To wTo ask how much you paid for your new kitchen?

[Carrotmama]

I have a Victorian terraced house with a kitchen approx 5m x 4m. It is currently terrible: hideous gas fire & surround, rotted wooden cupboards, bumpy ceiling, vile wallpaper.

Basically how much did you pay for your kitchen, from ripping out the old all the way to lovely and new? Or how much do you guesstimate would be reasonable for me to expect to spend?

Thank you in advance

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Mine is a little smaller than yours 3 m x 4 m maybe....... mine cost £11k inc new appliances.

Ah thanks, interesting. Whereabouts on the scale, from bargain to super posh brand/ company was it @19lottie82 ?

Can highly recommend benchmarx, they stock the same ranges as wickes, but much cheaper.

We recently got a kitchen from their top end range, we used our own fitter and with top end appliances bought separately came to about £7.5k. The kitchen is about 7x3m

I had 12 top range units, mid range dishwasher, Belfast sink, real wood worktops 6k. fitting not Included. This is a small kitchen and larder unit in dining room only. Starting to think it's a rip off.

8 ground cupboards, two wall cupboards, sink, taps, tiles, work surface and putting some cabling into the walls, £2.5k. B and q kitchen, person who installed it designed and sourced.

I spent about £40k but that involved some building work to improve the layout and buying/installing a new boiler as the old kitchen had an aga that I was getting rid of (I can hear the pearl clutching from here about getting rid of an aga but I bloody glad I did).

With kitchens, it's very much how long is a piece of string. For the size of kitchen you're talking about, it could be £100k if you go to Smallbone/Poggenpohl or less than £10k if you go for Howdens/Ikea basic.....

Ours is slightly smaller. We designed our own with DIY kitchens (units& worktop = £3140) We also ripped the old one out ourselves and fitted the new one too, but got a carpenter in to do the work top and cornicing (£330). Tiles were £178 from tile mountain and I tiled it myself with adhesive and tile equipment from b&q (£30). We had the gas hob disconnected and reconnected professionally (£60) but didn't buy new appliances. The sink, porcelain, was £158 and the tap £25 from Amazon. Did our own plumbing. Paint and curtains were around £100.

So around £4k with minimal labour and no appliances.

6x5 m kitchen + small utility room, from scratch as new extension. Reused the old cooker but everything else brand new. It’s an odd shape with lots of windows so we went with a bespoke kitchen company. Cost ended up just over £42k. Expensive but I love it!

Spent about 20k
Funded by borrowing I suppose,took out a big enough mortgage to cover it
I can live with a lot but I couldn't have lived with that kitchen!

Kitchen about the same size. 9 floor height cupboards, one whole wall cupboard, two wall units and a kitchen island with power. Moved electrics but not plumbing. Including new flooring and tiling behind and new windowsill. Some appliances - sink, double oven, job, and American style fridge freezer. All in and fitted £4.9k. Three years ago.

Ours is about the same size, price was just under 20k fully fitted, but that included all new appliances, granite work top inv very large peninsula, range cooker etc.

Ours is nearly exactly same size as yours (and similar era - Edwardian). Ours is currently being done for £17k fully fitted (reduced/haggled from nearer to £30k), including new dishwasher and tumble dryer. This includes base units down both sides of the room, wall units on one side, Belfast sink, quartz worktops, and a two-tier breakfast bar/island.

Howdens £3k for the kitchen and appliances. I'm waiting for the installation cost from my builder, I'm not expecting it to be more than £2k. So around £5k all in. I would recommend Howdens, very good quality and reasonable prices.

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@AtreidesFreeWoman Posted before finished! Was laughing at pearl clutching at aga removal! However, am in the market for a reconditioned aga...

@ChanklyBore That sounds amazing; what company was it that did it?

Fantastically useful advice here, thank you. Will be researching the middle to lower end priced ones tomorrow.

I'm at end of mat leave organising doing up the new house... Current action is supposed quick and easy redecoration of our bedroom, quoted £375 and 2 days to do. Well the paper stripping took 3 days as there were approx 9 layers including a layer of foil and a layer of bitumen, WTF! Finally stripped and brought loads of plaster with it so currently in the middle of replastering. Budget for that room more than doubled already.

You wouldn't have wanted mine :-)

Tbh I lived with it for 2 years and bloody hated the thing.

Everyone goes on about how good they are but of was a PITA.

Unless you have space for a separate hob and oven (that you can use in the summer without melting yourself by being in the kitchen) I really wouldn't bother.

It's a totally different style of cooking, so if you do get one I'd recommend you buy some aga specific cookbooks. Minimal cooking on the hot plates (as they lose heat) and everything in the ovens asap. Then pfaff around moving stuff between the ovens to get the right temperature.

People say everything tastes better when cooked in an aga and frankly I found that to be bollocks.

They look great I admit that, but cost a lot to run and you absolutely have to cook to an aga template. I found they rule you not the other way round.

Having ours done atm. Includes other building work to change shape of room, different doors etc.

In total we've spent a bit more than 30k.

Kitchen + utility from diy kitchens - wooden doors & fairly high spec was £5k. Appliances (Bosch but in sales etc) £2k, worktop (quartz) - lots of it - £3k. So including fitting the kitchen itself has cost around 11-12k. Things like different worktops, appliances etc could have brought cost down quite a bit but we will have this kitchen for a long time.

We had our kitchen replaced about 6 months ago. It's only small (approx. 6' x 12') and we had already done some structural changes a few months before - we had the back door bricked up and replaced with a window, and the dining room window made into French doors. This came under the cost of getting new windows so I don't count it in with the kitchen costs.
We paid for the kitchen:
£2800 for units (5 base and 4 high level)
£2650 for fitting including ripping out old kitchen, moving plumbing and gas pipes, rewiring, fitting spotlights in ceiling, replastering, etc etc.
about £1800 for appliances - integrated washing machine, sink, taps, built under cooker, large fridge freezer, built in hob.

We then paid £2400 to have the whole of downstairs re-floored with LVT flooring, so the kitchen was probably about 1/4 of this budget.
So around £8k in total? Excluding windows / structural work portion.

Local budget showroom for the kitchen. We designed it and just ordered the basic bits we wanted from them, and negotiated a discount for lots of things, like picking them up ourselves and by bulk ordering. Appliances came from another local place that sells things like dishwashers with a dent in the side which when built in you don’t see.....everything less than half RRP. We got a kitchen fitter associated with the showroom - one guy, paid on a daily rate for five days, he also did the floor, tiles and electrics - but ripped out the old one ourselves. Because he was on a day rate he didn’t much mind or care when we were in there asking him to change this or that or sort stuff. We got an ex-display sink by being cheeky in another showroom. We did have a problem with one aspect of it after fitting and were able to complain to the showroom and have the fitter come back and fix minor things afterward FOC.

We got a great kitchen basically by arguing and haggling and having people on a day rate.

Oh I forgot we also spent £600 on a glass splashback so possibly closer to £9k.

@AtreidesFreeWoman Everyone who's talked to me about agas agrees with you but DP does all the cooking in our house and partly this is about giving him his dream kitchen. When we met he was a lodger in a farmhouse that had an aga and he adored it.

In the kitchen space we've got now there's a fireplace/ range place type chimney to be knocked back and then a small aga can go in there. With a normal oven and hob somewhere else. Also that means we could do the rest of the kitchen and leave the aga til later when can afford (prob never!)