To ask how much your kitchen cost?

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I know it's a bit 'how long is a piece of string' type question but if anyone has any tips I'd be grateful.

Looking for a traditional, country kitchen style, cream cupboards, wood (or wooden style) work surfaces etc (you know what I mean I'm sure).

Wondering if anyone has similar and could give me an idea of how much they paid and where from.

Kitchen is mid-sized.

Thanks!

C

To add: the £7500 including replastering all of the walls and installing a new electric ring main in the kitchen as well as fitting everything and doing the tiling.

It seems to me that if you want an uber-modern kitchen you can get away with spending less.

My mum and dads was the best part of £80k. Mine was £5k. It really depends what you want/need etc.

Ours is going to be around 48k when we have finished. It all depends on what you want as others have said.

Our current kitchen came with our new build and isn't fab.

However we put in a new kitchen in our old flat. It was my 'dream' kitchen (years of scrapbook ing/cutting stuff out of magazines... Yes I'm a saddo!) (actually a lot like what you describe - cream cupboards, wood work tops, stainless steel hood and fancy curvy tap). We designed it ourselves at home then the chap at IKEA put it right for us/finished it off. He showed us various options which affected the total price.

We paid £1500 for the kitchen (0% finance) and £1500 for the installation (firm sourced/arranged by IKEA but a separate local firm). So £3k total. I could not have been more pleased with the quality and amount of storage etc. installation ws quick and painless. It was a pretty big kitchen too so I think that price is good.

The one thing I'd have possibly done differently is the worktop. Wood looks and feels amazing but is high maintenance. If/when I do it again I'll go for black granite work tops with the cream cupboards (and maybe a hardwood top on the island - where it's not so high traffic and not near the sink - where wood can go mouldy and minging).

Not the sexiest AIBU is it but I love a good kitchen chat!

Ooh yes and in my dream-kitchen-of-the-future I want a ffffing massive oven and some brass pans....

I spent 25k on ours, including appliances and a bit of building work.
It is a handmade all wood bespoke and was worth every penny- I think the units alone were 18k, but they still look new 10 years later. From Woodworks of Lewes, who were brilliant. I still feel happy looking at it!

£2.5k for white shaker style cabinets from wickes. Includes 11 cupboards, breakfast bar island, new sink, Taps, tiles, vinyl, stainless steel splash back and cooker hood. Bought last month. Saved a fortune by getting my retired dad to do all the electrics, plumbing and carpentry though.

Ours was about £2k all in, because a friend of the family is a carpenter/joiner and did it on the cheap for us. He bought the units from B&Q, had some spare worktops from another job down his workshop that he threw in free, and made us a custom shelf/wall hanger thing from some odds and ends. We then painted it ourselves, kept the original tiling, and then bought laminate to do the floor, which my dad put in. The laminate was oak-effect from Wickes. We were, and are, on a really tight budget so it was vital we kept the whole lot well under 2k. Some of the quotes we got from other places/people to put a new kitchen in were ridiculous and shocked me! One place wanted nearly £8k (for Howdens units) and even Tesco kitchens wanted £5k. So much money, imo we now have a gorgeous modern kitchen with lovely worktops so I am really glad we didn't go for anything more lavish!

Around 4.5k for units, appliances, lighting and bamboo floor, but not fitting. It was a new extension, so the fitting was part of the building cost.

Another saying you can spend as much as you want. Kitchen in our old place was at least £20k several yrs ago but recently on another property we sorted it for around £6k for large kitchen and utility room (Howdens & Boots Kitchen Appliances). The whole thing may have been more than that as it was part of doing up a house that was completely gutted but in terms of the "normal" scope of work required I'd say that was the amount we spent. Looking to do another kitchen in the next 12 months and definitely don't want to spend more than £5k (inc some sort of composite worktop).

Thought I'd posted images, but it seems not.

Another one saying be careful with wood. We had walnut in kitchen I mentioned above - 8 yrs in and it looked ok but definitely not like new and that was with regular treatment with oil.

In our currently place , wood again and it is awful around the sink. It was mouldy for a while (well, fungus was growing) but it's beyond that now. It's actually turning to soil and a seed of some kind must have lodged in it at some point as a stalk keeps growing up. Am expecting the tap to collapse any day, it's getting increasingly wobbly! No point in changing now as have submitted planning application for basement conversion/extension so it's basically a race again time - will it collapse before the work starts?

