New kitchen - no layout changes

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I'm planning to sell my house shortly, but as you can see from my pictures, the kitchen is not the kind one can just spruce up! I've put off off having it done for a number of years as I was hoping funds might allow for some sort of extension, or other way of making it bigger. So, I just want to get it done now, like for like swap. The house is the kind a young couple or couple with a baby would buy, so the kitchen size is okay. We are a family of 5 with a sometimes 6th member! Hence why I now need to sell.
So, I've used diy kitchens for the bulk of the stuff and the total cost with new sink, hob, extractor, sideboards, plinths, door handles, tiles (not planning to replace flooring hopefully) and obviously the units themselves comes to £1700. I've had my first quote to fit, and the total was £2400, although £760 is the cost of taking old kitchen and tiles out and disposing of them. I think we will do that work ourselves.
I have got 3 other fitters who have agreed to quote. I think the cost seems reasonable (other than the removal costs!) and wanted to run it past others to see what you think. Bear in mind we are in a cheap town in NW England!

It isn't wasted space currently as it is used as a cupboard. I still have everything in there. All the cleaning stuff, cat food, even the iron lives in there! I have big boxes that pull out.

If it’s all like for like, could you install yourself?
We installed ikea kitchen ourselves. It was fairly easy. The kitchen was about £1200 and they wanted like £3000 to fit, so we just did it all ourselves and paid plumber to do that final bit.

I would also add a washer dryer combo built in. It will be smarter not sticking out, and give anyone the option of using as a dryer, as presumably there’s no space to have separate really.
Then means cupboard under sink will open properly

Take down the the two cupboards over the stove - put warm wood open shelving. Can be inexpensive woods by the way with a good stain.

Same wood - shelving up the wall over the dryer, artful distance apart. "Naice" display or a unform set of visable storage baskets/boxes.

Empty cupboard with plastic containers on lower run near stove - put books/crockery in there.

New doors on lower cabinet, new uniform pulls, paint the whole place, dark on the lower run and fresh warm white on the rest including tiles.

Clean the windows, scrub so everything sparkles.

Inexpensive and quick.

Please stop giving advice on what else to do! I just want pricing advice.... arghhhhhhh! I'm doing it the way I've planned!! Is my quote reasonable for the size of kitchen?!!!

As a minimum you may be able to take the old units out one at a time and slide new ones in - they have adjustable legs so you can line them up. You just have to prop the worktop up. Or take the worktop off carefully and re fit with the sink and hob still in. Maybe change for an oblong sink whilst you're at it, but that can reuse most of the plumbing.
Even if you did nothing but replace with plain white/cashmere units it would look x 100 better. I can't see how that's more than 2 days work for a fitter.

Seems a reasonable quote if including removing a disposing of old kitchen.

Have to agree with others though, waste of money to sell. Unless you're replacing to floor too and having a good kitchen put in, it isn't going to add £15k to the value. You're putting a cheap kitchen in which buyer will still look at and in their head be thinking that the kitchen needs redoing.

The main thing you need to do is de clutter, take the wire things off radiators, all the stuff off front of fridge and clear the sides.

That kitchen's OK, it just needs a good tidy. You certainly won't gain anything by putting a new cheap one in.

This is the kitchen to go in, I don't think it looks cheap. It is the same as I chose in Howdens, for 5k (not fitted).
But still, please stop with the kitchen advice! Just answer my question .

DIY Kitchens are good. Quality is high for the price and the units come ready assembled so very solid and installation is pretty quick if, as in your case it's a straight swap out with no building work or moving of plumbing etc.

Would you fit yourself or get a fitter in? They are in high demand right now so could be pricey plus a long wait to get someone good.

Sorry just re-read the OP and see you will be using a fitter.

The DIY Kitchen we did was a small L shaped kitchen in our annexe. Units were about £1700 excluding worktop which we bought separately from Howdens. The fitter charged us £1500 which included fitting all units, plumbing in the sink, fitting the worktop and tiling the backsplash.

Other costs were appliances (hob, oven and fridge/freezer which we sourced ourselves and the cost of an electrician to wire up the oven and hob.

