How much did your kitchen cost?

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We would absolutely love to change our kitchen. It's very dated and doesn't really serve us very well in terms of layout. We would ideally like to knock through our dining room wall to make it open plan. Ideally our utility would need updated too as part of me feels if we're going to do it, I want it done the way I want it and get it done right iykwim. How much did your kitchen cost as a ball park figure? And are there anything's you would change/ add or do differently if you were to do it again? Thanks in advance

Fwiw it is dire because it is old rather than the design

Had almost exactly what you describe done last year and it was about £35k including updating utility room and new boiler. Units were Howdens. Quartz worktop. Amtico flooring. Oven, hob, fridge freezer and dishwasher. Tumble dryer and under counter freezer in utility (kept old washing machine as only a year old). Includes knocking out a extra window and replacement of patio door in the newly opened up dining area. Prices have shot up compared to the original quotes I'd got 18 months prior to the work starting. We're having to decorate ourselves as a result 😬

Ours was around 20k, 18 months ago.
Thats a pretty small kitchen diner though. Ceramic worktop, built in breakfast pantry, Villeroy boch and Bosch taps/ appliances. Oak floor and interior cabinets.

£40k including knocking through a load bearing wall. Kitchen and utility room, both Howdens, oak flooring, downstairs loo.

However that also includes having the Rayburn cooker converted to electric and the (new) kitchen units sprayed in a Little Green paint colour. I also spent £550 on a tap, which I enjoy using every day.

Its v hard to generalise. We moved kitchen to a different room, but plumbing was v straightforward so relatively affordable (£350); wiring for the cooker, additional sockets, lighting etc wouldve been needed anyway but cost about £2k (!!!) - but that included a new consuner unit and maling other bits safe.

If you just wabt a very rough number for budgeting, then allow £90 per square metre for flooring (all in), £6k for quartz worktops & fairky standard splashback, £100 per cupboard unit. and £3k for appliances. You can spend less, you can write a blank cheque and spend indefinite amounts more. But IME thats about the current figure for a basic but ok type of kitchen.

Most kitchens have vaguely sinilar number of units regardless of size (honestly, its true: an average kitchen thats 3 times the square footage wont have 3 times the number of units).
Appliances will cost the same in a big kitchen as in a tiny one - a dishwasher sink tap etc wont be cheaper coz theyre going in a small room.
Lighting, plastering, etc... again the cost increases a bit with size, but not in line with it.
But flooring - ouch!!!

Around £7k for kitchen and utility...

£4k on units/laminate worktop from DIY kitchens, then we had plumbers/electricians and joiner to fit worktop...we fitted the units ourselves.

This doesn't include floor as we replaced all downstairs at the same time with LVT, that cost £3k for everywhere, so probably less than £1k for kitchen floor.

Could not recommend DIY kitchens more, they were fab, they only have 2 showroom near Leeds, it's was totally worth the drive there.

Just finished - kitchen cost was £21k.

this included quartz worktops, appliances, boiling water tap and painted wood doors.

it was out in to a newly extended room and the electrics, plumbing and flooring were costed separately as part of the build
cost.

its a medium sized kitchen - bank of five larder size cupboards where the tow built on ovens are - then about 6 cupboards, plus four wall cupboards and a large island with a wine fridge:

We did this about 6 years ago - cost about £50k. Building costs about £25k, kitchen £10k, appliances £5k, worktops £5k snd fitting £5k

35k a couple of years ago. Smallish kitchen, 12ft x 12ft. Included a beam being put in as we moved a door.

Ours is about 5m x 4m as part of a larger room and has cost just under £12k including quartz worktops and all new appliances.

Ours is approximately 7m x 5m (narrowing to 3.5m) and cost around £20k five years ago.

We have one and a bit long walls of cabinets from Handmade Kitchens of Christchurch, an 1.5m wide x 2m high vintage larder (an ebay find for £375, as was the double belfast sink £120), Bertazzoni range (£3500 reduced to £1800, also ebay), an ex-display Dovre Vintage 50 wood burner (£3500 inc fitting), iroko worktops from Worktop Express and an articulated tap (£900) that I love. Apart from the range, the only appliance we needed to buy was an integrated dishwasher.

Ours was originally two reception rooms with a load-bearing wall between and we also removed one chimney breast. So, two steels and structural engineer's calculations etc....but we did all the building work including replastering ourselves (except rewiring and fitting the wood burner) which saved loads. Kept the original flooring and didn't use any tiles as our splash backs are wallpaper behind tempered glass. DH built the island (incorporating a mix of HMKOC cabinets, shelving and microcement top).

I had a Howden kitchen put in in 2021, no structural works but also included new boilers, radiators throughout home and new internal doors and door frames on all doors it came to £15k (£8k just for the kitchen cupboards, appliances, floor). I gave my fitter a max budget that I could not go over, scoped out what I wanted and he designed it.

My parents had same size kitchen put in by the same fitter and saved money as my dad removed all of the old kitchen and tiles first which saved at least a days labour and they had a rounded edge worktop instead of a square one which saved loads and I can't really tell the difference.

Posted too soon, my parents also bought their appliances separately from AO in the January sale and got some brilliant deals instead of getting them from Howden.