Are ikea kitchens really so much cheaper?

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Their online planner thing is not working for me at the mo and it’s such a schlep to get there with 3 kids, so I just need to know if it’s actually going to be worth the trip. 3 people I know rate their ikea kitchens but how much are we looking at for similar to below from ikea?

This is £22k at magnet 🫣 with 50% off cabinets and 20% off something else. The same is £20k at benchmarx. All my research has people saying ‘our kitchen was 8k’ etc so no idea where we’re going wrong!! Nothing fancy - lower range cabinets and laminate counters etc.

Just had an updated estimate for our extension and, my god. So trying to cut costs as much as poss!

I got ikea fitters and although they were a bit more expensive their experience of fitting ikea kitchens made it so much easier. And when their was a problem with needing a couple of pieces replaced due to damage he just dealt with that directly without me being involved.

See there’s absolutely no chance you’d walk into that and think, ew what a cheap kitchen! In fact all the ikea kitchens I’ve seen have been enviable. Have booked an appt so we’ll see.

Can I ask which worktops you have? Ours are now needing oiling and I don't know if I need to sand them down first or just apply the oil?

@mightymam we have the Karlby ones. Didn’t sand, just applied a few coats of hard wax oil.