Recarpet? Remodel?

I mentioned in my previous post that we were looking for new carpet. Our carpet is original to our 13 year old house. I HATE it, H.A.T.E it! I have anxiety about it every time new people come over - silly, I know, but I'm sure some of you have had this feeling before about something, whatever it may be. Anyway, I've wanted new carpet since we moved in, but everytime we've had the money, something came up. So today we had a guy come, bring samples & give us a quote. After we heard everything he had to tell us, we told him we'd like to talk about it and we'd let him know in a couple of days. Welllll, Aaron & I have been batting around the idea of remodeling our kitchen right now instead of getting new carpet. Our thinking is this:

1. We need to paint the whole interior of the house & feel this should be done over old carpet rather than new
2. Our ugly 90's kitchen drives me crazy!
3. None of our appliances match or are even the same brand. Replacing them with matching would be helpful for resale - we aren't planning on moving until the kids are in late elementary, but we know we will have to eventually because of space.
4. The kitchen reno will have more impact than new carpet
5. We can get the carpet at the end of the year when Aaron gets his next bonus after we have had time to repaint the interior.

So our new plan is to redo our cabinets, replace the dishwasher, range & built-in microwave (to match our refrigerator), get new granite countertops, redo the backsplash and flooring and then replace the fixtures. We may get new lighting in the kitchen (breakfast room is fine), but we can live with what we have. Believe it or not, we can do all of this for less than it will cost to get new carpet. We have LOTS of square feet of carpet! Hopefully, we can get right on this and get it all done before Emme's birthday party on June 12th. Since we will do a lot of it ourselves, we I will have to keep ourselves Aaron in line. You've heard the saying "The cobbler's children have no shoes." Aaron used to build AMAZING custom homes and has successfully worked in construction for over 12 years, but tends to - we'll say - take his time on personal projects. He is such a perfectionist, which I love about him, but I often feel he over thinks some things & his attention to detail is too attentive at times. It ends up taking longer. Once they are finished, they look more fabulous than I had ever imagined, but it's sort of painful getting there. Hopefully, I remember to take "Before" pictures and lots of "In Progress" pictures along the way. Wish us luck!