Affordable Kitchen Upgrades: Transform Your Kitchen On a Small Budget (Creative Homeowner) Easy Improvements for Cabinets, Storage Spaces, Countertops, Sinks, Faucets, Lighting, Flooring, and More

by Steve Cory, Diane Slavik

The ultimate guide to improving your kitchen! Find step-by-step instructions Kitchen remodeling projects can be expensive, but there are alternatives to a full-scale renovation. Learn how to transform your kitchen on a small budget! Affordable Kitchen Upgrades provides alternatives to costly remodeling by supplying inexpensive design ideas and easy how-to projects that will make a vast impact on the look and the functionality of your kitchen. Covering a wide variety of projects, from replacing the pulls and hinges on cabinetry to installing new countertops, Affordable Kitchen Upgrades will show you how any homeowner can improve a kitchen. Then you can decide whether to make several improvements all at once or space them out to accommodate your time and budget. This book covers DIY upgrades to cabinetry, including increasing storage options; countertops and backsplashes; sinks and faucets; lighting and electrical upgrades; and flooring. You'll find over 700 photos and illustrations alongside dozens of easy step-by-step adding glass to a door, refacing cabinets, making an island, adding trash can slide-outs, installing a lazy Susan, applying countertop coating, installing cable lights, replacing a dishwasher, painting a floor pattern, installing ceramic-tile flooring, and many more. Each of these home improvement projects provides an incremental change that can make a big impact on your kitchen's appearance and utility. Learn about the latest design looks and styles; replace cabinetry hardware; upgrade, or better yet, reface cabinetry; install a new countertop and backsplash; replace your sink and faucet; increase your kitchen storage options; upgrade your lighting; install new flooring, and more, all with Affordable Kitchen Upgrades !

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 2012

Reviews

[Laurla2]

-i checked out a bunch of kitchen books from the library to look for ideas for backsplashes. this book had only 17 pages in that chapter and wasn't helpful there.

-i also peaked at the under-sink organizers section and saw an under-sink rubber mat made to catch any leaks. i've been afraid to put anything in the new cabinet under my new kitchen sink in case there is a leak and i miss it. i googled and there's a whole bunch of different kinds of undersink mats out there!

[Laura Hall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some creative ideas on storage that were helpful

[Maike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picked up some good ideas from this one for my vintage low budget kitchen.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far the best book on kitchen make-overs that I’ve read. It includes technical things for the do-it-yourselfer such as installing lighting, kitchen appliances, and flooring, but is also extremely useful for the variety of products and ideas shown. In the back of the book is a reference list by page for product sources. Unfortunately lacks photos of kitchens with vaulted ceilings. The chapter on storage options was my favorite.

[Miki · Rating 2 out of 5]

as usual, I'm amazed at how some people define "affordable". Other than that, I found a couple of ideas I might be able to modify for my (more realistic) budget.

[Jan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A really nice book and fun to look at but, to me, affordable is something I may be able to do myself. The upgrades seemed more elaborate than that. Affordable is relative, I know.