Kitchen Remodel Budget Calculator
Plan your kitchen remodel budget across all categories
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Kitchen Remodel Budget Calculator is built for planning your kitchen remodel budget across all categories — fast, free, and private. Enter your values in any order — Kitchen Remodel Budget recalculates on every edit. In Kitchen Remodel Budget the working sits beside the answer. Anyone comparing options in Home & Garden can use Kitchen Remodel Budget to compare scenarios. Kitchen Remodel Budget runs in your browser. Home & Garden data stays in the tab. Kitchen Remodel Budget handles kitchen remodel budget calculator the same way as free online kitchen remodel budget calculator — one of the Home & Garden tools on CalcProMaster. Kitchen Remodel Budget shows formula, assumptions and result together. Kitchen Remodel Budget answers the next Home & Garden question you meet.
What the defaults give
A medium kitchen at mid-range quality is $40,000.
The split is 29% cabinets ($11,600), 25% labour ($10,000), 14% appliances ($5,600), 10% countertops ($4,000), 10% lighting and plumbing ($4,000), 7% flooring ($2,800) and 5% other ($2,000).
How the budget is built
Total budget × category percentage = category allowance
The percentages follow the shape of a typical mid-market kitchen: cabinetry is the single largest line because it is both material and joinery labour, and the trades together (labour, lighting, plumbing) come to about a third. Appliance spend is smaller than most people expect on a first pass — it is the line that escalates fastest when a design changes.
Worked examples
Medium, mid-range → $40,000
Small, mid-range → $30,000
Large, mid-range → $55,000
Medium, budget → $20,000
Medium, premium → $80,000
Quality moves the number more than size does. Going from budget to premium at medium size quadruples the budget, while going from small to large at mid-range adds less than half. That is worth knowing before deciding to knock through a wall: the finish you choose dominates the cost.
Where budgets actually break
Three lines absorb the overruns. The first is services: moving a sink or a cooker point means new pipework, new cable and possibly a new circuit, none of which appears in a cabinet quote. The second is structural work — removing a wall, adding a beam, upgrading a consumer unit. The third is the surprise behind the plasterboard: damp, old wiring, a vented boiler flue.
A contingency of 10% covers small surprises; 15-20% is more realistic when the room is being gutted or the house is old. This calculator does not add one, so hold it separately rather than treating $40,000 as the ceiling.
Getting the estimate closer
Ask two or three fitters for an itemised quote rather than a lump sum, and compare the same categories this tool uses. A quote that is 20% cheaper usually means a different cabinet carcass, a thinner worktop or labour priced at an unrealistic day rate. Design fees, permits, delivery, skips and making good after the trades are separate again.
If the total is fixed, work backwards: decide the cabinet allowance first, because it is the item that can be value-engineered without touching the layout.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a medium kitchen remodel cost?
$40,000 at mid-range quality. Small is $30,000 and large $55,000 at the same quality level.
What percentage goes to cabinets?
29%, or $11,600 on a $40,000 budget. Cabinetry is the largest single line because it includes both materials and joinery labour.
Does size or finish level matter more?
Finish level. Going from budget to premium quadruples the budget at medium size, while going from small to large adds less than half.
Is contingency included?
No. Add 10-20% separately. Gutted rooms and older houses tend to find wiring, damp or flue problems that no quote anticipates.
Are appliances included?
They are a 14% allowance ($5,600 here). If you want a professional range or built-in refrigeration, that line will not cover it.
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