How to plan my kitchen?

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I am wanting to have a new kitchen fitted. Found a beautiful DIY one. Problem is they need a kitchen plan to work out order. I also want a load bearing wall knocking down and some appliances moving so not a simple job. What order do I do everything in? Contact builder or get kitchen planned first?

We did this. We had the wall removed first then had a couple of kitchen designers round so we could be sure of dimensions, etc. We still had a functioning kitchen, albeit with half of the units removed until the trades came in and the builder came back and did the plastering, etc. Then we decorated and had the kitchen fitted. Flooring went down and plinths and new skirtings were fitted.

I recreated Magnet's plan with DIY Kitchens as the Magnet quote was ludicrously high despite the units being discounted by 75%.

Thanks. We are not able to remove wall first I think as it’s the wall with oven on!

Could you managed with a microwave for a while? You’d live on a building site but DIY Kitchens don’t tend to take too long to deliver.

Alternatively, get plans and structural engineer calculations etc and then plan. However, you will need to allow for the actual space to be a few cm off the planned dimensions.

You can move the housing the oven is in if it isn't a freestanding one and re-site it temporarily. There is always a way of doing these things. If you are knocking down a wall, putting steels in and re-doing the kitchen you just have to resign yourself to things being a bit makeshift for a while. We had a temporary kitchen in the hall - FF was unplumbed and plugged in in another room and we had an IKEA bookcase with food and a basic amount of crockery, a microwave and a single induction hob on top of a trolley.