Estimate your kitchen remodel cost by size and quality tier — see a full line-item breakdown, cost per square foot, budget vs luxury, and resale ROI.
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A kitchen remodel is one of the biggest home projects most people take on, and costs swing widely — from a few thousand dollars for a cosmetic refresh to well over $100,000 for a luxury gut renovation. The national average in 2026 lands around $27,000–$35,000, with most full remodels falling between $15,000 and $75,000. This calculator gives you a realistic ballpark for your kitchen: enter the size and the quality tier you have in mind, and it estimates your total cost and range, breaks it down by line item (cabinets, labor, appliances, countertops, and more), compares budget through luxury tiers, and estimates how much value you'd recoup at resale. Enter your home value too and it checks your budget against the 5–15% rule of thumb. It's a free starting point — not a substitute for contractor quotes.
Kitchen remodels are usually priced per square foot by quality tier: a budget/cosmetic update runs about $75–$150 per square foot, mid-range $150–$250, high-end $250–$400, and luxury $400–$600+. For a typical 150–200 sq ft kitchen, that puts a mid-range remodel near $30,000–$40,000. Where does the money go? Cabinets are the single biggest expense at roughly 30% of the budget, followed by labor and installation at about 25%, appliances and ventilation around 14%, countertops about 10%, and flooring about 7%; the rest covers lighting and electrical, plumbing and fixtures, and design. Cabinet pricing alone ranges from about $100–$500 per linear foot for stock, $150–$900 semi-custom, and $500–$1,200 custom. The classic '10×10' kitchen (100 sq ft) is the industry's reference size and typically runs $20,000–$25,000 mid-range. A widely used budgeting rule is to spend 5–15% of your home's value on a kitchen — about $20,000–$60,000 on a $400,000 home.
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Set a realistic budget before designing or hiring a contractor for a complete kitchen renovation.
Compare a budget refresh against a high-end remodel to decide how far to go.
Compare a contractor's bid against typical per-square-foot and line-item costs.
Estimate the industry-standard 100 sq ft kitchen at any quality level.
See how cabinets, countertops, and appliances each affect the total.
Estimate resale value added to decide whether to remodel before selling.
Get a low-to-high estimate for your kitchen's size and quality tier before you call a contractor.
A full line-item breakdown shows cabinets, labor, appliances, countertops, flooring, and more.
See what the same kitchen would cost at budget, mid-range, high-end, and luxury tiers.
Estimates how much of the cost you'd recoup at resale — minor remodels recoup the most.
Enter your home value and see whether your budget fits the standard share-of-home-value guideline.
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In 2026, the national average is about $27,000–$35,000, with most full remodels between $15,000 and $75,000. A cosmetic refresh can start near $10,000–$15,000, while high-end and luxury gut renovations run $100,000–$200,000 or more. The total depends mostly on your kitchen's size and the quality of materials.
Budget/cosmetic work runs about $75–$150 per square foot, mid-range $150–$250, high-end $250–$400, and luxury $400–$600+. Multiply by your kitchen's square footage for a ballpark — a 150 sq ft mid-range kitchen is roughly $22,500–$37,500.
Cabinets are usually the single biggest expense, around 30% of the budget, followed by labor and installation at about 25%. Appliances (about 14%) and countertops (about 10%) come next. That's why cabinet choices — stock, semi-custom, or custom — drive a large share of the total.
A $10,000 budget covers a cosmetic refresh — paint, hardware, a new faucet and countertop, refinished or refaced cabinets, and minor updates, usually in a small kitchen. Around $30,000 is a solid mid-range remodel for an average kitchen, with new cabinets, countertops, appliances, and flooring but no major layout changes.
A common guideline is 5–15% of your home's value. On a $400,000 home that's about $20,000–$60,000. Spending much more than ~15–20% risks over-improving for your neighborhood, which can hurt your return at resale.
Budget uses stock cabinets, laminate counters, and basic appliances. Mid-range adds semi-custom cabinets, quartz or granite counters, and quality appliances. High-end and luxury bring custom cabinetry, premium stone, pro-grade appliances, and often layout changes — each tier roughly doubles the per-square-foot cost.
Kitchen remodels recoup about 70–80% of cost at resale on average. A minor, midrange remodel has the best return — often 70–110%+ — because it modernizes the kitchen affordably. Major upscale remodels recoup less, around 40–55%, since the high spend isn't fully reflected in resale price.
Keep the existing layout to avoid moving plumbing and electrical, reface or paint cabinets instead of replacing them, choose stock or semi-custom cabinets, pick durable mid-priced countertops like quartz, and reuse appliances that still work. Labor and cabinets are the biggest levers, so savings there move the total the most.