How much was your amazing kitchen?

[Chickenkatsu]

DP says we'd need to spend over £20k to get a good kitchen, I think that we could get one for less. How much did you spend?

@stayathomegardener - did you mean this place:

www.theusedkitchencompany.com/product-category/kitchens-for-sale/?orderby=price-desc

It looks really good, I hadn't heard of it but it's def worth consideration.

Wren 10k i walked in and said I will spending 5k on units and not a penny more, new cooker 1k flooring 1k Island 1k 2k on the rest....

We had a lovely mid range one fitted with oak worktops, Belfast sink and integrated appliances including a huge bellington range for £10k about 4 years ago.

My handmade kitchens of Christchurch kitchen is arriving on Monday (sadly it won’t be installed yet as the building work is running behind...surprise!) but we’ll end up with a 40sqm kitchen/diner.

Our units including 4 90cm double cupboards, 2 sets of 90cm pan drawers, 2 counter standing units with reeded glass doors, sink unit, bin unit, appliance door and all the plinths and stuff, back panel for peninsular etc came to £7200.
3k for marble look quartz worktops
3k for appliances (range), extractor, American fridge and dishwasher, we shopped around on the internet.
£250 for handles
£500 for sink and tap.
£2k to fit and paint.

So not miles off £20k plus we’ve spent another £20k on on building work to knock down walls and flooring etc.

It all adds up!

Cabinets, DIY kitchens, solid painted shaker doors: £5.5k
Appliances: mid-high range including Neff slide& hide oven, combi micro, F&P fridge freezer, 2x DW, induction hob: £5.5k
Worktops - Quartz, 6ish m^2: £3.5k
Sink & tap - £800
Fitting (by builder) - £2k
Electrics - £2k including new box
Flooring - tiles & heat mat: £1200 fitted

So yeah, that’s around £20k. It’s a mid-high end kitchen, it can be done for a lot less.

It depends how high end you want really and how big your kitchen is. I spent £9k on our last kitchen with gloss cupboards (only 9 of them), a butler sink, metro tiles and lights. But I negotiated hard for that price. The lights weren't worth it as we never used them. This didn't include flooring or appliances and the kitchen was small although open plan.

@user1471528245, I always assumed John Lewis would be really costly! Did your fitting cost include moving any appliances/water pipes/waste pipes/boiler, or did you pretty much replace like for like?

@Chickenkatsu no but I've heard good things about that company too.

This is the one.

top of the range will cost more than £20k all in. As others have said though it varies depending on whether you mean top of smallbone, neptune, howdens or ikea

@SollaSollew

My handmade kitchens of Christchurch kitchen is arriving on Monday (sadly it won’t be installed yet as the building work is running behind...surprise!) but we’ll end up with a 40sqm kitchen/diner.

Our units including 4 90cm double cupboards, 2 sets of 90cm pan drawers, 2 counter standing units with reeded glass doors, sink unit, bin unit, appliance door and all the plinths and stuff, back panel for peninsular etc came to £7200.
3k for marble look quartz worktops
3k for appliances (range), extractor, American fridge and dishwasher, we shopped around on the internet.
£250 for handles
£500 for sink and tap.
£2k to fit and paint.

So not miles off £20k plus we’ve spent another £20k on on building work to knock down walls and flooring etc.

It all adds up!

I look forward to hearing about your kitchen and maybe see photos too. We had to put off ours which we ordered before lockdown twice now - it will eventually be coming early January.

I expect our total spend will be similar to your but on top of that we’re spending up to £80k on an extension.

We paid £27,000 for a handmade shaker style kitchen inc appliances, not including tiles etc.
It's absolutely gorgeous and beautifully made but in hindsight seeing as this wasn't a forever home property it was stupid to spend that much!!

What is handmade ? I would think just about every kitchen will have most parts made in a factory or workshop , I can't imagine a joiner sat with hand tools making a door from a piece of timber. Is it marketing or refer to the bits put together in your home ?

My Ikea kitchen was hand made
because the fab chippy who installed it for me adjusted several cupboard depths to fit around the concrete and the plinth depths vary
and matching everything into the exiting plumbing was definitely a bespoke service

Try JohnJames Bespoke Carpentry. 2 local young guys (John and Jamie) who are amazing. Started their own company last November and couldn't recommend them highly enough. Everything is completely bespoke and made to your needs. They have a website and Instagram. Really competitive with their prices too

We spent around £25k which included knocking down a wall and putting a rsj in, vaulting the ceiling in the adjoining dining room, velus windows, plaster boarding, skimming throughout, new electrics, light fittings, paint, new solid oak skirtings, door and window furniture, flooring, range cooker, dishwasher, sink, taps, bar stools, composite island top, wood worktops, relocating plumbing and fitting new radiators, new stop tap, tiling and kitchen units. That was all labour and some bits of furniture too. The kitchen units were from DIY Kitchens and cost around £8.5k - we had to pay for the top delivery as access is awkward.

We could have done it for less, but decided not to skimp as we got to the end of the work as it would have been a false economy. HTH.

@ Pickpick101 - We had a handmade kitchen in our last house. The carcasses, the doors, everything were made to measure, and were not standard sizes. We were renovating an old barn that had beams in very inconvenient places so handmade didn't actually work out that much more expensive.

Okay so handmade = custom made . I did wonder as I see it used a bit on here.

If you can buy standard-sized units without the fancy bits it makes it way cheaper. EG avoid tray units, dog beds, wine units, 20cm pull out larders, etc etc.
I can see how bespoke joinery for an awkward-spaced room is competitive with bog-standard for the same room.

Surely you won't be fitting out the whole room with units on every wall?

We paid 22,500 five years ago from a local very well recommended kitchen shop. The units were considerably cheaper than John Lewis's cheapest range and about the same price as howdens.

The 22,500 included everything, fitting, neff appliances, everything except flooring.

£9k from eBay - ex display. The Miele appliances, Neff ovens, quooker, Siemen hobb were brand new and would have cost over £10k. The cabinets are from a range still available from a German supplier - we had to buy two to complete it and we're shocked by the price!

@Pickpick101

What is handmade ? I would think just about every kitchen will have most parts made in a factory or workshop , I can't imagine a joiner sat with hand tools making a door from a piece of timber. Is it marketing or refer to the bits put together in your home ?

This is what Handmade Kitchens of Christchurch say -

‘All of our cabinets are made from scratch especially for you in our own workshop, we do not sub contract.
Kitchens very rarely suit “standard” size units, and so ours are made to measure. This means that for most of our items, you can have any height, width and depth.
In addition, we can adjust our cabinets in lots of different ways to accommodate the problems often faced when trying to fit a kitchen. These include cut outs to enable a cabinet to fit around a pillar, for example. We can make a cabinet with one side deeper than the other to fit uneven walls. We can supply just the front frame and doors if you don’t need a whole cabinet, to hide a boiler for example. Our base cabinets have a 50mm recess at the back for pipework, etc, and our wall cupboards have a 20mm recess for scribing the sides. However, you can specify any size recess you need on any cabinet.‘

That makes sense , totally custom but not hand made as such .