How much did you new kitchen cost? Is it bespoke?

[Kazzabob]

Hi

We are in the process of applying for planning permission for a two storey extension. I'm wanting to change our current kitchen into a larger open planned kitchen with dining and seating area.

Just looking for ideas at the moment and trying to get an idea with regards to costs. Could you let me know @approx cost of kitchen, whether it's off the shelf or bespoke and if there are any companies you would recommend. Got some brochures - Rencraft and Cotteswood have arrived so far! We live in Oxfordshire.

Thank you!

Last time I did a kitchen 5 years ago (last house) it was £18k for everything including labour and electricals. Units were £6k from Old Creamery- which is a similar look to Cotteswood and Rencraft. Also try Parlour Farm which is my current kitchen and is much better quality actually but not sure of price point.

Unfitted Kitchens - cost around £11,000

Not a million miles from you if you fancy visiting showroom

Thanks - will take a look at both. We have bespoke kitchen already so am really hoping we can afford in new kitchen!

Ours is Second Nature. Units (carcasses & doors) were about £11.5k. Solid wood. It is off the peg with bespoke elements. Total for the job (flooring, lighting, fitting, appliances, tiling, worktops etc) was about £35k - it's a big room and we went high spec on most things. Love it

Second Nature site is good as it gives you lots of examples for different prices - you're happy with the product and service?

Yes. Really good. The service was very good - we went with a long established small local company with an excellent reputation and who we'd had direct personal recommendations of. I don't think SN have their own shops/showrooms direct to the public.

The cabinets themselves are very nice, solid, well made (proper joints etc) and will more than likely outlast my taste for them! I went for a classic style that should stand up reasonably well to changes in tastes

I also used Unfitted about two years ago - I think it was about £12.5 in the end but I had a big island with granite top which was about half of that. I loved working with them - my kitchen is actually on their home page. My friend is using them at the moment too. I think the quality is really great and I love the fact that you can sort of design it yourself on their website and cost it all.

We have granite currently so reckons we'd go that way again if poss. Is the website unfitted.co.uk ?

yes that's the right address - I think you have to login to be able to use the site properly - as in select the cabinets etc that you want and then it prices them etc. They will also do the cabinetry only and then you can get the worktop elsewhere (everyone prob does) which I would have done were I not so lazy. Also I think it cost about £1500 for fitting but the guys that did it were amazing and we had various problems (like I had ordered a freezer too bloody tall for the worktop height) and they were so helpful and calm about everything. It was well worth paying their guys to do it unless you are very handy yourself.

mine was ikea (picture on my profile) all you can see plus the utility room cost £3k in ikea units, £1k in worktops, £2k in appliances and £800 to have it fitted

Just did mine. It was made by a carpenter in a modern shaker style and is completely bespoke, solid wood, dovetail joints, soft close etc. The units cost 700gbp per linear metre for base and wall units including door / drawer fronts (though floor to ceiling cupboards were double). Installation was 750 and getting them hand painted was 750 for about 9 metres of units. Wooden knobs were included but anything fancier would have been extra. In total about 8k.

On top of this came worktops, appliances, lights, new flooring and electrics.

Londongirl - are you happy with everything? Whereabouts is you joiner from? If you don't mind my asking - how much for work tops? Thanks!

God so expensive. We need to do our kitchen soon and think I will be going to Ikea too!

I've almost finished returning our bathroom which cost about 1500 including new suite, re plastering and new floorboards (we had wet rot), though I did most of it myself (and a bit of help from dh, ds1 & ds2).

We need to do the kitchen. 2 walls will need re plastering. The units themselves are sound, it's just the doors and the worktop which are knackered. I am hoping to get it done for 3k!

Returning?

Refurbishing!

We had a fully bespoke handmade oak kitchen/breakfast room fitted in Dec. It cost us approx. £28k all in.
It's a big room with really high units(2.5m) and included replastering, new porcelain floor, new lighting, new appliances (Miele, neff, AEG & Bosch), Silestone worktops, beautiful curved solid oak cupboards, glass shelves & glass splash back.
It's beautiful but as the company we used has their workshop in Darlington so probably aren't much use to you I'm afraid.

OMG! These sound very expensive. I mean I don't mind spending money on something nice but really? We have just had a quote done from Howdens including under counter fridge, mini wine cooler fridge, dishwasher, hob, oven sink taps - 16,000. That does not include fitting, electrics, plumbing, flooring.

It just seems alot of money - am I being really stingy here?

If I earned 150,000 a year I may consider it otherwise but I don't and I want a new kitche but I don't want IKEA...I'm 40, I'm done with IKEA (no offence to people who choose IKEA).

We will shortly be having out new kitchen fitted in our new extension. We got a price from Magnet bug architect recommended local fitter and we are now getting a bespoke kitchen for a big less than the Magnet one was. It is costing £14k which includes painted MDF units, granite work surfaces, appliances and fitting. It doesn't include the flooring and lighting which are part if the bigger job. Can't wait

Kitchen in my house which was part of an extension was done 7 years ago but the some of the material lining the doors (plasticky is peeling) its a big kitchen with high ceilings and lovely splash back and floor tiles but would consider changing doors... Is this possible? Is it expensive? Can you do it even if you don't know who made the kitchen

Also how long should a new kitchen last.. This is not a forever home for me...

Ours was from Cotteswood and is on their web site under previous commissions gallery. It was about £35000. I reused my fridges, 2 ovens and microwave though. So about £40,000 would cover it (excluding flooring). It is a large kitchen though and the table was built in. Cotteswood were so pleasant to deal with and very helpful. Can't fault them.

OP. There is a big difference between Second Nature and Cotteswood. I have both. Second Nature in our holiday home. This house is about 1/5 the value of our main house with the Cotteswood kitchen. I think your choice may need to reflect the value of your home and also the age of it. Don't spend a fortune on a kitchen in a £300k house (for example) in Oxfordshire. Economically it will not be worth it, although do have a fantastic kitchen if you want one!

Wow there's some expensive ones on here! Blimey how big are your kitchens?! In our old house so this going back 7 years or so we did the kitchen/diner for under 2.5k but oh is in a trade so we got everything discounted even at full time it wouldn't have been now than 4k. It was howdens kitchen units, them work top, tiles, floor tiles, sink etc all came from different places think that can keep the cost down

If you have a high value house you really don't want to spend £4k on the kitchen though. It is just not good enough if you might want to sell the house. Buyers would expect a fairly high end kitchen. Likewise, in a smaller, lower value home, why would you spend more than a few thousand? I wouldn't! In the past I haven't ! My kitchen is pretty big but if you have bespoke and lots of granite, I can assure you it is not cheap. Fitting costs are included in the costs I gave as we cannot install it. Having done research before we bought, some of the top end brands are even more: think Smallbone, Martin Moore, Mark Wilkinson and a few more. If your house is worth several £m though, this is the sort of kitchen that is expected.

The bespoke hardwood and granite hand painted kitchen in my last house was under £8000, but didn't include floor or appliances.

obviously a company would have charged more, but I project managed it myself with various trades. A good joiner was key. The hardwood was tulipwood- it was being painted.

You don't have to spend a fortune.