Lowes Kitchen Cabinets Part Trois
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Housing |
Not that I’m harping on "Lowes Kitchen Cabinets" as the best but rather I’m sharing some cost saving tips I learned less I forget.
Once again.
The first time Elder provided me with a quote on the Shenandoah Cabinets, it was $5500. Remember my budget was $5000 (including tax). Inquiring of Elder what can be done to reduce this cost, she simply stated "Change the finish."
Even the pre-fab cabinets have various finishes on them. Not that I could really tell by first glance. The type of wood I picked out was called "Maple Coffee Glaze". To my limited knowledge of naming conventions, I thought "Coffee Glaze" was like "Quiet Splendor".
For Elder to say "Go from Coffee Glaze to Spice Coffee" is the equivalent of saying "Well go from Quiet Splendor to Noisy Splendor"
What’s the difference?
About $1000.
Along with a measurement mistake on my part, the actual price fell to around $3800. Delivered to my door.
To my naked eye, I could not perceive a difference between the two samples in the store. Unless a perspective tenant uses a 5,000 Watt spotlight to careful examine the cabinets I doubt highly if they will notice the difference.
If they do, I’ll ask them to leave before their miniature "sun" burns a hole in my cabinets.
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You are using the 10% coupon also aren’t you?
Also, did you get the credit card that gives you 3% back on home improvement purchases?
http://www.livelearninvest.com/2006/04/26/new-credit-card-deal/
Kenric, when I went to the cash register and pulled out my coupon the lady informed me it had expired. July 19th was my deadline for using it and it was the 20th. I nearly kicked myself senseless: that was nearly $400 that walked out the door.
Good to know about the finish color! I’m going to be cabinet shopping at Lowe’s soon, too. I love the 20% coupons I bought! It’s a royal pain in the ass to wait in line while the flustered cashier figures out how to ring up my purchases with the coupon. But, it’s worth it in the end!
Trisha, you are truly getting a kick out of those coupons! It’s too bad you couldn’t have teleported one last week. I could have saved some serious cash.
I’m re-doing a house in Tempe and I will be cabinet shopping at Lowes this week. I have not received a 10 percent off coupon recently, darn it!
The American Woodmark cabinets at Home Depot looked poorly constructed and American Woodmark has gotten some really bad reviews of their construction quality recently. I’m hoping the Shenandoah series at Lowes are better.
Any finish name with the word “glaze” in it costs a lot more. A simple Honey Maple or Spice Maple will be going into this house.