Ikea kitchen?

[Doryhunky]

I have a very small galley kitchen which was fitted in the 80s and is now falling apart. I was holding out until I could afford to knock through but I don’t think that will happen.
So I need to find a cheap way to sort it and am thinking using Ikea both products and fitting is a good idea due to value and zero finance. Am I right?
At a minimum i need to replace the gas hob sink and work top. I presume Ikea wouldn’t do just that. In which case I would need to add extractor and 2.5 base units as next step. Step after that would be to add wall cabinets and the final step would be to add base and wall cabinets to other side.

I had an Ikea kitchen in my last house. The supply and fitting was great. However, for their zero finance they have minimum spend limits so I’d suggest going into store and speaking to one of the kitchen staff about your plans.

@tdl2016, we are looking at a new kitchen, our current one is a disgrace and an embarrassment. I've been putting it off for years because I can't face the disruption.

If you could offer some advice I'd be grateful!

did you go for the whole design service, and around how much were the fitting costs, and was it a complete service (tiling, plumbing etc) and how long did it take - (our kitchen is smallish, about 2.5mx3.5m)? Would you have another one?

Thanks!

Hi, it was a few years ago now, I went for the whole design service, we were just replacing like for like really, no knocking walls down or anything going in a new place, so there was no new plumbing or electrics needed so fitting costs were low, can’t remember exactly.
I live in a new build and if I could swap the kitchen that came with house for an Ikea one tomorrow, I would. Any issues were easily dealt with and from design to install it was about a month in all.

When I redid my kitchen last year I thought about Ikea but have a local kitchen fitter out first to get a price. He said that he hated fitting ikea because they leave tiny gaps behind the units for pipes and wiring. (Obvs this doesn't matter if you get them to fit it).

I ended up going with Howdens which is a trade brand. You need a builder onboard before you can contact them for quotes or prices for stuff, which is a bit annoying if you don't no what you want yet. I got my whole kitchen all the bells etc for £4000 (without fitting).

I have just had a new Ikea kitchen put in and am very pleased with it. We fitted it ourselves as the fitting cost was almost as much as the kitchen itself.
It was relatively easy to do but if you are sure you don't want to fit it, I would get some prices from independent fitters just to compare.

If you are on a really tight budget and able to fit yourself (if I understand your post correctly, you are planning to fit it in stages?), you could look at buying a second-hand kitchen?

Thanks, yes, I'd heard about some fitters not liking to fit Ikea kitchens.

Really not looking forward to it, but it is approaching a kitchen crisis.

(Some) fitters moan because Ikea units are bigger and go to the wall and pipes etc go underneath the units. But, really, lots of people have Ikea kitchens so it's perfectly possibly for fitters to get over that.

We've got the old Faktum but I'd definitely be looking at Metod whenever we replace this one having seen it in holiday rentals. I'm looking at Metod now for a bathroom.

We fit our own ikea kitchen. It was really not too hard (we arent DIY experts by any stretch!) And cut the costs considerably.

Fitters who do not like Ikea kitchens need to get over themselves and learn to work tidily within the plinth space.

I designed my own kitchen using the design tool and that then listed all the part needed and I got a local fitter to install it.

All of the appliances and worktops came from different suppliers
( do not let anybody give you the rubbish about Ikea units being non standard sizes )

I love ikea kitchens I think they are really good for the price
I used one in a old house, I designed and fitted it myself with my ex - which was great as neither of us had any experience in fitting kitchens, ok diy skills and an eye for detail but still got a good finish for a rock bottom price.
I have used them on two recent clients utility rooms to compliment much much more expensive kitchens - one bespoke and one from magnet both fitted by the main contractor.
The Ikea utility rooms looked fab and in keeping with the more expensive kitchens and in the case of the magnet one (chosen by the client) was slightly better quality as well as a whole lot less faff

By the sounds of it, your cabinets are okay? You can always just go for a new worktop to replace your old one if so and then chose a sink and your ideal hob to sit on top. If so, a good joiner/builder/plumber can do that for you all in the space of 2 days if it is a small kitchen, then you can look at saving up more money for later, when you can afford to enlarge the area. Look at chalk paint for cabinet doors if they are looking tired, as they can breathe new life into them without spending a fortune on new doors.

You can get second hand kitchens on Facebook marketplace sometimes for very little money, but people expect you to dis-mantle it and take it away on quite specific dates (usually because they have another kitchen arriving).
Or have you tried asking on your local free cycle page?

Update. I have found someone who thinks he can replace the hob without the whole worktop falling apart so immediate need for kitchen is gone. Which means I can carry on saving/dreaming for the knock through as otherwise I was looking at 5k for a very basic kitchen in a tiny space! And the cabinets are fine so maybe painting them is a good way forward!