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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3224139, member: 1414"]
Damn man.  That sounds awful.  I did a big kitchen renovation a few years back.  Beyond that really, as we moved a laundry room upstairs, reconfigured the master bedroom including building a walk-in closet (to fit the new upstairs laundry) and then moved the bathroom where the laundry room was to expand the kitchen.  Plus new hardwood, cabinets, counters, all that stuff.

I won't say it was easy, because living with no kitchen sucks.  But it went smoothly.  Two takeaways that don't seem to fit for you.  (a) my wife was a project manager before becoming a "homemaker", which means she's still a kick-ass project manager and (b) we chose our general contractor carefully.  He is a home-builder and let us handle several key aspects and remaining attentive to his subs.   So we knew exactly what we wanted, they merely advised what was feasible or particularly costly, and we adjusted to that.  Cabinet guy was fantastic, and we quickly learned that his custom cabinets were half what "semi-custom" big box store cabinets cost.  We've hired him directly two times since then.

It can be done without impending divorce or financial ruination.
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