How old is your kitchen?

[AvoidingDM]

Pure curiosity.
I was told by a kitchen fitter that the average life span of a kitchen is 7 years. .Truthfully i struggle to believe that is true given the cost and hassle replacing a kitchen is. I would have thought 15-20 would be closer to the mark.

So how old is your kitchen?
How old was the previous one (if you replaced an existing kitchen)?

House is 20 years old and moved in 17 years ago.
Original kitchen, although rejigged slightly about 15 years ago when we added a conservatory, but we just moved some of the existing units and added a new one plus a bit of extra worktop that we matched to the original. Floor tiles were replaced at that time and wall tiling done as previously hadn't been any.

It is showing it's age but is more than serviceable.
I'm likely to replace, or maybe just new worktop, sink (which is past its best) and drawer/door fronts in the nearish future as the flooring is a mess (tiles on suspended wooded flooring and probably 75% are cracked).

11. Still looks fine. Not bored of it. We have had to replace the oven, but bought and fitted it ourselves.

19yrs but had the doors sprayed by a mechanic/spray painter 6 yrs ago and has stood up well

Those are much closer to the ages / time span I was thinking. Although I'm surprized that there are still some 1970's kitchens around.
Kitchen man was clearly talking nonsense. Trying to make me think about replacing rather than shuffling mine around.

I certainly can't afford to rip out a 6 year old kitchen but I can afford and justify re-shuffling to rectify a duff design. Taking the view I'm going to keep it another 12+ years. Which it the time i'll have kids in the house.

One house it's 6 years. The other it's pushing 28. I mean, the 28 year old kitchen could probably do with being updated but it doesn't look terrible, it was good quality and well looked after. And it's grey so it has come back into fashion 😁

We had a new kitchen about 5 years ago. Kitchens are so expensive - there's no way we could afford to have a new kitchen every 7 years and the one we have still feels new to me so we wouldn't want to.

Probably about 12 years....been in the house for 9, and it was around 3 years old when I bought it.
The cupboards are fine, but I changed the worktop, tiles, and sink a couple of years ago which has given it a new lease of life.
I’ll probably leave it for another few years and might then get a whole new one - but it’ll be quite an undertaking - it’s a big room and I’d like to completely redesign it, so not something that’ll be happening on a whim!

No way do most people replace kitchens every 7 years! I reckon 15-20 years is more typical.

Mine is 8 years old - I need to replace the induction hob as the glass is badly chipped - but I’m reluctant as it will just get chipped again. Other than that - it still looks contemporary and was well thought out. I think people often replace a cheap poorly designed kitchen when they move house.

A couple of years old. The one we took out was 19 years old and falling apart. Next door still have the original 21 year old kitchen.

Mine is 27. It was a mid to high end kitchen when installed. We are just thinking about replacing it. The units are still in reasonable shape but it's looking generally a bit shabby and dated - and we'd quite like to change the layout.

15 year old Magnet kitchen here. Still looks pretty good, nothing broken or damaged, stained or chipped. It is a cream shaker look with wood effect tops, so pretty timeless. Haven't yet replaced cooker, although it has been fixed twice, new thermostat and new fan, now need new oven door. Dishwasher also same one, although that too has been fixed twice.

Bathrooms on the other hand are something like 20 years old.... hate, hate, hate them. Keep fixing things, like taps and showers, but it is so 1990's, old, and ugly. Thank god the suite was white, but other than that everything is really dated, white wooden fitted cupboards, spa bath, and peach tiles, bleuch. Sooooo expensive to get bathrooms done though, we just can't afford what we would like it to be. We may just have to go basic and change like for like .

My parents is from the mid 70s, same hob and ovens, same units, same floor, they have replaced the worktop but other than that it's still all fine and doesn't look outrageously dated. Must have been expensive at the time to have lasted so well.

We bought this house in march this year. It was built in 1970s and previous owner had been here since then. We think it was the original kitchen although there had been a new oven recently put in. We've kept the units but we painted and changed the flooring, worktops, doors and drawer fronts, tiles, sink and hob/splashback. Does that still count as the same kitchen? 😂 we did it all for just over £1000 and it looks exactly like the much more expensive kitchen we wanted.

We were pretty hard up when we moved into our cottage over 20 years ago. We inherited brown units, but they were obviously bespoke, carpenter made ones. So, they've had several incarnations since - the first time we painted them duck egg blue and installed terracotta tiles on the floor. Replaced worktops. At present we still have the same units, painted soft white, but took out all the units on one wall so we could have a dresser and farmhouse table. Added a new piece of worktop and used the spare to make a shelf about the table. Also took some of the cupboard doors off, to have that open look. Because our house has loads of exposed stone and brick and generally have that type of shabby look, they fit in!!! Also we're both very heavy handed people, so they work for us. The one thing I would love however is to replace the worktops with granite, so that is on my wish list.

Mine is 7 years old. It still looks as good as the day it went in and there are no problems with it. It's solid wood, not chipboard.

Zebra I'd say that counts as the same kitchen. Must have been really good quality at the time to have lasted so well.

I must admit i have been surprised by the number of 2nd hand kitchens on Gumtree and Ebay that I've came across in my hunt to find matching bits for my kitchen.

Given the age of some of the kitchens people have it does make it worthwhile to spend tha grand or so juggling ours around and getting the layout that we want. Rather than spending years waiting for it to fall to bits.

I think Zebra wins this thread! Top “Zero Waste” points.

Mine is about 15 years old. It replaced one falling off the walls with a cracked, leaking sink. I'm thinking of having a new one installed but really need to change to layout and orientation to get the best use out of the room. It will be expensive.

16 years old. We put it in when we moved in. It’s a solid beech freestanding one from habitat. It’s still in hood nick but is a bit dirty looking now. I could paint it to update it but I can’t be bothered quite frankly. One door has a broken hinge which I keep forgetting about til I open the cupboard and feel momentarily cross about it then forget to fix it again

Mine was here when I moved in. I believe it's around 20 years old now. It was clearly a good quality one as it's still solid and sturdy. I took off all the handles last year and spray painted them as they looked a bit tired, and that worked well. I am planning to have the work tops, sink and tiles replaced over the next few months as they are the things that are showing signs of age. But I see no need to go to the expense of ripping out the entire kitchen.