Reno Diaries: A $150,000 Kitchen Renovation in West Palm Beach, Florida

Linda Jayne’s mid-’90s ranch-type dwelling in West Palm Beach front served the loved ones very well for far more than 20 yrs as she and her partner raised their three youngsters. During that time, they barely did any renovation perform inside of, focusing in its place on barns for their horses! But after two a long time, Linda made the decision it was time for an update. For her new kitchen, she wished a polished, vintage look and she entrusted inside designer Heather Weisz of HW Interiors to get it carried out. 

Heather and her team made a program to rebuild the kitchen area from scratch and develop a heat and welcoming area with clean up strains. The renovation took a few months and price tag all-around $150,000 to comprehensive, but Linda claims it was really worth just about every penny. “I was blown absent,” she says. It was almost everything she hoped for, “and then some.”

Once Linda signed off on the design and style approach, the contractors came in and tore all the things down to the studs. (The demo by itself cost $9,000, in circumstance you are thinking.) Following, they expanded the laundry room and extra a sliding doorway to preserve the region individual.

Back again in the kitchen, they put in gleaming new engineered hardwood floors (crucial in Florida’s humid climate!), tailor made cupboards, and a new island with waterfall countertops to create a modern-day foundation.

They also put in new appliances, which includes a attractive 36-inch Wolf induction stove. Linda says getting the oven was 1 of her greatest conclusions — and it virtually did not occur. When she was hunting at appliances, she recollects indicating, “I never want a lot of an oven. I’m not a quite very good cook dinner.” Her husband pointed out that they have been producing a gorgeous kitchen, so “Why would you just have a tiny oven?” 

Deciding upon the more substantial, chef-quality oven turned out to be fortuitous because they concluded the kitchen area not very long right before the pandemic started. With so significantly time invested at house, “I finished up cooking so considerably more and now I enjoy it so a great deal additional,” Linda says. “I like to cook dinner there and if I experienced completed what I was heading to do, it almost certainly wouldn’t have been near as nice.”

As for paint, Heather selected Benjamin Moore’s Hale Navy to lend the island a pop of innovative shade in opposition to the cleanse, crisp Chantilly Lace on the cupboards, and framed the variety hood in the similar blue. (Side be aware: Punching up the kitchen with an accent coloration on the island or some other depth is a good move that can be replicated in any measurement renovation spending plan.)

Brushed brass accents and hand-blown gentle fixtures also pop. (And components alterations like that are yet another way to ratchet up the drama with no the corresponding invoice!)

The finish consequence is just as breathtaking as you’d expect. “I try to remember contemplating when we had been all locked down all through COVID, how blessed are my partner and myself to be capable to be … in this property,” she says. “It was just so, so awesome and I continually would say thank you so a lot, I would textual content [the designers] and say thank you.”