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Define your size and layout
Tell us the square footage and whether you are keeping the appliances where they are or moving plumbing/appliances. This establishes your baseline mechanical and labor costs.
Free Kitchen Remodel Cost Calculator:Estimate Your Budget
Stop guessing and prevent contractor sticker shock. Enter your kitchen size, desired finish quality, and cabinet plans to get an instant, realistic budget breakdown for materials and labor. Free, instant, and no signup required.
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Set the kitchen budget before demolition starts.
You have your kitchen budget.Now, what will it actually look like?
Knowing you can afford a $30,000 kitchen remodel is a great first step. But spending that massive budget on cabinets, countertops, and backsplashes that end up clashing is a mistake you will have to stare at every single day.
Upload a photo of your current kitchen and see your exact renovation ideas-new cabinet colors, island layouts, and premium finishes-rendered in your actual space before you sign a contractor's bid or tear out your old sink.
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Why the kitchen is the easiest place to blow your budget.
Kitchens are the most expensive rooms to renovate because they combine high-end finish materials with heavy, specialized mechanical work.
Most homeowners start with a modest budget, but quickly fall into two massive financial traps: Replacing Cabinets (which can easily eat up 30% to 40% of the entire budget) and Layout Changes. Simply deciding to move a gas stove to the other side of the room or relocating a kitchen island sink requires rerouting gas lines, 220v electrical wires, and plumbing pipes behind the walls—adding thousands in specialized labor and permits.
Our kitchen remodel calculator keeps you grounded. By isolating your cabinet plans and layout changes, it gives you a realistic, data-backed estimate so you do not over-plan your design.
Simple inputs.One realistic kitchen budget.
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Lock in your cabinet and finish plans
Cabinets dictate the budget. Tell us if you are saving money by painting existing cabinets or buying brand new ones, and select your overall finish quality.
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Preview your new kitchen + get your estimate
Instantly visualize your remodeled space in a realistic AI render while seeing a detailed cost breakdown for materials, appliances, cabinetry, stone surfaces, and professional installation labor.
Honest estimates for layout changes
Keeping your sink and stove in their original spots is the ultimate money-saver.
By asking about your Layout Changes, our calculator dynamically factors in the expensive plumber and electrician fees required to reroute utilities, protecting you from hidden contractor change-orders.
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Cabinet cost logic built-in
You cannot estimate a kitchen without addressing the cabinets. Our tool explicitly asks for your Cabinet Plans. Toggling between "Painting existing" and "Replacing" will instantly show you how much money you can save by refinishing instead of doing a full tear-out.
Visualize the heart of thehome before demolition
It is incredibly hard to visualize how a dark island will look against white shaker cabinets and a marble backsplash using just tiny showroom samples.
Upload a photo of your kitchen, and our AI will render the exact color palette and materials realistically. Test your combinations before you buy the materials.
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DesignSense AI Everything You Need to Visualize Your Home Renovation
The kitchen render is just the start. Here's what's included in your free account:
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Common questions, answered
Unlike a bedroom where labor is mostly just painting, a kitchen requires purchasing highly expensive, tangible items: appliances (refrigerators, ranges), custom wooden cabinetry, and slab stone countertops (quartz, granite). These premium materials usually cost more than the hourly rate to install them.
Yes. Moving a sink requires opening the floor/walls to move water lines and the main drain pipe. Moving a stove requires rerouting a gas line or a high-voltage 220v electrical circuit. Both require licensed tradespeople and city permits, which can add $2,000 to $5,000 to your budget very quickly.
If your cabinet boxes are structurally sound and made of good wood, professionally painting them and adding new hardware can save you $5,000 to $15,000 compared to buying brand new cabinets, making it the best ROI in a budget kitchen remodel.
A kitchen has many competing elements—floors, cabinets, backsplash, counters, and paint. The AI render allows you to see all these elements layered together in your exact room's lighting, ensuring they harmonize perfectly before you place a non-refundable order for a slab of quartz.
A kitchen remodel is typically the most expensive and disruptive project in a home, combining high-end, permanent materials like custom cabinetry and stone countertops. The AI render allows you to visually test out different cabinet colors, island layouts, and backsplash combinations in your exact space before you sign a massive contractor bid, order non-refundable slabs of quartz, or commit to a design that you might regret seeing every single day.
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