Grapes to Glass for sure for supplies.
And you're never going to get good, fresh and great tasting beer from a kit. Wort oxidizes and breaks down, the color changes with age, and its definitely not as good.
Alot of people with space and equipment restrictions get into grain brewing with partial mashes, where you have a portion of the wort from either DME or kit, and a small portion of steeped grains. People do use just DME for brewing, but again thats not much better than a kit, you're just rehydrating dehydrated malt.
You can also just brew small batch all grain, like 2.5 gallons which is easy on a stovetop. All grain recipes are scalable so you can do the math easy. You can further simplify by doing full volume BIAB mashes at those volumes, which means no sparging and complication. Just mash, drain, boil. One pot. Thats a great way of getting into it, not spending a ton of cash, and being able to experiment with recipe modifications and process. Once you get good and comfy, you can move up to things like I have which is basically a pilot brew house.
Or, if you really want to, I can't recommend the Robobrew enough. 115v, transfer and recirc pump, heated, PID controlled. All in one system that you can mash, sparge, boil, and transfer out of. It costs $500 and its worth every penny, it is a much much cheaper and cleaner version of the Grainfather. Its a system designed to just make brewing easier, less cleanup, and accessible. You can also get this at Grapes to Glass.
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