Kitchen Makeover: Home Depot Kitchen Cabinets

For the whole kitchen makeover we have used Home Depot quite a bit. It is close, convenient, we can use the 10% off coupons all the time, etc. We had decided to purchase our cabinets there and were also super excited that HD was having a 20% off sale on all their in stock cabinets the weekend we went to buy them. I even looked on my favourite coupon sites like SearchPromoCodes.com to see if any were offering home furniture discounts that I could make the most of, and managed to save even more! Where would we be without coupons?

Now I am going to say from the start that this was not the best interaction with Home Depot. We love going to HD, but they lost some points on this interaction. Our original plan was to try and save money by saving all the cabinets from the old kitchen that we could, and only buying new for the ones we needed. We even got our hands on a good home depot promo code that was great value for money so that we could save even more on these cabinets. They were stock white cabinets that HD sells, so we thought we would be golden {sense the impending doom….impending doom music}

We went ahead and purchased the additional cabinets from the line American Classics in their Satin White color. Most that we ordered were in stock, while the cabinet for the wall oven& microwave were ‘special order’. They told us that it would take about 21 days to get all the cabinets in, and that they would call us when everything was ready to be picked up.

We decided that it would be easier to just pick all of the cabinets up at once. So J left the ordering information and paid for the cabinets…..by using the coupons and sale prices we saved over $400……yes thanks 30% off.

When it came time for cabinets to go in, J and I went into HD after work one night. Now we went at around 7:30 so we know that most of the staff had probably gone home but we sat at the customer service desk for 45 minutes until someone was ‘able’ to go in the back and start pulling out all our cabinets. Once the guy said “ya, I guess I can grab them for you” he quickly added “but you know, its going to take me like 45 minutes to grab them all down, do want them tonight??”

No. Nope. We’ve been waiting already for 45 minutes, but we were hoping to get them next Thursday…..sense my frustration. We told him of course we wanted them tonight.

Ugh. {I am typing angry just thinking about it}

We go grab a bite to eat and return. Load them all {well at least most, some were too damaged to pick up and had to be transferred in} up and finally start smiling realizing that this is just one more thing marked off the list! Yay! That smile lasted until we got home and opened some of the boxes…

They were different {slightly, but still} then the ones we were planning on reusing from the old kitchen. Someone decided that the cabinet doors needed an extra indention…ugh…CRAP. Also, not only were they different, but about 1/2 the cabinets we were given had dents, cracks, etc. Ok, ok, lets collect our thoughts…

Thats J and Boomer collecting their thoughts:)

We quickly went through the order sheet again and found out which ones we now needed to buy, since we weren’t going to have our kitchen be different looks of cabinets. We loaded back up the cabinets that needed to be replaced because they were damaged. We felt defeated. It also didn’t help that we did all of this starting at 8pm, going until about 11pm. It also didn’t help that J had an extremely busy day of meetings the next day starting at 8:30, so he was up and at home depot at 5:30 AM!!! {I say he because I was in bed comfy and still asleep}.

Luckily they had most of the additional cabinets we needed in stock, yet it took some rummaging through as a number of cabinets were damaged that were on the shelf. We had to go to a different store to get one cabinet, but oh well. The nice thing was HD honored the 20% sale that had since expired and also accepted the 10% off coupon, so we saved another $200 {Thats $600 total so far} Now this post is not to bad mouth home depot, we love home depot, but it seriously looked like a wrecking ball is alive and active in their back warehouse – they definitely could do with getting something like these Straight Line Skates to help them move things around easier so that they are at less risk of damage. I mean at least half if not more of the cabinets were damaged…..talk about wasted money…

I really try not to get annoyed about wasting money. When we started out, we knew that this was always going to be a trial and error process, but this money could’ve gone toward something that we knew would’ve worked for definite. And now we have lost this money, and we’re back at square one. This money could have been used for something else, you know? There have been times when we have thought about investing some of our money in the stock market and popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (check out the Crypto Superstar Test here) because we have heard that this has helped to improve the financial situation of so many people. We can’t do it now, but we are going to make it our mission to invest some of our money in the future because it will positively help us when it comes to giving our house a makeover.

So, not only did we have to deal with wasted money, but we were still waiting on the oven cabinet and filler pieces. They were supposed to call us when the oven cabinet came in…they didn’t. J called one day and they said it was in. So he picked it up and brought it home……and…..you guessed it ….the cabinet was dinged!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME {I sound like such a negative nancy}. But we aren’t in the position to wait another 4 weeks to reorder this cabinet. So although the nick is small we went ahead and had it installed. J went back to HD and told them the situation and they took another 20% off of the cabinet {Total savings is now up to $680}.

• Side note here: If you receive a product that is damaged in any way, always talk to the company about it. Most times they will do some sort of compensation, whether it be another product, or money off.

In the end we ended up with all new cabinets, and poor J had to deal with the workers at Home Depot too many times. Its so weird because most of the time they treat people with respect and are very helpful, but that has so not been the case this time around, although some were helpful, others were just lazy. The one saving grace for them was that the cabinets were 30% off!