Mines 10 years old cost 11k fitted. Very fiddly odd shaped connecting rooms so took ages to fit. Had lovely wooden tops in main bit and matching pretend wood tops in the utility bit (designer recommended as these take most wear). I wanted an ironing board in a drawer and he persuaded me not to loose a drawer and I wish I had ignored him. Irritates me each time I drag ironing board out!

I love kitchen property porn.

We are just redoing ours and have spend way more time than I should on Pinterest trying to get ideas.

We spent about £4 k in total. That included everything, units, work surfaces all the trims/sides panels, tiles, appliances, (fridge, cooker and cooker hood) door and drawer handles, plus decorating materials and a farmhouse kitchen table.
We have a large kitchen but only needed 7 units in total due to wall space and fitting the appliances in.

Was quoted £7k + just for the (same style and colour) units from both Tesco and Wickes. But that didn't include everything else. I measured planned and ordered the whole lot from Diy Kitchens myself.
DH and his mate fitted, and tiled it another mate fitted the cooker and another one re-plumbed our existing sink. I did all the decorating

I was a bit dubious about ordering without seeing it first (they do have a showroom and send door samples etc) but the quality is much better than I could have hoped for and definitely a higher quality than the previous kitchen that had been built in along with the house (new build when we moved in) The units came ready assembled
The colour and style were spot on. I wouldn't hesitate to do it all from scratch again ourselves.

Friend had wooden work tops. She's gone for quartz in her new one. That cost £20k.

The price terrifies me. I've had my b and q white laminate one for fifteen years. It still looks good and I look after it.

About 5k 12 years ago for a 2m x 3m terrace-house kitchen and attached utility including oven & a freestanding fridge/freezer. Freestanding units were from Habitat. I am massively envious of those who have +25k to spend on a kitchen (and the space you must have!).

About 3k 2 years ago. Small kitchen, we got new doors but kept original carcasses, new work top, the joiner made us a brilliant floor to ceiling cupboard to match in an alcove. We got new wall tiles but kept the floor tiles. Got new sink, tap, filter unit and cooker and built in fridge. There were also new power points and washing machine to move - so plumber and electrician to pay. We got wood laminate top and white gloss doors from howdens, mixer tap from wickes, appliances from
Appliances online, but splashed out on fired earth tiles. it looks ok now but it's not the bees knees.

Dandelion, that diy place looks great and not too far from me. Am planning on paying a visit!

I spent 30k on a handmade wooden one in our last flat, and about to spend £50k on a new white gloss. modern one in our new house. That's including the units, appliances, tiles, work surfaces and fitting.

£20k start of this year . Medium sized kitchen which is knocked through to dining room (was already knocked through but meant dining room needed new flooring and redecorating). Cost included custom design cream shaker units, good quality wood effect laminate worktop and upstands (not as naff as it sounds I promise) Franke sink and taps, integrated microwave & fitting by a local kitchen company. Then plumbing, electrics, new appliances, floor tiled, new skirting, all walls and woodwork painted, 1 window replacement, blinds, wood burning stove bought and fitting into existing fireplace.

We weren't planning on having it done this year but we found a plumbing fault last year which meant the floor needed ripping up. . . and one thing led to another!

Oh and wood effect laminate was because we had our heart set on walnut worktops but every single person we spoke to who had wooden worktops told us not to get them.
We dismissed kitchen company's recommendation of laminate as we thought it was naff. We considered quartz but couldn't agree on one. Kitchen company showed us kitchen with laminate and won us over. It looks like wood. It has a matt finish and woodgrain texture to it. Most people have just assumed it's real wood. But the bonus for us was that it's harder wearing and we don't have to worry about fungus in damp areas e.g. near the sink, or having to sand and treat it every 3/4 months

Spent about £600 on flatpack units and worktop about 20years ago, fitted them myself.

About ten years ago I recovered the unit doors with leopard print sticky back plastic and resprayed the handles black, cost of about £40, but I treated myself to good flooring from harveymaria which was another £300.

Its all lasted really well am just thinking about respraying the handles and getting new worktop.

My mind boggles at the cost of some of these kitchens,you could buy a house with 60k

Independent fitter, solid wood units, all appliances (cooker/dishwasher/sink/extractor) laminate surface.
2 double base units, 2 full height larder units 5 wall cupboards 1 single base and 1x 4draw base unit, came to £4.2k all included.
Tiling came in at £150