DIY Kitchens!

[AltheaVestr1t]

Currently planning a house move and a new kitchen, and I'm leaning towards a navy and white kitchen from DIY kitchens. There are a few DIY Kitchen threads on here but none since 2016. Does anyone have any good or bad experiences of DIY Kitchens to share? Thanks!

@Stampcee thanks I’ll have a look, it’s just as shame as we live relatively near DIY so can visit the show room. Really frustrating about the online planner, puts me off using them. I also wonder if they have done it until after the price rise in Oct to discourage new orders

@Soulstirring: I have heard there are some free online applications to use for design, e.g. sketchup. I got my design done by Karen from OnePlan, coz I am too tired looking after 15 months old DS and working full time.

Beautiful kitchen @boredboredboredboredbored. Can I ask which worktop you have please?

@WoolyMammoth55 @L0obyLou Sorry only just saw your questions. Its solid beech from worktop Express. I don't like the darkness / yellow ness of oiled wood so I finished this with Osmo oil white tint, doesn't show very well in these photos. HTH 👍🏻

@boredboredboredboredbored thanks for the info. The worktop looks really good with the dove grey - perfect combination. I would love a solid wood top but don't think I can be trusted to take care of it!

Hello, had their kitchen installed in our previous house. Didn't visit the showroom. Was really happy. In fact planning to potentially use them again, in our fancier (one day) "new" (it doesn't deserve that word) home.

We did visit the showroom recently on our way back from York, as otherwise a bit of a hike from London. Convinced me to seriously consider them again. You need to book bcs of covid, although we had no clue we had to and they still let us in (4 people).

Also ordered a bunch of quartz worktop samples from them. They seem to have quite good deals on them (the worktops, not samples, although samples are also pretty cheap at £3/each, think VAT on top)

@AltheaVestr1t

Currently planning a house move and a new kitchen, and I'm leaning towards a navy and white kitchen from DIY kitchens. There are a few DIY Kitchen threads on here but none since 2016. Does anyone have any good or bad experiences of DIY Kitchens to share? Thanks!

Think we have paid ~3-4k for the first kitchen - was 3.5x3.5m but not all walls had cupboards.

For the next one, much larger that we are planning (4.3x4.3m - units practically on 3x walls, with a very large island 1.2x2.4m -) I got the units (with VAT) at about £7.5-8.5k depending on the units as the fancier drawers and pullout units are much more expnsive (I have a plan in Excel so easy to copy and make changes and look at the cost).

Quartz worktops - (again large area ~9 running metres of worktop plus that 1.2x2.4m island and splashback, etc) would cost from about £2k (for 20mm thickness and a more "plain" colour). They have their own range (Innova) that even the fancy marble effect ones come out at £3-4k for all the length above, which seems a good deal compared to other companies.
Also think a colleague at work paid more for a much smaller worktop (half or a thrid of what I said above, Corian at ~£3k).

My kitchen is from diy kitchens and it looks amazing. My architect dealt with the design/ordering etc so I don't have any input on that but end result is fantastic.