What did you do with your old kitchen?

[squeezeoflemon]

We are replacing the kitchen in our new house, there's nothing particularly wrong with the old kitchen it's just not to our taste. It's about 6 years old.

It seems a waste to chuck it in the tip, but I am already really stressed with the house renovation/work/young DC so don't have loads of time...what have others done? Have you tried eBay or other websites and how difficult was the process?

Thank you!

@chandylier Thanks for that.
We're planning to put the wall units in the utility but I'd like to pass some of the kitchen on, even if I don't get anything for it.

Sorry to ask another question but when you buy them are you buying something that matches the size of your kitchen etc? Or do you buy bigger and use the bits you need?

Delila we were altering the layout because ours was badly planned so we deliberately went quite a bit bigger. The odds of finding something that is exactly the right size is fairly low so you will need to work out what you need (X number of base units, y number of wall units, additional doors for built in appliances etc) and look out for something with at least that much. I judged perfectly and we ended up with nothing left over.

We built a new house and had a 5k budget for a kitchen. I bought a second hand inframe solid wood kitchen, including granite countertops for €1,600 and paid to have the granite cut to size, for a carpenter to make it fit the size and to have it painted. I now have a very spectacular high end kitchen (and utility room) for approx €4k, three local trademen had work and only one new kitchen was purchased by the original owner of my kitchen. Everyone is a winner as far as I'm concerned.
In fact, the only thing I bought new for my house is mattresses. Everything else is (beautiful and ) second hand.

Sold it on eBay for £1300

delilabell

Both times I've done it, I've bought bigger kitchens and then planned accordingly. Usually I end up taking a few spare units apart to repair more useful ones that are damaged (they often get water damage around the sink, or cut into for pipework, fit a hob etc). What's left over at the end is then taken to the tip!

Stick it on eBay for low start price. Someone will want it.

Very naughty to stick it in a skip as it will just go to landfill.

It’s just an old saying Aliens, it kinda means you’d argue with anyone. Proved my point there.