New Kitchen - design and fitting starting points

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Hello,

Looking to have have our kitchen updated, and hoping it can be a fairly quick job as it's a very small kitchen.

We'd potentially look at:

• new flooring
• smoothing out the ceiling
• new lighting
• new worktops and sink
• new cooker top and oven
• painting
• tiling
• painting of old cupboard doors
• removal of one cupboard and replaced with tumble dryer
• additional cupboard or shelving on the wall or walls.

Sounds like quite a lot but as its a tiny space, hoping it could be done in 2-3 days.

My question is where to start - would a kitchen fitter suggest a design or would we need to have that all in place before a fitter starts work?

It's quite straightforward but we need ideas on the tumble dryer element as we're really not sure if we have the space.

Is the design a separate job?

Do we have to purchase the oven / cooker top ourselves first or would a fitter go and get this on our instruction?

Sounds quite basic questioning I know, just want a steer on where to start first!

thanks

this was us a few months ago
we have done the ground work got the measurements the quote and all we have to do first is go down and order the kitchen, we are going with DIY kitchens,

then plan to death time wise the walls being plastered (old house and covered in wallpaper at the moment), don't underestimate the damage that taking the old units off creates our walls fell apart,

the electrician to put the new plugs in, the painting of the walls, the taking the old units out, where to put the contents of the kitchen for about two weeks, and hopefully if it all goes to plan letting my son in law loose on the new units, and then getting the flooring down so far ours has taken three weeks and we still have to tile the walls and when the electrician has pulled up the floorboards to rewire the front room then we can order the flooring , on hoes under the hammer they make it look like putting a new kitchen in is easy ,
mine looked like a building site

purchase the cooker/hob before the fitter comes, for planning even though you probably wont be using them look at DIY kitchens they have an online planner that once you get the hang of it is easy to use to plan your kitchen and see if what you want is possible which you can print and then go from there
from your list electrician to do lighting and may need to put in proper wiring for the cooker
painting and tiling we are doing ours ourselves
fitter for worktops shelves etc.
flooring depends on what sort of flooring you want if going high end LVT or tiles then needs a proper company to fit if vinyl then not as hard to fit usually company you get it from can do this at a reasonable price

plasterer for the ceiling

If re plastering is needed on any of your walls, you’ll need a couple of days along for it to try before you can put anything on it.

We have a smallish kitchen and it took a week for the whole job to be complete. 2-3 days doesn’t sound like enough time to me.

Mine took a week - no plastering but the floor did need levelled once the old limestone got ripped out before the LVT was laid.

I copped out though and had a project manager. I just wish he did bathrooms as I keep putting it off as I can't face the hassle!