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Kitchen renovation - suggestions for microwave cooking?

Apr 22, 2008 by TotalRecipeHound | Posted in Cooking & Recipes

My relative is planning a kitchen renovation for the summer. Most meals will be cooked either on the grill or in a microwave. Can anybody recommend a book on microwave cooking that is GOOD!? I've had a couple of microwave cooking cookbooks in the past, but the results were less than great, so got rid of them. Suggestions welcome. They can't grill when it is raining or windy because it is an unprotected area.

We just finished (well almost) a complete kitchen rennovation. We did a lot of the work ourselves so it took a lot longer than we expected. We moved our old regrigerator to the laundry room, and we had an old electric frying pan, an outside grill, a crockpot and a microwave. We eventually bought a toaster oven and a 2 burner butane hotplate. Basically, we cooked about everything that we would normally cook in a real kitchen on those few appliances.

Other than corn and popcorn, I really didn't use my microwave for much except reheating leftovers. I used the crockpot a lot which was quick and easy, but the toaster oven and hotplate were the two things I used the most.

Tell your relative to invest in a toaster oven with temperature controls. We baked everything in there, from baked potatoes to small roasts. Also, tell her to add at least 2 months to any renovation project...it always takes longer than you think it will. Tell her it will all be worth it in the end. I still have a concrete floor, but I LOVE my new kitchen.

Best of luck!!

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by pongsak2

Before thinking about investments or making you way to generate profit from “buy-renovate-sale” idea, first it may be useful to think about possible “pro’s” and “con’s” regarding the home renovation in general and flipping house in particular. Here are few points to consider:

Number one – The potential of property. This should be thorough analyzed before moving forward. With 3L approach (location, location, location) there are also other factors that will affect the project plan and return on investment. The quality of environment and neighborhood is mostly driven by location and price category that will require corresponding quality and level of renovations. There is no sense to invest, let say, 50,000 in kitchen upgrade if house cost is less that two hundred, for example. The potential of any property, optimistically, is very rare more then third (or quoter) part of initial price, even in foreclosure case. Consult you real estate agent to find out the sold properties in area. After, ask to provide the prices, that they were bought for by previous owners. This will give the idea about trends and overall brackets for price fluctuations in particular area. This biggest mistake in better case scenario can cost people barely covering the expanses when they buy property, invest in renovation and selling that after. Basically, it means that mistake was made when house was bought, not sold.

Number two – Know what renovations you are going to do. Again, turn around and assess the property potential before demolition. This is good when it can be easily re-planned, but this is bad when, for example, wall you want to remove happened to be supporting and you should use engineered and therefore, costly alternatives, to keep structural strength of the house . From other side, just fresh paint and floor sanding alone will not really bring additional value to property and will not gain much in price difference.

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Big Kitchen Plans / Opening a Book Store

by Karen

As in $25,000 to $50,000 dollars overpriced!! (Doesn’t that thousand rightful down your cardinal joyride? It makes my nut jolt up so much I absolutely have to induce planner fact back into my ears).

So … we have wistfully dreamed of the day we might get rid of our dusky 70’s-splendour cabinets and upgrade our old and ghastly appliances.

But that day, my friends, is now.

We have enough profit in our savings account that we can pay spondulicks for our renovation AS Extended AS it’s not exceedingly overpriced. As in . So, for kicks and grins, we went to Lowe’s yesterday to salivate over their kitchen displays and to get a composite ballpark mentioned on how much it would cost if we say, Foster the brainwork of someone truly coming in and demolishing our cabinets and rebuilding us some beautiful, classy cabinets. (We had been thoughtful of recovering them before).

So, we sat down with Bill and Bill asked us the dimensions of our kitchen and other divers repetitive questions and using his black art kitchen software, he put an belief together for us. And honest as he was about to chide us the magnetic platoon?

His computer crashed.

Oh no, Mr. Bill! Bill was not in seventh heaven, to say the least.

So, we pink to run some more errands and moral ole Bill ran the whole outline back through his program.

In the meantime, we ran to Harter Family to collar some line steak for fajitas (which were DEE-LISH, by the way, at bottom because Kevin cooked them because HELLO? Reward? I only cook things that I can claw at out of a can) and started engaging turns on freaking each other out about how much we expectation this renovation would bring in us. By the pass we arrived back at Lowe’s, we had already half written off the whole approximation because we were convinced it was prosperous to be way out of our budget.

We sat back down at Bill’s desk and awaited our verdict.

He had printed off diversified graphs and charts showing us the dimensions of our kitchen and began talking about a variety of options (do we be deficient in someone else to do the demo for an in addition $300? Oh heck yes, so importance the mazuma for not having to do it ourselves), do we lust after any earth-shaking drawers, do we thirst hem, do we hanker after an greatest above our go down … etc.

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