Does this quote sound ok for kitchen update?

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Hi everyone,

We moved into this house almost a year ago, and are wanting to update the kitchen and adjoining utility room. The layout is fine (can't be improved and we couldn't fit an island in if we tried, it's a big kitchen, just not massive or a kitchen/diner), the cupboards are fine except for 4 doors which don't match the rest.

I have been quoted £2000 to provide 4 matching doors and to paint the units white, and £5000 for a quartz worktop (current one feels plasticky), undermounted sink and taps x 2, removing old tiles, replastering, new cooker hood as the current one is dodgy looking.

If we got a new kitchen completely, we've been quoted £25k. 1. I don't want to/ can't justify/afford spending 25k and 2. The units are fine, just that the finish isn't to my taste. I'd like a new floor as the tiles won't match white cabinets and the grouting is coming out but that''ll be another £1k I reckon and £7k for an update hurts a bit less than £8k...

Anyway, how does this sound to you? Not many places were interested in anything less than fully replacing the kitchen.

For the cupboard doors have you looked online? if you source them then find a recommended painter then that's a lot less money.

Then the worktop, there are many companies with good reviews which will supply and fit, how many metres as 5k sounds high?

If you break down what you want, you could save a lot.

I got an entire new kitchen for under £10'000, Included absolutely everything, old kitchen ripped out, all plastering, electrics, appliances, flooring, lighting, rubbish removal.
That all seems massively expensive.

I can't say for the worktop and other work, as it's a while since I redid a kitchen, but the painting quote sounds very high. I had my kitchen resprayed two years ago, and it was about a third of that. It's a big kitchen too - 25+ cabinets and a very large island. I used a company based in Halifax, but they travel nationwide, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them. They did a fabulous job (using F&B paint), did the inside and outside of all the doors and cabinets, and two years later it's still immaculate. If you didn't know what it was like before, you'd never know it was a refurb.

I couldn't find matching doors online. Ours a shaker style and the measurements of the edging were different, and the size of the doors was too. Just taking the top results off Google wasn't very fruitful so if anyone has any more specific recommendations please say.

I'm not sure of the number of metres off the top of my head but the worktop is quartz and accounts for almost £4k of the quote.

And @abbey44 please do give me the details of that company, the painting (although it did include the new doors which are expensive IMO) was actually the cheaper of several quotes.

Maybe have a look at kitchenandbedroomdoors.co.uk

Thanks

The firm I used were called OneStop Refinishers and they're based in Halifax. If you google them, you'll find their Facebook page and they have a lot of before and after photographs. All you do is email photographs of your kitchen to them and they'll email back with a quote. They may well be able to replace your missing doors as part of it if you ask. I was amazed at how little it was (relatively speaking), and I can't tell you how pleased I was with the result - I wish I'd known about them years ago Here's a couple of photos showing my own before & after...

Just thinking about the worktops...there's a company local to us (north-east) called something like Granite Transformations, which makes a sort of 'cover' for kitchen worktops in granite/resin. My aunt in London had something similar in her kitchen, so I imagine there are similar companies all over. The end result looks like a brand new solid worktop, but at a fraction of the price of a complete new one. If your worktops are solid and it's just the material that you want to change, maybe something like this might work....?

Thank you very much, I'll email them

Worktop does seem expensive. Of course depends on how many meters but I have a large kitchen and in SE and paid under 4k. I shopped around and could have got 2.5k but they didn't have style I liked.
I had worktop and upstands.