Revive kitchen vs. New, what’s your opinion?

[Lskz]

Hi everyone,
Just looking for advice.
We have old(10ish yo) kitchen In our newly bought house. It doesn’t look awful but could do with some work( wisely use cupboards with smart solutions like “easy” retract shelves, corner carousel etc) and refreshing doors& the worktop. Basically leave the carcass, oven and hob, and most of the cupboards as they are and add to a couple of them those smart solutions. I am bit concerned that in the end it will cost roughly the same as new one,please correct me if I am wrong. Would you change all these I mentioned or just stretch your budget and buy new one? Maybe any of you revived your kitchen and saved some money or regretted... it is 16unit kitchen, roughly new ones will cost 12k as min with installation If you know any suppliers/stores please share contacts. Thank you!!!

We got a ‘revive’ quote and the new quote was in a similar ballpark. Mainly due to wanting a new worktop in either scenario. Our revive quote would have meant 1 colour cupboards and different colour doors. I am so pleased we didn’t go revive.

Thank you. That’s what I am afraid of . Where you’ve got your quote, if you don’t mind asking?

I got various new kitchen quotes - Benchmarx, Magnet, Wreb, an independent. The makeover company was local and all done face to face so can’t remember and have no emails to remind me! Maybe something like Kitchen Smart?

We also thought we would want all the smart solutions but they were mega expensive and actually, with good design, you shouldn’t need many or any. I was adamant we were getting a corner carousel but we didn’t end up with one in any new or revive scenario.

Thank you, we have a couple of local ones. Should check them then.

Hi, we revamped and refreshed ours. It is a trad kitchen in a trad house though. Had the solid oak units re painted, replaced floor and wall tiles and worktops and had walls painted. It's a large kitchen and utility room and came in at around 4k. Replacing the whole thing would've cost 3 times that at least. That said, we were happy with existing doors and layout.

Revamp it it’s amazing what you can do

Thank you Bluesheep8, did you go with a high street store or local one?

We painted the walls, upgraded the built in extractor for a more modern design, and swapped a spotlight fitting for a rise and fall pendant. It made a big difference but didn’t cost too much. We could have gone further and put in some different units (we think it looks lopsided) but we would have been spending a fair amount of money on a kitchen we don’t hate but equally don’t love. Annoyingly it is about 20 years old but doesn’t look it! More time to plan my ultimate kitchen...

Hi Lskz, we didn't use a retailer as such for any work.Worktops were from b and q, wall and floor tiles were from an independent supplier and we had the cupboards and walls done by a decorator. Worktops and tiling done by separate tradespeople. I'll be honest it was problematic trying to organise/schedule then all but I know from experience of a full replacement in a much smaller kitchen by a retailer in a previous house that it worked out much cheaper doing it this way in our case.

Just get quotes for both.

Is it a pricey wooden kitchen, or a high street type one?

Thank you MulberryPeony and Bluesheep8 for the details.
Loopytiles, it is high street type one.