New Kitchen costs

[Riverlee]

I appreciate all kitchens are different sizes, and you can purchase kitchens from IKEA or Wickes to bespoke designs.

However, could people give me a ballpark figure on how much a medium size kitchen would cost. The tiles on the floor in ours are beginning to chip (kitchen = 15 years plus) so I think we may have to start thinking about replacing it.

Ours was just over £10k from Wren. We then paid to have it fitted separately as Wren charge a fortune apparently!

Mum had a quote from wickes for her tiny kitchen (retirement apartment) - literally a squeeze for two people to be in there at once, and it was £6000. Assuming you pick a standard kitchen (eg. not marble worktops) I think labour is the biggest cost.

Our quotes for a medium kitchen (16 units + 4 appliances) have ranged from 6k - 11k + installation.

This kitchen and utility room has has just cost us about 20k from howdens including the flooring and quartz worktops. We used a local builder to fit it which was £2500

DIY kitchens have an online planner. You can put the size of your kitchen in and then play around with sizes and options for cupboards.
For example drawers are generally more expensive than cupboards but are twice as useful as you can store and easily access items all the way to the back.
I wanted, but didn't get, a 'le mans' style pull out shelves for my one corner cupboard, but it added well over £200 to the cost of my kitchen. I wanted my tall cupboards to be pull out units but they too are expensive so I have settled for one like that and the other has shelves with baskets on that I can lift out - so again can use the full depth. The cupboard in question is only 300 mm ide so the baskets are not too heavy. I declined end panels and cornices etc as well as the unit are the same colour as the doors so I didn't need them in most place, which saved a bit (you have to be careful when ordering as they add them automatically and you have to take them off.

Once you have a 'plan' of sorts you can talk to the staff who, although they don't design as such, usually have helpful suggestions.

My fitter wanted me to buy from Howden's but afterwards said the DIY kitchen was much easier to fit.

planner.diy-kitchens.com/

@Monkeybutt1

...and worth every penny-it's beautiful.

£20k from Wren including top of the range appliances, quartz tops, incinkerator, electrician (£2k), plumber and fitter.

We got our last kitchen from IKEA.
I designed it online, DH and a builder installed it. It was full of drawers, pull outs and clever bits and bobs (I miss it!)
The actual cost of the medium sized kitchen was around £3.5k, 8 years ago, including dishwasher and extractor hood. Floor tiles were about £600 (DH tiled the floor). It took DH and the builder about 2 days to do the units, plus another 4 days to do the floor tiles as DH was a beginner.

I've recently looked on IKEA as we have moved and now have a slightly larger kitchen. It looks like around £4-5k Inc a worktop, although I think we may get a worktop separately.

6 years ago = £18K but that included stripping a galley kitchen back to the bare floorboards, new walls and ceilings, new electrics. We also got higher cupboards to make the most of the small space, only drawers, underfloor heating and quartz worktops.

The kitchen was around £10K, the rest was material and labour.

I love cooking so I wanted something which lasts and has a clever design. It still looks absolutely new.

Why do you have to replace your whole kitchen because some floor tiles are chipped?

We got ours from Ikea this year. No appliances apart from a cooker hood. Small kitchen and half a utility room. Spent a bit more on drawers rather than cupboards, lights, inner drawers etc but went for cheaper options for worktops and doors. Laminate worktop, composite sinks and taps with spray. Three sinks when we had just one before, so extra plumbing. A lot of new sockets.

Kitchen was about £4000 and installation about the same. Very happy with units and installation.

Medium about 8.grand.
Not include oven etc, plane laminated work top

My kitchen cost £7.5 grand. That included a dishwasher, sink, and all ironmongery (is that what you call them? Handles and shit). The floor was part of the whole ground floor so different cost. Can't remember if that included the range cooker and hood. I think perhaps not. Kitchen, sink, and dishwasher all from DIY Kitchens, units in special order farrow and ball colour. Ironmongery from local place. I already had the fridge freezer. I only have one wall cupboard (which I'm still furious about. It holds the boiler, I didn't want the goddam boiler in there anyway) everything else is low level pull out drawers but it is quite large.

In my head I seem to think the quartz worktop (of which there is a fair old amount) cost £1500. It did not, and I have to catch myself telling everyone who sees it that it cost that amount... In reality it was double but it is SO worth it and I love it very much. I have a feeling I imagine it cost £1500 as that's what I told my penny pinching, cheapo husband it cost.

Thank you

We had ours done at the start of this year - bought it through Benchmarx (the trade-only arm of Wickes) and got our builder (who was doing other work in the house) to fit it. For the supply and fit of the kitchen, including worktop, sink, taps and under-cupboard lighting it was just over £6500 as they price-matched Wickes during a sale. I bought appliances separately and those came to around £2000 for cooker, hood, dishwasher and washing machine.

I paid £10k for a large solid oak kitchen plus utility but dad installed it for free. My builders wanted £45! I have a £6k quote for my new house also oak, self install

Thank you for all your replies and photographs.

Avoid wickes. We got a quote of nearly £30k for our small terraced house kitchen. No structural work etc. They are expensive and the design process is crap.

diy kitchens are meant to be better and you have control rather than trying to get the totally untrained wickes sales assistant to do the design for you 🙄

We used Howdens, it was easy process, good designer, we got appliances from them too, worktop separately. 5 x 3 m kitchen. £27k.

In our last home, we paid £3.5K for a B&Q kitchen. This included around 6 cupboards, a wood worktop, oven and fitted dishwasher. We paid £850 for a private fitter. This was in 2018 so not that long ago. I'm amazed at the prices of these kitchens as this one was lovely.

Just had a Wren kitchen for £9000, would have cost us another £5000-6000 for fitting and that's a dry fit. We fitted ourselves and called in favours from friends who do tiles, electrics, plumbing etc... think it would have been nearly £20,000 if we didn't have that help!

Wickes, £18000 with all new appliances, boiling tap, granite worktop and island.

tiles were £160 and flooring under £400. Installed this year.

I did not have the mental capacity to diy it or find cheaper kitchen fitters and paid a premium. 100% worth it

How longs a piece of string? You can make your kitchen cheaper by having just basic larger units and no special units that have mechanism in them. DIY have a guide surprisingly, on how to keep your kitchen costs down here.

We are currently designing and costing new kitchen. 16 cabinets plus an island, granite worktops, keeping American FF, 2 new AEG ovens, down draft halogen hob on island, granite sink. Looking to be Approx £18k including labour but not decor.