Yesterday’s Parlor Kitchen post got us thinking about doing kitchens on the cheap. Based on our own rather limited experience, the one word of advice we’d throw out there for a more budget-consious reno would be to splurge a little where it’s really going to count. For example, in our kitchen, which hopefully will be temporary (we’re hoping to move it from the rear of the second floor to the parlor when our ship comes in), we used Ikea cabinets but salvaged some incredible old white marble that we spent about $2,000 having custom cut and finished. In our opinion, it really pulls the kitchen together and dresses up the cabinets, which cost a total of a few hundred bucks from Ikea (photo on the jump). To be fair, we also didn’t really cut corners on the appliances either, reasoning rationalizing that we could keep those if/when we moved the kitchen. Other thoughts about where to drop a few extra bucks in an otherwise penny-pinching reno?