Kitchen Remodel Cost Calculator
Compare actual remodeling scopes one line item at a time. Measure flooring separately, add supplier and contractor allowances for fixtures and trades, then see the impact of contingency without hiding any prices.
Kitchen Remodel Visual Design Planner
Pick cabinets, countertop, floor and backsplash looks. The live illustration changes with your choices and helps you review the design choices before taking physical measurements. It is a conceptual illustration, not a photograph of your home, a scaled kitchen layout or an AI image of exact purchasable products.
Samples, lighting and room proportions differ from a real installed kitchen.
The preview rounds the room footprint to two decimals. Verify dimensions on site before using them for materials.
Your renovation direction
Verify before installation
Cabinets, countertop and backsplash require their own verified measurements and product specifications; the illustrated palette does not provide them.
Next step: confirm cabinet lengths, counter dimensions, fixture clearances and manufacturer specifications. The illustration cannot certify a safe installation.
Photo-Assisted Wall & Floor Finish Preview
Select a photo from your device, try a guided wall/floor outline or mark the surface manually, then test a finish while retaining its existing light and shadow. The photo stays inside your browser: no account, upload, tracking endpoint or AI service is used.
An illustrative 2D mockup, not a photorealistic AI render, real product sample or measured installation plan.
What can this preview show—and what can't it?
Guided selection follows similar photographed colors: its soft mask may protect contrasting fixtures, but objects of a similar color can still be included. Four-corner patterns only approximate perspective. Check surfaces and real dimensions before buying materials or asking a contractor to install them.
Choose Wall or Floor, press the button, then tap a clear part of the surface in your photo. Drag the blue corners to refine the suggested area.
How do the outline, tolerance and mask work?
Lower tolerance matches fewer shades; higher tolerance includes more. The private, color-based helper proposes four corners and a soft mask, not true object recognition. For busy photos, manually mark the surface, enable the object-protection brush and exclude fixtures before applying.
Guided masks start from connected photo colors. Manual masks start with the whole outlined surface and let you protect fixtures with a brush. Turning this off applies the finish across the full outline.
After marking at least three points, add a local mask. Use Protect to exclude furniture, mirrors or fittings—even if their color matches the wall.
Protect removes finish from an object; Restore adds missed surface pixels. Draw directly on your photo.
Brush tips and how to undo corrections
A fixture matching the wall color may be included by mistake. You can undo or redo eight steps, reset corrections, and return to Edit corners to adjust the boundary. Restoring cannot paint outside the outline. Your original photo pixels are never changed.
Left: your selected finish. Right: the unedited original. The downloaded PNG always contains the complete edited result.
3. If using manual mode, tap or click around one visible surface in order (at least three points), or refine the guided four corners by dragging blue handles. The sample room supports instant presets without this step. Numeric fields also work with a keyboard; each point is a percentage of photo width/height.
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4. Your applied finishes
Select a finish to restyle, refine its outline or remove it without changing other surfaces.
How to edit a saved finish safely
Selecting a finish restores its color, pattern and visual settings. To change the shape or protect an object, choose Adjust selected outline, move the blue points or use the mask brush, then save. Cancel keeps the saved version intact.
The preview shows all applied finishes.
Inspection affects only the on-screen editor. Exports, your saved project and the contractor brief always retain every applied finish.
What can the finish history recover?
Undo/redo remembers up to eight applied finish changes in this tab, including removals and clearing all finishes. Draft points and mask brush strokes have separate controls. Opening a different photo or saved project starts a new history; history is not embedded in the downloaded project.
Single PNG export keeps your photo's proportions and detail up to 2400 pixels on its longer side. The labeled before/after PNG places two equal-scale views side by side, with each panel capped at 1200 × 1800 pixels for easy sharing.
Save or reopen an editable room project
A saved .json project includes a copy of your original photo, its surface outlines and masks, finish settings and notes. Keep this personal file private. Nothing is uploaded or saved to an account. Save only after applying finishes; unfinished draft points are not included.
What goes into the brief? How is my photo kept private?
