According to Apartment Therapy, If there’s one piece of advice homeowners provide time and time again for major kitchen renovations, it’s to plan for extra: extra time, extra materials, and, of course, extra budget needed to finish the project.
That rang true in Rebecca Reece’s kitchen transformation. When she and her family were planning their kitchen reno, they had only seen photos of the space and didn’t realize exactly how much work it would take to give the kitchen a new lease on life. “Have a very big buffer pot!” Rebecca advises. But she also says “the after is [her] dream space,” so in the end, the time and major dollar signs were worth it.
Rebecca and her husband and three children’s home is a farmhouse built in 1804, and Rebecca says it had seen years of botched DIY jobs. “It was damp, cold, and structurally unsound,” Rebecca says. It needed extensive professional work to make sure it was safe to use. “The kitchen started with being completely stripped back to brick and sand floor,” Rebecca explains.
The vision was to extend the kitchen to the right and make one large living, kitchen, and dining area, including a playroom. Almost the entire back of the house had to be demolished and rebuilt, “as it was so structurally unsound,” Rebecca says.
