How much was your kitchen?

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I hope this is not super cheeky but I'm trying to gauge what is a realistic budget for a kitchen. I know we can't afford top of the range everything but not do I want basic.
So how much did you spend? Budget. Thanks.

We spent 7 thousand on units from DIY kitchens (2 larder, two tall oven, 3 tall reduced depth units and 4 base units). We fitted it ourselves really easily. Appliances (2 ovens, induction hob) came to £1500 and worktop were the budget beech ones from worktopexpress that came to just under 1300 including their cutting service. Didn't need a new dishwasher and spend 300 having the electrics extended for the ovens to move. No fitting costs to save money.

10k is a big budget, OP if it only needs to cover cabinets, worktops and appliances. I'm sure you'll be able to get a fab kitchen for that.

Dont agree with the comment about it dependung on where you are - with online companies as mentioned above and big nationals with nationwide pricing, the only variable is labour.

I agree that its how long is a piece of string - have done an Ikea kitchen for less than £5k, a DIY Kitchen for about £9k and most recently an in-frame wooden kitchen for about double that.

Worktops & appliances can make a massive difference so shop around for those. I phoned about 10 quartz suppliers and prices for the same brand/measurements varied from £2,500 to £5k!

£42,000 all in with top end appliances and masses of granite.

We spent 16k,16 years ago which included labour, extensive building work, units,appliances and work tops.
Difficult to say without seeing the room but my advice would be, spend as much as you can afford on hardwearing work tops. We spent over 3k on granite work tops and even though it was a massive outlay for us at the time, they look as good as the day they were installed.
In fact the whole kitchen looks as good as new and I think that's because of the granite.

Small kitchen - I’m hoping not much more than £10k for everything, but I can’t find what I want, so still looking.

27K with appliances. It is a fancy one though!

£12k but fairly large kitchen - negotiated quite big discounts and did some things like painting myself. That included new lighting, flooring and electrics and some plastering from 2 rooms being knocked together.

It was just under twenty grand, but it has a huge island, granite worktops, all new appliances, and a range cooker.

We bought ours from B&Q for £3,000, and that included a microwave, oven and hob. We got a discount because my partner's brother has a trade card, which saved us almost £1,000 - because for some reason the discount got knocked off twice. We only noticed when we got home as we were stressed when we paid (the design took ages) and we're too dishonest to go back.

His brother fitted it for us, and we just had to pay £200 for someone to plaster the room, £120 for a tiler, and £250 for flooring. So in total we paid £3,560 which I believe is really cheap, and it looks stunning.

I've since spent a fortune on accessories though as I was determined we were having everything new!

@Percypigsareyummy that's a lot. How much is your house worth if you don't mind me asking?

3600 for the actual kitchen, worktops and sink. No appliances included. We bought them separate and already had some

DIY kitchens and we got it delivered a month or so ago and it was fantastic and is Brill quality

The price did include knocking 2 rooms together, putting in a rsj, and we spent quite a bit getting the floor sorted as it was originally 2 different levels and we wanted it flat. House is worth approx £800,000 in Northamptonshire.

Percy, sounds like it's pretty fancy :)

I'm in the middle of doing this right now. Spent 3k knocking down walls and putting RSJs in, new french doors and bi folds. Then 3.5 k on cabinets/island, 3.5k on quartz worktop. 2k appliances and another thousand probably on sink/taps and bits and bobs. Quoted 3k to instal as there is plastering, massive electrics and a new utility room to sort out. I will be so glad when it's over. It's a massive room now, must learn how to post pics here.

It’s not so much the kitchen but all the extras. 17k, like others have said a huge amount of that was appliances. New fridge freezer, range cooker, hit water tap, washer, dishwasher, built in microwave. Oh then granite worktops. Flooring kept from previous kitchen.

DS lives in a two bed terrace, his cost 9k with appliances and Formica worktops. Tiling and flooring not included and remain unfinished due to lack of funds.

Oh and mine was eight years ago, DS last month.

@Isittheend . Don't use Wrens. We tried a coup,e of branches. Their design was utterly uninspiring, although you do get good ideas from the showrooms. However, getting a price is a total farce. It's like buying double glazing in the 90s. Discount if you buy today. Won't let you take the designs away. When you look elsewhere the price drops.

We went to DIY Kitchens. The quality is better than Wrens (although Wrens was ok and not rubbish). They were responsive and had stopped two doors going out due to a quality control issue which they sent on two days later. Couldn't fault them.

We’re doing this at the minute and I think £10k is plenty of it doesn’t need to include the electrics, plastering etc.

We’re doing it at the minute and paying:

£4.2k Howdens fairford kitchen
£800 for worktops from worktop express
£1.2k for fitting
£2.5k for appliances (inc a range cooker and American fridge freezer)
£500 for tiling
£600 for flooring

So that’s within your budget and ours is a medium-large kitchen. We’ve spent about £1k each on plastering and electrics too.

If you’re very careful about the rest you might be able to get quartz worktops.

We spent around £35,000 10 years ago but we have a valuable house. Spending £10,000 wouldn’t have cut it or gone very far.

Value of your house is everything really. No point spending £40,000 on one worth £200,000. I would not spend £10,000 on one worth £2m either where cheaper finishes and appliances just are not good enough. However £10,000 should be ok if the fitting, electrics and drainage are not a problem. Plus flooring and wall finishes of course.

About £30k all in (units, worktops, appliances, plumbing, electrics, plastering, flooring, UFH)

13 Units (3 tall including pull out larder.and butler's cupboard with o cost doors. handmade in-frame, Neptune Suffolk lookalike by local cabinet makers) £9500

Quartz worktop supplied direct from stonemason £3959

Makes me think our £45k is quite a lot

£16k, that included appliances and we needed quite a bit of electrical work, plastering virtually every surface (due to hideous 1980s tiles), most appliances (kept oven) and flooring. We got wood units but not solid wood - they have the artificial panel in the middle - to get solid wood you need to spend huge amounts of money. Its a kitchen in a small bed house but the kitchen and dining room were knocked together so quite a lot of units. Only regret is we went for a mid range laminate worktop and should have got a better one.

small 4 bed house!

Being a nosy fucker, I really want to see some of these £40k+ kitchens

That's nearly as much as the first house I bought in 2003!