The text brief lists visual finishes, installation questions and comparison items; it does not include your photo or calculate room dimensions. Share the PNG separately if you want. Only a successfully loaded new photo resets your finishes (your notes are retained); invalid files leave the current project intact. “Remove photo, finishes & notes” clears this local editor.
Choose your photo or try the sample to begin. No file is transmitted.
Blue handles, teal mask and selection outlines are editing guides, never part of the exported PNG. Check edges around fixtures before downloading.
Review your design and measure surfaces
Suggested quantity step for your selected finish: Interior Material Calculators. Measure the real wall or floor and check manufacturer coverage details; the photograph supplies neither dimensions nor a product specification.
Use actual room measurements and manufacturer specifications when reviewing the kitchen concept. This photo preview cannot verify fixture fit or installation requirements.
Continue your project estimate
Estimate flooring quantity →Build a kitchen budget from visible cost drivers
Cabinetry, counters, appliances, flooring, electrical, plumbing and labor can move independently. A useful kitchen remodel estimate therefore keeps editable rates and fixed extras visible instead of relying on a single national average.
Use separate scenarios for cosmetic work and larger scope changes rather than mixing them into one unexplained number.
- Use current supplier or contractor pricing.
- Keep fixed appliance or permit allowances explicit.
- Re-run after scope or finish selections change.
From visual concept to a kitchen contractor estimate
The kitchen planner above previews three visual palettes and four finishing decisions. The image is a concept illustration: no physical kitchen is modeled, and neither a palette nor room footprint establishes cabinet lengths, counter quantities or a local remodeling price. Build your concept first, then use the transfer button to place the measured floor area into the calculator underneath. Fill in cabinetry, countertop, appliances, trades and permits from actual comparable quotations. This avoids counting invented price bands as contractor estimates.
Before ordering, check the kitchen remodel planning sequence, the flooring quantity calculator, and the tile calculator. For surfaces around a wet sink or a hot cooking range, choose products and installation systems that meet the relevant requirements; the preview does not check suitability.
Why an itemized kitchen budget is more useful than cost per square foot
Kitchen remodels with similar floor areas can have radically different scopes. Painting and replacing hardware is not the same job as replacing cabinetry, moving plumbing, running new electrical circuits, or installing custom countertops. A single price-per-square-foot estimate disguises those decisions. This estimator instead keeps cabinets, appliances, countertops and flooring separate from plumbing, electrical, installation, removal and permitting allowances.
Start with an actual room measurement for flooring. For all other lines, enter your supplier or contractor quote directly. If a trade quote includes fittings, materials or fixtures, do not add those amounts again under another category. If a project item is not part of your scope, leave its allowance blank.
Worked kitchen remodel example (illustrative figures only)
Consider a kitchen with 150 square feet of floor area. At $4 per square foot of flooring and an extra 10 percent of flooring material, purchasing area is 165 square feet and the flooring allowance is $660. Add $4,000 cabinets, $2,200 countertops and $1,400 appliances. Material and fixture allowances total $8,260.
Add $500 plumbing, $500 electrical and $2,500 installation for $3,500 in trade allowances; add $600 demolition and $200 permits. The subtotal is $12,560. Ten percent contingency adds $1,256, making the illustrative project budget $13,816. These are deliberately example inputs, not verified local price ranges. Replace every number with your own quote.
Compare two remodeling scenarios fairly
For a cosmetic refresh, leave the cabinetry replacement, plumbing relocation or appliance allowances at zero when they are not needed. For a larger renovation, fill in the quoted work you actually plan to undertake. Keep floor area, included items and contingency method consistent if you want a meaningful difference between scenarios. Copy your inputs before resetting the form if you want to compare two versions manually.
The contingency percentage applies once to the subtotal, after all priced items have been added. When no prices have been entered, the tool will not invent a zero-dollar renovation estimate.
Related material planning tools
For material quantities before pricing, use the Tile Calculator, Paint Calculator and Flooring Calculator. Review How to Compare Contractor Quotes to make sure bids include the same work.