House needs gutting inc new kitchen - no idea of costs, help!

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We've just found a place which could be lovely and has a massive eat in kitchen (14.3 x 13.9) but the existing one is in right rag order. Roughly how much might we need to pay for a replacement? It needs new flooring, lighting, white goods etc. I am tentatively budgeting in about £12k for a nice but fairly basic replacement with good white goods and cooker etc, no add ons like a kitchen island. It also needs a new bathroom and a load of other work but I think I can live with everything else as long as the kitchen is done. Does this sound reasonable?

if you go to Howdens and shop around for the appliances, may be possible.

Will you be doing a u shaped kitchen, so leaving one wall free of units? Will you be wanting someone to fit it for you?

Do you want others to do all the work or are you happy to pitch in?

I'm having my kitchen done at the moment
Mines 5mx 7m - the flooring (taking up old floor, levelling compound, laying new gorgeous porcelain floor) is costing £2.1K
Handbuilt bespoke oak kitchen including quartz worktop, removal of old kitchen, installation of new kitchen, plastering skim (where wall tiles are removed), glass splash back, lighting in cupboards, ceiling lights, glass shelves, electrics & plumbing -£27K
Appliances - 2 neff ovens, Bosch 5 burner hob, Bosch hood, Samsung fullheight fridge £2K
Keeping old neff freezer & miele dishwasher.
We are selling the existing kitchen to help fund it and I'm painting the Walls.
We could have gone a lot cheaper using a standard kitchen, fitting ourselves but we wanted something to last.

Yes U shaped kitchen with one wall free for table (currently there's bits of kitchen on all four which seems excessive and not a great use of space). not keen to do any of the work as we're not competent but equally can't afford the bespoke handbuilt - Wonky it's helpful to hear about appliance costs as that's about what we'd anticipated, but that's loads of money for the main bits! Sounds beautiful.

The main bits are only expensive because we've gone for a solid oak kitchen made by a joiner, full of quirky touches (curved cupboards, 2 huge larder cupboards and a huge dresser unit) and top of the range quality (solid oak, quartz) which is exactly as we wanted it.
If you went for a regular carcass built kitchen with less expensive worktops I reckon you could do it for less than half that.

Same goes for the appliances.
Good places to look at appliance costs - www.AO.com and www.appliancecity.co.uk/

I think that budget is OK if you are careful. Depending on how much your units and installation costs are, you may have to compromise on things like the worktops where the price can vary enormously depending on what kind you fancy.

How about Ikea? I have heard good things about the quality of their kitchens - though I've heard bad things about their fitters! Maybe you could get the stuff from there cheaply and pay a local fitter?

We're doing it for a bit less than that for a similar size, kitchen is from Wickes and appliances are Siemens. Flooring getting at a good price as have family in the trade.

Do able

We did 3.5k for units, appliances, worktops, flooring, electrics, knocking down a wall, plastering etc.

We did do the vast majority of it ourselves though which obviously has a huge impact on costs. Getting people in would probably double your costs but should still come in under budget

Kitchen renovation

Kitchen is mostly from Ikea, they were 50% cheaper than the next nearest quote we had (homebase), although we got some appliances elsewhere as went for slightly higher quality (neff)