| We renovated our kitchen last year and saved about | | | | the kitchen. This did not include appliances. We had all |
| two thousand dollars on kitchen cabinets. We had a | | | | new appliances from previous wedding gifts and |
| budget of about ten thousand dollars for our kitchen | | | | house warming items. We looked at several kitchen |
| project and we assumed that most of that would be | | | | cabinet brands and also surfed online. We found |
| used for kitchen cabinets. We didn't want to skimp | | | | some great looking cabinets, but were appalled at |
| on the quality, but really couldn't afford to go with | | | | the prices. We knew we would be spending a lot of |
| the expensive name brands. What we found online | | | | money, but this part of our project (the kitchen |
| surprised us and literally cut our budget in half. | | | | cabinets) was taking over seventy percent (70%) of |
| We were set to buy Aristokraft cabinets. They are a | | | | our budget. We thought we had no other choice and |
| name brand, very nice and very expensive. Our | | | | were about to commit to these cabinets, when a |
| budget was seven thousand ($7,000) for kitchen | | | | stroke of luck led us in another direction. |
| cabinets and three thousand ($3,000) for the rest of | | | | |