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him. Matt doing the work himself saved us almost 50 percent of the • cost of ready-made cabinets.
Also, you wouldn’t think new lighting would make that big of a difference, for less than $50, however, we installed two fluorescent light fixtures that not only triple the brightness of the room, but decrease our energy bill as well. The lighting installation also took less than two hours.
I mentioned earlier that we almost have a bright, cheery, completely functional kitchen. The “almost” is the only drawback I see to do-it-yourself work. For the last two months, our kitchen has “almost" been finished. It’s not that the work is overly time consuming, it’s just that some weekends were sunny and more suitable for a breezy drive through the mountains than they were for installing cabinets. And it’s always better to go to dinner and a movie after work than it is to finish painting.
In real work time, the process should have taken us about four dedicated work weekends. With all of our entertainment distractions, though, it’s been almost five months since we started the kitchen. That’s not such a long time, however, when I consider that our friend, the guy who hired a contractor, waited about four months for his kitchen to be completed.
As far as the remodling work itself, we had fun doing it. Most of the time, It would have been
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