Hello. I really want a new kitchen and am considering getting a 5 year loan to pay for it. I was thinking of borrowing about £10K over 5 years but I don't know if this would be enough. The kitchen is about 3m x 3m and there are units on 3 walls (although one wall has an exterior door on it). I think we would keep our existing washing machine, dishwasher and fridge freezer but get an integrated oven/hob. I think we could also keep the existing flooring.
The existing kitchen is a pretty ropey DIY job by the previous owner. One unit in particular has no back and is onto bare brick wall. We are getting field mice coming in here and I am hoping that getting the walls sorted would sort this out. Our fuse box is also at the back of a corner cupboard and looks a bit dodgy.
So we would need:
-kitchen removed
-wall tiles removed
-walls replastered
-electrics sorted
-new units fitted
-ceiling sorted (it's DIY tongue and groove at the moment)
Anything else? Does this sound realistic? Would I be better using a builder who could do everything and maybe fit a Howden's kitchen (if I could afford this) than get a Homebase style kitchen (could they do the other stuff)? Thanks for any replies - I did get lots of ideas about trying to do as much work as possible ourselves before but I'm feeling a bit more daunted by this now as we didn't manage to do anything before our DD arrived in May.