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.

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.

Even Ikea does stainless steel kitchens. Or there are some mid-range German brands that do excellent quality units with a lot of different finishes incl stainless steel. It’s no different to the range of price points you get with shakers.

DeVol, Neptune, Plain English, Tom Howley, Humfrey Munson

Bloody hell! My flat cost £35k, last year!

Not convinced you need to to spend that much, OP, but enjoy the process of being able to choose and get just what you want. You’ll be able to get an amazing kitchen!

I'm amazed anyone spends that on a kitchen, but I think people should spend their money in what makes them happy. The kitchen is one of the rooms I spend the most time in (we've got a kitchen diner and currently I work there too), so when we do get it redone it is a room I'd be willing to spend more on.

I hope you get something you love op.

Humphrey and Munson. I'm eyeing them up for when our kitchen needs redoing.

OP not being rude, i have just a tiny bit less than that space. it cost me under 10k for everything in the kitchen minus appliances (also includes plaster, paint, electrics, labour etc).40k is mental

howdens or benchmarx ! save you a fortune

or even more so - DIY kitchens. Shop around?

I don’t see why having a smaller house means you can’t have “top end” things. A lot of people with bigger houses don’t use their space we’ll, and instead use rooms to put furniture in to store crap they don’t need.
It’s your home, not just an investment and if you enjoy living in a space you love more than you enjoy driving a wanky car or having fancy handbags then fair enough.

Smallbone, Plain English, Tom

I'd do the same as with any project and budget - get three or four quotes from likely but different places. Then think about all their ideas, decide exactly what I wanted and get my preferred one to do that.

As for which companies, not sure but you could get Harvey Jones to quote, can you afford Smallbone of Devizes? Plus a local cabinet maker and something more ordinary as a comparator and because they might offer some good ideas.

Mereway is the brand used by John Lewis (the dept store, not the bespoke shop) but offered more cheaply by local firms. Maybe look at Burbidge, through a local firm, if you like traditional styles.

Surely there's a whole spectrum between an ikea kitchen and a £40k one.

This bread is hysterical! op has set her budget and is asking for recommendations- not for comments on how much your houses costs or how much you think she should spend!

If you can’t actually help, shut up.

op it entirely depends on your location and style. I would ask around the neighbours, see if there is a good local kitchen designer. Don’t go with a chain.

Also, read Which? on the kitchens themselves and appliances etc. Howdens are really well-rated (probably because they're only supplied and fitted by builders, who know what they're doing).

There's a limit to how many companies' time you should waste but you do pick up different ideas from different designers, however much you already think you know what you want.

@carly2803

OP not being rude, i have just a tiny bit less than that space. it cost me under 10k for everything in the kitchen minus appliances (also includes plaster, paint, electrics, labour etc).40k is mental

howdens or benchmarx ! save you a fortune

or even more so - DIY kitchens. Shop around?

You are being very dismissive though.

If someone said hey wanted to spend £40k on a car, would you tell them they were ridiculous, because you bought a ford Fiesta and it’s perfect.

People have very different budgets and styles. You are not the blueprint by which everyone should love their lives😂

A professional kitchen designer and good cabinet maker. You need exactly the right design as well as top quality construction. Plain English are in this price range aren't they?

Ooh dreaming of plain English - would £40k be enough for that? I have no idea, it’s all beyond my wildest dreams! Have you ordered the devol catalogue - those are beautiful kitchens too.

Have a look at Tom Howley? They have a nice range of stuff.

Howdens is great quality. Find an installer who have an account there and you get the trade discount. You will have a quality kitchen for significantly less

www.montagusinteriors.co.uk/kitchen-gallery-3/

Somewhere like this for traditional. A German brand for modern .

Obviously, how I chose to spend my money is the correct way. I can be nice about other people’s choices (mistakes) but only I am right. So long as you all realise this, then we’re good.

[quote CrunchyNutNC]@QuitMoaning do you mind me asking if that was fitted price or just the kitchen?[/quote]
It was in total Including fitting And all fixtures and appliances (except for dishwasher and hob).

My utility room is effectively the size of the kitchen before the extension and it included that as well.

We live in London too OP and went bespoke. I don’t regret going bespoke at all as we got cabinets which fit our space and items exactly and clever solutions that aren’t available off the peg. I do regret our choice of company so can’t recommend them (PM me if you want the name to avoid!)

Other bespoke companies I looked at who seemed good: Sola Kitchens (Scandi style), Kitchens by Holloways (friend has used them and was v pleased) and Highams (but they only do shaker really so not fully bespoke).

Another option is finding a joinery company but tbh in London you’ll pay much the same for a high end joinery company as a high end kitchen company.

Neptune, Devol are nice but not properly bespoke. Plain English is above budget I suspect and only one style really - fab for Georgian houses.

Higham Kitchens would be my recommendation. Tim Higham does the visits and all of the cabinetry is made in Hampshire. I cannot speak highly of him and his company enough

We went with hardwood bespoke 8 years ago and it cost us 42k in london. I'd start with Neptune to get a sense of what's your baseline. Comparing a hardwood kitchen with lovely granite (not the stock stuff but the kind where you choose your slab) with a 20k Howdens kitchen made of MDF just isn't helpful. That's not a huge budget for a london kitchen.

@Ideasplease322

This bread is hysterical! op has set her budget and is asking for recommendations- not for comments on how much your houses costs or how much you think she should spend!

If you can’t actually help, shut up.

op it entirely depends on your location and style. I would ask around the neighbours, see if there is a good local kitchen designer. Don’t go with a chain.

Hysterical? What an over reaction!

It’s funny. Sorry that’s my opinion. I enjoyed so many people telling op she was wrong for wanting to spend money on a kitchen.

Perhaps I should have said amusing rather than hysterical? Would you have been more comfortable with that?

A friend of mine had her kitchen made by Handmade Kitchen Co, it's just stunning. They are London based.