Before and During Kitchen Reno

Before , lovely pink walls and yellow cupboards. Benchtop was a black chipboard with a blue vinyl top :


Bought a name brand (Farquhar) kitchen second hand off Gumtree. This involved dismantling out of their place and putting it on their lawn:


And then packing it all into one of these:


Then demolished ours;

Then built new one :


900mm stainless steel oven/stove was from Gumtree too. Guarantee no one else in this suburb has one. Prob worth more than the house

3 days involved so far in picking up other one, demolishing and installing ours.

Still need to add kickboards, splashback and dishwasher and get old taps removed.

This is part of a whole house Reno, so will post after photo and rest of the house photos and costings later on when it's done.

And big thanks to @DaveM for helping!

 

Installing kitchens in old houses where nothing is square is fun

Amazing what you can find on Gumtree, its my favourite place for cheap kitchens for low end renos

 

Looking good D.T., keep the pictures coming!

 

Great bargain hunting!
Is it a pain pulling out the gumtree kitchen? Do the owners help you?
Find any surprises or body parts?

 

Was good bargain hunting, $700 for the kitchen (included cupboards, laminate top and rangehood under the overheads) and $500 for the 900mm stainless steel upright oven/stove. No bonus body parts though :/

DaveM helped pull the other one out of their house, the owner did help too. It was a bit tricky (I'm not really very handy), but most of the work was in carrying it all out to the van.

 

What do they just put in a new kitchen each month? ? Keep them in speed dial
When pulling stuff apart to salvage it would be hard to resist the urge to take a sledge hammer to it

 

Nah they were just doing big extension and their new kitchen was in their new section of the house. I got my demolition fix out of the one I replaced

 

Hahah different seller

 

Any final pic?

 

Haven't had time to go finish it lately between running my business and working on 2 other properties.

In the same house this thread is about, just had a wall built by a builder to divide rumpus in half to create a 4th bedroom.

 

Removing a couple of blades from the ceiling fan was an ingenious idea, fits perfectly

Kitchen Reno looks great btw

 

My idea was actually for the builder to leave a 5cm tall gap at the top so that the fan could still spin

Nah, i have an electrician relocating it of course, and adding a light to the newly created room

 

Blue benchtop, I know it was a thrifty purchase, but for an additional $4-500 I would have got a lighter coloured Cesarstone faux type benchtop..

 

Its black and looks quite nice, my phone camera is perhaps a little crappy

 

Its a dark charcoaly blue.... and yes it looks quite nice. i had the same benches in my ppor.

No need for new benches.

 

A better pic