Agree that you can easily do the demolition of the old kitchen yourselves, just hire a skip and get smashing!

The kitchen will look cheap if you don't replace the flooring and get nice new appliances to go in it. I'm assuming in your budget you won't be having the nice work tops either.

The appliances other than fridge are new. Other than the oven, they won't be staying behind, we have another flat with white appliances in too, so we can swap if we think it looks better. Again, the floor will get done if it needs it, one can only decide that after the units are in. I'm doing it on a budget, but it won't be shit! Trust me

That's the look I am aiming for. Shaker with wooden worktop, metro tiles probably blue/green depending on colour of kitchen. If I go for the blue or green kitchen then it will be white metro tiles. It will be fine, it will look right with the rest of the house.

I'v seen the Stanbury kitchen loads of times, very popular.

What if the buyers want to remodel the downstairs in some way, extend the kitchen? Then the new kitchen becomes a negative, they would rather not pay a premium for it.

Not a problem to remodel. The kitchen will be new enough that they can buy more units, and the units themselves can be reused. If we can't move for whatever reason (you don't know if you will be able to get a mortgage for the next step up) then that is what we will do.

As I said previously, I'll be leaving behind the details on where things were from. I keep everything so things can be fixed etc. So I've got paint and wallpaper for every room, a folder of manuals for items, lists of where things where bought from and when etc with receipt attached. I'm very organised. I hope my buyers will be happy with the info I'll leave for them. I've even written about things like the fireplace which can be easily removed, and moved to the other chimney breast in the room if they wish to switch which side is the living room and which side is the dining room. I've put notes about this houses little idiosyncrasies! I don't think the house having a new kitchen is going to put buyers off, not from watching the market on my road (main road, so lots of sales of similar houses to compare. I've done my research, I know what I'm doing!

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Please stop giving advice on what else to do! I just want pricing advice.... arghhhhhhh! I'm doing it the way I've planned!! Is my quote reasonable for the size of kitchen?!!!

Mis read and got carried away - sorry!

The kitchen you're planning on putting in is really nice. You don't want a major room like the kitchen letting the house down when you go to sell. Good luck.

We're currently putting those tiles in your photos in our downstairs bathroom. They look lovely in the duck egg. They're currently 20% off but we got them for £5 a box in the clearance at our local b&q so might be worth a look if you're wanting to save a few quid.

We have also used DIY kitchens this year. The kitchen itself is nice but the service was appalling. If you have it delivered, check it very carefully as their delivery drivers walk all over the boxes so things get damaged and they take forever to replace items. You should be fine though if it's a small kitchen with standards units - I think ours was bad due to the amount of items we ordered. The price you quoted for the kitchen sounds good but personally I wouldn't pay the fitting quote you've had. We ended up fitting it ourselves due to the delays DIY kitchens caused and not being able to get a fitter to work around the timescales. It was really easy to fit as the units are solid not flat packed so you can just chuck them into place, whack the legs on and get it levelled up and sealed in.

I think that quote sounds reasonable. The cost of the carcasses is modest. You'll get a lot of kitchen for your money.

The only negative is it's a bit gutting if the new owners start by ripping out the new kitchen to knock through to the dining room. It's happened to us. I would suggest you just don't invest much blood sweat and tears in it. Don't tile unless it's the easiest way to make good.

I would go with DIY over IKEA in a narrow kitchen, hands down, because the units are a bit narrower which makes the kitchen look a little bigger. It doesn't matter in a big kitchen, but I think it makes a difference in a small one.

I always advise not to change the kitchen for a sale... but I think in this instance it's worth it. That's a good quote. Will you have to pay extra for the tiling though? I'd work out if you're keeping the floor before choosing the kitchen and tiles though, as you might want to base your colour choice on something that will complement it and not make it look dingy. I assume the grout is coloured?

Any chance you can rig up some electric to your shed for now, so you don't have to keep hauling your dryer back and forth?

I think you're sensible and your proposed DIY kitchen looks really nice. Who cares if the new owners rip it out, doesn't matter as long as you achieve as near to £175k as possible by spending, I think around £4k total incl. fitting?
Good luck OP