there was a block of three sockets and switch for lighting cabinets, and cabinets hid socket hood and dishwasher. The basis for a new kitchen became a set price of 30 000 with facades from MDF.

Furniture

All cases except one, are located along the wall, and one on the table, it is very convenient to store bread and sweets. Cabinets are level, forming a perfect line from one wall to the other. At last. Achieves total absence of slits via connectors. The electric furnace was new and did not want to change it on the hob.

And as a manufacturer for some reason, it made the top edges rounded, then had to use not ordinary connector for worktops, and two end connected together to close the wide gap between the top and stove. Everything turned out, the connection went very dense, between the table and the stove no longer gets any debris or dirt. Tables and upper cupboards also pulled together by bolts for greater monolithic structure.

It turns out that ordinary set from the store, low price, can be a beautiful and functional! Suffice it well to assemble and install. It is better to choose a set-designer, for which there are many different elements.

Cabinets of different widths, sinks, cupboards, cabinets with drawers or doors, with a door or with two. This will provide the elements of an optimal design for your kitchen. Headsets, which are sold entirely and do not have a complete set of options will not let such an opportunity.

Old table has been restored on its own. He was very strong, made of wood. The table top has been replaced by a simple panel of chipboard, because the table was planned a maximum drink tea. Feet treated sandpaper and varnished - and the table was like new.

Tumba, which was used for storage of all business details, acquired a rack on which the flowers in pots. There they have enough light, and a rack of triangular shelves and chrome pipes look pretty next to the fridge.

Kitchen apron - the basic waste

It was chosen as a glass panel on a wall. Most companies in the city refused to do panel separately, they prefer to complete orders for the kitchen. To save, I had to look for. Panel cost in 25 thousand, but it was worth it. Under it was installed shield from chipboard, smooth out the irregularities of the walls, and have him screwed panel of several parts, stacked without a gap. Plugs for fixing screws are also mounts for the rod pulpit, which is now a lot of hooks in the kitchen useful things. Glass panel with a cheerful apple pattern was a wonderful thing! It is easy to clean, bright colors on it pleasing to the eye and in the afternoon, and the electric light.

Kitchen Appliances

Hood not able to establish the existing ventilation hole and penetrate new in another channel. Natural draft preserved, and when the unwanted odor instantly departs the pipe. The kitchen has become much cleaner, no greasy deposits on the glass cabinets and six months of using the hood appeared.

The final touch was a dishwasher. It was found that in the cupboard under the sink snaps virtually no model. Even after you replace the siphon to a special, adjustable height and angle of rotation. Fortunately, the Internet found a compact version of the dishwasher from the company Midea.

After it is installed in a cabinet under the sink was left virtually no extra centimeter! In this part of the baby only 2 sets of dishes, but for a family of 2 people missing when starting the machine after every meal, not to save the dishes inside. And since it per cycle consumes only 5 liters of water, a problem with it does not occur in the past month using the machine saves water was palpable.

Saved or not?

During repair, we tried to consider spending money to somehow summarize. Certain amounts in a couple of thousand, of course, could be overlooked, but is about the result overall estimate obtained by:

· Furniture, suites and all rework table and cabinets - 30 thousand.

· The glass panel on the wall, with all the work - 25 thousand.

· Electrical - 5 thousand.

· Wallpaper, painting, small things - 4 thousand.

· Appliances (dishwasher, oven) - 22 thousand.

· Total - 86 thousand.

Honestly, after this final amount I began to doubt that we have saved. But the son explained that firms that make turnkey, often ask a hundred thousand for one only furniture, and in the end it is not much better than the one that we have acquired. Together with technology, this amount is more than good. Much has been done by hand, and thus save money.

The kitchen, in my opinion, get cozy and functional. There are ideas for alteration, for example, make a small closet to hide the trash in it, and glue on the control panel and the lower door plate PVC-film with the same pattern as that of the lower cabinets. Important in this room, like the kitchen, it is: with every piece of furniture, furnishings, nothing should annoy the owner, only please.

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