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Kitchen Remodel Cost Calculator

Pick a scope, a finish level and your kitchen’s size, and see the range with its breakdown. No email, no phone number.

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The tool

Price your remodel

Material
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Floor area of the kitchen itself, not the whole open-plan room it sits in. The American average is roughly 160 to 200 sq. ft., and a galley in an older house is often half that.

Add-ons the bid will carry

Indicative multipliers only. The spread inside a region is often wider than the spread between regions.

Estimated installed cost

$16,900 – $23,600

$93.75 – $131.25 per square foot, installed

Base, material and labor
$16,900 – $23,600
Total
$16,900 – $23,600
Materials
$9,300 – $13,000
Labor and overhead
$7,600 – $10,600

How it works

Where this kitchen remodel cost calculator gets its numbers

One dataset holds the cost of each remodel scope per square foot of kitchen, how long its result typically serves, and the share of that cost which is product rather than labor. One calculation module reads it, and every kitchen figure on this site comes out of that module: the cost guide tables and this calculator.

A kitchen is priced by scope rather than by material, because the room is a basket of trades arriving together: cabinets, counters, plumbing, electrical, flooring, paint. The scope you pick decides how many of those trades show up, and that decides the bill more than any single finish.

  • Each scope prices the full basket of trades it involves, per square foot of kitchen.
  • A finish level selects a slice of that scope’s own range: cabinet construction, counter material, appliance grade.
  • Add-ons are a share of the base cost: appliances, a counter upgrade, moving plumbing or gas, removing a wall, new flooring, lighting and ventilation.
  • Measure the kitchen itself, not the open-plan room it sits in. The American average runs 160 to 200 sq. ft.

What it cannot know

What this kitchen remodel cost calculator does not know

Every figure here is a national bracket per square foot of kitchen. A remodel’s real variance lives in decisions and discoveries this page cannot see.

Whether the layout moves
Keeping the sink, stove and fridge where they are keeps plumbing, gas and venting where they are. Moving any of them turns a facelift into construction, and the add-on prices the typical move, not a full redesign.
What demolition finds
Undersized wiring, corroded shutoffs, vent stacks in the wall you wanted gone, floors that are not level. Older houses carry more of these, and honest contractors carry a contingency line for them.
Your appliance ambitions
The appliance add-on covers a mainstream package. A 48-inch range and a built-in refrigerator can outcost the cabinets, and no bracket survives a showroom visit.
How long you can live around it
A kitchen remodel is weeks of takeout and dust. Phasing the work stretches the calendar and the budget; doing it in one pass is cheaper and worse to live through. The tool prices the work, not the siege.

Using it well

How to use the estimate against a kitchen remodel quote

Set the scope honestly before collecting bids, because bids for different scopes cannot be compared. The most common kitchen budgeting mistake is pricing a refresh and specifying a gut.

A bid well below the range is usually missing trades: counters but no electrical, cabinets but no patching and paint. A bid above it should itemize where the money concentrates, and in a kitchen it concentrates in cabinets and counters.

Ask every bidder for the allowances in writing: the dollar figures assumed for cabinets, counters and appliances. Allowances are where a fixed-looking price stays soft, and comparing them is comparing the real bids.

For reference

Every kitchen remodel scope the calculator prices

The bands the calculator runs on, per square foot of kitchen, cabinets and appliances included.

Scope Installed cost per square foot, installed Lifespan Who it suits
Cosmetic refresh $75 – $150 10 – 15 years Doors and drawer fronts, counters, paint, hardware and a new sink. Nothing moves, nothing opens, and the layout you have is the layout you keep.
Mid-range remodel $150 – $250 15 – 25 years New cabinets, counters, appliances and finishes in the existing footprint. What most American kitchen remodels actually are.
Upscale remodel $250 – $350 20 – 30 years Semi-custom or custom cabinetry, stone counters, panel-ready appliances. The budget shifts decisively toward the product and away from the crew.
Layout change $200 – $450 20 – 30 years Moving the sink, the range or a wall. Every relocated service is plumbing, electrical, permits and a longer schedule, which is why it costs what it costs.

Appliances at the top of a line will push a project past these brackets on their own.

This calculator returns indicative national brackets, not a quote. Your number depends on the scope you choose, what demolition uncovers, your appliance and finish selections and your local market. Use it to judge a bid, not to replace one.

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