“I don’t even bake, but I just want it to sit pretty on my kitchen counter,” an X user stated in a comment. One Reddit user even called it a “work of art” in an r/KitchenAid thread.
pretty well sums up the new $700 kitchenaid mixer with a walnut wood bowl.
I read about that. It seems impractical!
If your remodeling a kitchen and they can cost 10’s of thousands of $$ what the hell is $ 700
More money than sense, it seems.
As someone who spent over 100k renovating a kitchen I totally concur. If it was only a 3 figure adjustment we didn’t discuss it at all.
That being said the walnut bowl is gorgeous
Yes, it is attractive. Having to wash it by hand whenever you use it is very unattractive.
Pretty, but still underpowered, and that walnut bowl will be scratched to hell in no time.
Lots of that. Seems like everyone who buys a place in my building tears the unit completely out. And it’s not an old building. I particularly loathe movie set kitchens. Lookat me!
Wow, how big is the kitchen?
6 years ago I did a remodel not that big a kitchen over 125k , new appliances , cabinets , counters no major construction average price in NJ for a remodel
It’s all relative, quite obviously. We still occasionally question whether our (admittedly stunning) bathroom remodel was worth it 
Although they seemed extravagant when we undertook them, we still love our kitchen (9 years ago) and bathroom (4 years ago) remodels, but they were relatively inexpensive compared with what others have encountered. My brother did some OMG remodels, and I really prefer how ours came out. The lift bowl KA with its lowly steel bowl sits in a counter corner. I shall have it make its own birthday cake when it turns fifty in two years. It has not asked for a wooden bowl.
I redid my kitchen 20 years ago. New countertops, new appliances (which have all been replaced again) a new huge sink, and the cabinets were refaced with beautiful trim going up the bulkheads. And some glass door cabinets and roll-out pots and pans drawers installed. I’m good ‘til I croak … or ‘til the appliances croak again. There was nothing that could be done about the kitchen’s configuration, except swapping out a midget corner 2 bowl sink which didn’t hold anything for the bathtub I replaced it with. I have my mother’s KA mixer; I suspect it’s at least 40 years old. My cuisinart is old and small and yeah, I got the blade recall. I don’t want or need anything larger or fancier. I would like to redo the bathroom; it needs it, and I’d like to put in accessibility/safety stuff. But I dread it.
Now it’s roughly 12x 25 feet. Previous owners put on a family room and a bedroom with bathroom addition which left the old 3 rd bedroom as wasted space. It was the play area when the kids were little but we took down that wall and have more kitchen
Before we escaped Seattle, there was a house next door that sold 3 times in 5 years. The original owners remodeled the kitchen (and replaced all lighting and appliances) once just before they sold, and then each successive owner completely and extensively remodeled again as soon as they closed.
We went to all the open houses, and most of this money was wasted.
We did our kitchen and all the bathrooms at the same time and moved out. We knew if we put off doing ours it would never happen
And I’m still finding reno dust in the strangest places 18 months later. . .
I’m in a condo high rise. Moving out would be problematic for me and my cats … the units on either side of me had gut renos. Each went on for almost a year. I wish I could have moved out. It was unlivable.
Nice. Thanks for the info. We renovated our kitchen about 12 (more?) years ago, but I think we’re in a much lower COL area, especially given @Ragtopssk’s comment about $125K.
Ours is (and was, originally) very similar in size, 12x23, and we spent about $35K including new appliances. I thought that was horrible at the time, but I guess a lot of that sticker shock was because the designer quoted us about $25K to start with, but we had a lot of “scope creep” as we went along.
Perfectly very nice cabinetry as originally spec’d became top of the line (my pushing, my fault), just fine granite went from $55/ft to $110/ft (again my fault - I just couldn’t stop looking at the nicer and nicer stuff).
I just did a quick dollar/year calc, and our 35 would be 50 today, and that is just general inflation and doesn’t include the fact that building materials have outpaced general inflation.
It’s just hard to get my mind out of the past - I still think new cars should cost $20K… LoL, me!
My new Volvo cost IIRC $3500. In 1972. 
Wait - do you still have it???
