If you had £40,000 to spend on a kitchen ?

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Where would you go ?

Excluding appliances, floor and any building work. It's not a huge room (3.3M by 5m) basically a large galley so no room for an island. I was thinking we would look at a local firm (we're in London) as we'd like deeper than normal cabinets so we can add in a larder area and make the most of the wide space, but I'm nervous that this will blow the budget.

40K on a 3.3M by 5m kitchen...
I’d put the money towards a kitchen extension.

I would hope you could get handmade cabinetry and some change to be honest! We just did our whole kitchen for around £40k to include £20k of building work, plus cabinets (DIY), appliances (mostly Neff), worktops (Quartz), flooring, decorating and fitting

Why would you blow £40k on that space?

We spent about 25k at the Unfitted kitchen company in the Cotswolds on our small country cottage kitchen. I adore our kitchen and they were very easy to deal with.

It's in frame and painted. Love it

I had a new kitchen in a room bigger than yours with an island and a large utility room, Wren were quoting approximately £22,000 but I expected it to end up around £16/£17k once the managers special one off discounts had been applied.

For similar design but upgraded countertops and splash backs although similar appliances, I ended up paying around £27k for a far superior kitchen that was completely bespoke and designed around my requirements from a local Independent specialist.

Two years later it was money well spent and I love it every day. No regrets.

Chippindale for cabinets, Perry for ceramics.

@QuitMoaning do you mind me asking if that was fitted price or just the kitchen?

40K on a 3.3M by 5m kitchen...
I’d put the money towards a kitchen extension.

That’s exactly what I thought. It only makes sense if you’re in a flat in prime prime London to spend that sort of money. You can get a bespoke kitchen for that. I quite like Devol and Plain English.
Otherwise, I agree I’d spend money on extending and you could probably get a wooden kitchen for half that.

I'm hoping to spend pretty much exactly £40k doing a single storey extension to our dining room and turning that into a large kitchen diner with all new kitchen fittings. £40k is a colossal amount to kit out a kitchen of your current size. Nice 'problem' to have though!

If I had £40k to spend on a kitchen
I'd do something more useful with £25k of it

Never ceases to amaze me what people think is reasonable to spend on a kitchen.
But if you have money to burn I suppose...

My house was £38,000!
1996 to be fair, but still!

@Dohorseseatapples

40K on a 3.3M by 5m kitchen... I’d put the money towards a kitchen extension.

Our entire flat was 38K in 2002!

Wow. Ours was a local independent and a MUCH bigger room. Got beautiful painted solid wood, aspects of it made to measure, huge made to measure pantry unit, island with double width wooden worktop plus a nice range cooker. Around 1/4 of the price that you are thinking. I'd be shopping around and putting some money aside for something else if I were you.

I would look for a bespoke and independent cabinet maker who would handcraft exactly what I wanted. A Neptune kitchen would be lovely too I’m sure, I’d definitely pop into one of their showrooms.

We've just had the entire ground floor of our house replastered, rewired, wood floor throughout, new central heating system and a fitted kitchen with appliances for less than that! 😱

Wow, I appreciate its a big sum of money but I didn't expect some of the comments. We have been saving for years and this is the last area of the house to do.

So to answer some of the responses. No, we can't extend. Nor do we want to extend the kitchen. Part of the change would create a breakfast bar into the dining area so would open it up more.

Yes we are in a prime area. This is our forever house and the current IKEA kitchen is falling to bits around me. When I look at some of the local bespoke kitchen makers, many of the websites say things like "starting price 30k or 40k", so I assume they are out of our budget.

We’ve just ordered our kitchen and it’s 42k. It’s a stainless steel kitchen with ceramic worktops. I wanted an industrial kitchen not the ubiquitous shaker.

@intheningnangnong

We’ve just ordered our kitchen and it’s 42k. It’s a stainless steel kitchen with ceramic worktops. I wanted an industrial kitchen not the ubiquitous shaker.

How big is the room?

If it’s taken you years to save 40k, perhaps look at Handmade Kitchens Direct or similar. I think they do bespoke sizes and you’ll have a lot of your savings leftover.

I'd say sod the kitchen and travel for a few months.

Where do you come from OP? Do you realise you have no idea what things cost in "normal" London?

For a small space it is often cheaper to install bespoke, handmade carpentry. Don't ask for local recommendations if you live in somewhere ultra expensive like Belgravia or Chelsea. Ask around in the zone 2 Facebook groups or Rate My Builder or whatever they are called.

As a general rule of thumb you don't need to be spending more than £400 per tradesman per day, whatever your postcode.

@Thisismytimetoshine the area that the kitchen is in is 6.3 x 3.5 so not that different to OP’s

If I had that amount to spend I'd be looking at deVol kitchens