What do new kitchens cost these day?

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would i get something nice for £5k or am i looking £10k?..not big kitchen, about 13ft long by6-8 ft wide??
i need you to say £5 will be adequte?

yeah or even £5k, but a fiver will be good too!

My friend has just had a wonderful IKEA kitchen - about £2.5 k

I think a lot depends on if you can fit it yourself, and whether you need to get appliances/flooring/tiling etc as well

My brother just did his kitchen for £3500 and it's a decent size. Got units from B&Q and countertop from Wickes. It helps if you know an odd-job type person who can install all the different bits.

we had new kitchen fitted 10 months ago. Small space but included new cooker and hob and breakfast bar. Cost us £3.5K so reckon 5k be good. Shop around though.

we wont be able to do ANY of it ourselves and have yet to meet a decent trademan so will be prob best to go with company who supply to fit as well?
we have a howdens locally whom im told are very good?
We dont need appliances, but will need flooring and the like, although as the reason to buy new is spurred on by the fact we have just had a flood, the insurance company will probably pay for the floor and the unit thats crumbled?

Have heard ikea kitchens are fiddly??

We had our done the week before christmas, it cost about 7k with new double oven,fridge/freezer and solid wood worktops and breakfast bar.

were from Pedilla?

howdens- they are a trade company, our fitter has a trade account with them as we just chose what we wanted from their catolougue

I think it depends on how long you want it to last. Generally you get what you pay for.

£5k will probably get you a respectable IKEA kitchen, someone to fit it and some cheap flooring. If you hunt around you can find deals and discounts on-line for flooring. If you make sure you get a decent fitter then IKEA can look good. If the fitter's not particularly bothered then the whole thing can look cheap and tired pretty quickly.

If you're looking to redesign the kitchen (ie. move appliances around) then the extra electric, plumbing work will bump it up. You'll probably need to spend a minimum of £10k for a decent finish.

Have you thought about worktops and splashbacks?
Will your current appliances look shabby against the new shiny kitchen? Or are they all integrated so you can hide them behind doors?

Three years ago we spent about £8k on an Ikea kitchen, new appliances (most off eBay), granite worktop, glass splashback and bespoke doors. But our mate fitted it (who is now my DH's business partner) so we saved a lot of money that way. It was part of a new extension we were building so that doesn't include any of the wiring and plumbing.

My DH now runs a design, supply and fit company for bespoke kitchens. Most of his clients spend a minimum of £15k, that's for the cabinets, appliances, worktops and splashbacks, and fitting.

mine was £4.5k with another £1k for fitting and its lovely

that didn't include appliances/sink/taps as we had those or splashback as a year on am still deciding on one

I went to a small independent kitchen design place thinking I could never afford it but would steal borrow some ideas. told him my budget and we worked around it making sure I got everything I really wanted - came in at half of what B&Q. Magnet, MFI and Moben were quoting and there's would all have been a compromise on certain things

if you have a small local supplier near you its always worth a look

I went to MFI...and got a Harvey Jones rip off (theirs cost 25k) for just over £6k which includes all units, double oven,oak worktops and upstand, dishwasher, hob, extractor,huge double larder. Its solid wood doors too. Now is a good time of year, people have no money and he was literally throwing appliances into the cost! Will cost us a grand to fit.

thanks for that..we really dont need appliances as they were all bought new to move(been in under 2yr) and the ceramic sink was bought to use when we change kitchen, plumber is the problem were having so work WOULD need to be done there as well as units, fitting and tiling to walls

right so seems £1k to fit seems about right?and how long does it take?..would that just be fitting the kitchen or any other work ie: plumbing/electrics?

you could maybe lessen the cost by getting all the old units out first - we did that and knocked fitting down from £1k to £800

(sorry I forgot that the last time )

we took a couple of days to rip it all out and he took 2 days to put it in, not including flooring as big open planned room so was to be done later/ or tiling as mentioned - still not quite there yet lol

I went to MFI today to discuss buying a kitchen for our yet to be built kitchen extension.

We wandered around the kitchen displays. We then tried to hunt down a salesperson. Then we wondered if the store was indeed closed.

Eventually we found the salepeople hiding behind the bathroom displayed. I asked politely if one of them minded talking to us about kitchens. One of them grunted at me and told me I was actually standing by the fitted bedroom displays. He then asked one of his other colleagues if she'd mind talking to us.

I decided at this point that customers were clearly an inconvenience to them and told him (again politely) not to worry, we'd go and trouble someone else with our money.

I would not buy from MFI. We are now trying to find a small independent kitchen supplier who might actually be interested in talking to us.

MFI are absolutely awful you were wise to walk away, magnet are no better by the way, the bloke came out to the house, told me I was a fool for knocking down the wall between dining room and kitchen as nobody wanted open plan living (WTF) and he would only consider doing a plan for our kitchen if we rebuilt it - idiot!

AFAIK Howdens are the trade arm of MFI so the kitchens are essentially the same. Best tip is to find an independent joiner, get him to order and collect for you, even if you do end up buying from MFI, IKEA or Wickes. Lots of the problems come from crappy delivery services and crappy joiners - so if you can circumvent both these issues by finding someone you trust who can order and collect for you, you're halfway there.

And design your own - lots of online sites to help you do this (IKEA and B&Q spring to mind)...

That is not my experience of MFI. The guy we had was very cheery, very helpful and not at all cheesey. Of course when my kitchen turns up and half of it is missing, I may repost with a different story!

been to tecaz today and B&Q, picked up some brochures and had a look round, i like the cream doors with wooden knobs/brushed chrome long handles, with wooden work tops..dp is drawing up a kitchen plan(he likes doing this part of it) and im gunna see if i can do one online like you've mentioned..thanks for all your tips everyone, havent been to MFI as i too have only heard bad things, but tbh, we've done a lot of work to this house since we moved in 19months ago and ive still not found a tradesperson im happy with, shoddy jobs, thats whats worrying me!

we can/will take lots of stuff out ourselves, units, floor up etc, but then we may need the floor resurfacing due to the flood and how soggy and wet it is/was, the plumbing needs totally re-doing as thats the problem that caused it all, there are (shut off) gas pipes running behind units that wed never need and electric sockets currently under sink(!!!!) that would need moving, dp has also said as we dont have any heating in the kitchen he would like underfloor heating!?..how much does this cost?!

£5k from local kitchen business, including all new appliances.

we queried underfloor heating but it was too expensive for us

your kitchen sounds like the one we had put in - cream cupboards on bottom with long deep pan drawers on either side of cooker/long full length brushed satin handles/ wooden worktop and cream/frosted glass bifolds at the top

it looks lovely and am sure yours will too

havent read it all, but we have our own home improvements business. have u tried a trade place?? MFI buy theirs from trade places!!! get ema lot cheaper.

think howdens are trade arn't they?, not sure about tecaz, will jot a few address's down and visit some next weekend, but got to get someone to quote for repair/replace to all the damage first?..who would do that??..joiner, plasterer???