Wanted:kitchen. Must be cheap and easy

[naicehameggandchips]

My kitchen seriously needs updating - peeling cupboard fronts, broken floor tiles and now my oven has broken! Have a very limited budget and so have been drawn towards Ikea but it seems there is too much you have to do yourself! The room is an irregular shape and has a boiler I want to hide behind a cupboard and cannot work out how to do that myself. I know they have a planning service but I cannot see how you book this. Am considering other places, but where will actually come to your house, measure it, give you ideas, order it all for you, install it, etc without it being mega bucks and where you can preferably pay back over a couple of years - thanks peoples!

Ikea will come to your house. But if I were you, I would find a recommended fitter or builder and get them to fit you an ikea kitchen. It's not difficult to hide a boiler at all. I hid my massive old one inside a tall cupboard at the old house and it was nay bother, just made sure to have an air vent in the bottom of the cupboard. Most people seem to have them behind wall cupboards with no floor in these days. That would work too, or whack it inside a fan cabinet. Jut check your clearances on the boiler and try to make the cupboard easily removable just in case.

My pals had a wickes kitchen installed. I wasn't impressed to be honest with the cabinets they chose, but the installers did manage to deal with their awkward kitchen shape very nicely.

We have just had a kitchen via Wickes. They have been great. The kitchen cost 3.5k for a really big room. However the installation cost 4.5k. This did included plastering, re-wiring and tiling.

Overall we love the kitchen and the fitters were great. However, the installation would of cost a lot less with an independent fitter.

We chose Wickes to install because we could pay some of it off over 5years and it was easier than arranging lots of different tradesmen.

I saw a property development programme the other day that said Ikea was the shop that most developers use.

I have only ever bought two kitchens, the first was from Ikea, for our last house. It was the Varde freestanding kitchen (I think they still make it). I loved it.

In this house, our room plans changed several times, so we started with a very small fitted kitchen from Howdens and added on as the room grew. It's nice, oak painted in French Grey, much more expensive grown up than the last one... but I don't like it as much.

I recommend B&Q; they come to your house and measure/design what you need. They can do the installation, or give you a list of "components" for you to order/assemble yourself. It was perfect for us as our kitchen is an irregular shape.

They have some good value ranges and lots of sales. We paid ours off over a year, interest free.

A boiler just needs a regular cupboard, but with no top or bottom. Pipes can then be boxed in.