Can an Ikea kitchen be called 'bespoke' by estate agent?

[Reastie]

This is s silly question really but I have a friend who is selling her house. She has an ikea kitchen recently installed. Nothing fancy and everything (worktops/appliances/units etc) from Ikea. Had a nose at her estate agent listing online at it says it's a 'bespoke' kitchen.

It doesn't bother me either way what's written for her house, makes no odds to me, but I just wondered if it's the norm to call an ikea kitchen bespoke. I would assume from reading the literature from estate agent this meant made to measure/high quality. Maybe I'm taken in by all of these terms!

Like I say, really unimportant and I have no problem with it, but it got me thinking and I didn't know where else to go to get the opinion on it.

I would not refer to an Ikea kitchen as bespoke. I wouldn't call it high specification either. Bespoke to me would be a handmade kitchen.

Have you got a link?

If anything, bespoke would ring alarm bells for me - why does it need bespoke, why couldn't a big standard fitter do it, is the room an odd shape, how much will that cost to re-fit?

But then I reckon the estate agents round here would label damp as "period feature walls"

I hate estate speak

Well I suppose any kitchen is bespoke, in that they are built to a personalised specification.

I guess that technically it is bespoke insofar as the cabinets are chosen and arranged specifically to fit that kitchen and the owners requirements.

But no, I wouldn't call an ikea kitchen "bespoke"

Suppose it's down to your interpretation of bespoke...in a way every kitchen is bespoke because the units are combined in that configuration specifically for that property.
It's a bit cheeky though, and I wouldn't say it's bespoke if it was me. To me, it's a handmade kitchen by a carpenter/joiner not off-the-shelf units.
There are other ways of describing a brand new kitchen from Ikea, I'd reckon!

To be honest, I just tune out most of the bollocks that estate agents write... Where do they come up ith it all?

I recently read an advert describing a "deceptive terraced house". Not "deceptively spacious", no, that might actually have made sense. This house was just deceptive. Is that supposed to be a good thing?

You could perhaps stretch to bespoke if something like this had been done

aubreyandlindsay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/tips-tricks-for-buying-ikea-kitchen.html

i think i might like a deceptive house.

I expect the estate agent hasn't really thought about what the word actually means and is just using it because there is a nice modern fairly new fitted kitchen. It's just a word they like using because it's generally perceived as positive and sounds a bit fancy.

Another stock phrase they trot out is 'purpose built' - well yes, of course it's purpose built...for people to live in.
I know it sometimes applies to things that have been converted and flats built as flats rather than a house split, but it still irritates me.

Really don't want to link, sorry.

So this is just regular estate agent bollocks speak then

Time to damp comment. We have some of the period wall features in our house

Brown a deceptive house. What was deceptive about it? Was it really not a house at all ?

I always like to be pleasantly surprised when it comes to viewing properties, so if the ea is suggesting a very high end kitchen in the particulars, I would be very disappointed to find a cheap and cheerful ikea kitchen!

However if I have no real expectations, a nicely fitted new ikea kitchen may be a bonus.

I personally prefer a crap kitchen when buying a house, I then don't have to feel guilty ripping it out.

It sounds like utter bollocks, like describing a dress from Sainsburys as hand stitched! I love Ikea but they are about as far from bespoke as you can get, for great reasons. The agent needs a slap but I'm sure the kitchen is fab.

There was a beuatiful flat on Rightmove recently described as being "notorious". It's really irritating that so many EAs don't even seem to understand the English language.

*beautiful

I don't think I want a house to be any more deceptive than mine already is. It's already a mystery to me how it get so untidy so quickly and where all the chargers go DH I'm looking at you