Remodeling costs

Kitchen and bathroom remodel budgets, tier by tier. Every guide shows the low, typical and high price from published national data, what drives the price, and how your region changes it.

How pricing works in this category

Remodeling quotes fail to compare because the word 'remodel' covers three different projects. Our remodeling guides use the Cost vs. Value Report's standardised tier definitions โ€” minor refresh, major mid-range, major upscale โ€” priced from the same specification across US markets every year, and set them next to what homeowners actually spent in large samples of real projects, so you can see both the showroom number and the street number.

Each guide names its tier before it budgets it, breaks out the lines that dominate the total (cabinets in a kitchen; tile and glass in a bathroom), and states the resale context with its source attached and its limits stated: recoup percentages are appraisers' estimates for a standardised specification, not a promise about any individual home, and not financial advice.

Every figure in these guides is an estimate drawn from published data and checked against at least two sources โ€” see how we research, and the disclaimer for what these numbers can and cannot do.