New kitchen - cost

[BananasHouse]

Finally in a position to get on the property ladder, but the market seems to have slowed down. However a house has come up that I think has some potential. It is near the top of my budget, and would need a new kitchen. I'm trying to work out if I could afford this within the first few years of living there. Would anyone be able to shed some light on costs?

This would include knocking down a wall to join two rooms together, as well as kitchen cabinets, island, flooring etc.

Just any idea of pricing would be interesting. Have emailed for some brochures but as I don't have the house yet, it's hard to go into a store and ask for a quote.

I paid 17k for a whole new kitchen including flooring 5 years ago. It’s a large room. You can pay less or a lot more. Depends on spec etc. IME the price of a lot of Services have gone up since the cossie livs crisis. I’m not sure if builders prices have increased.

How long is a piece of string?
The more you do and the fancier units you choose the higher the price. You could probably do it for £10-15k but there would be huge compromises. Or you could spend £100k and get the best of everything.
At the cheaper end you would probably spend £8k ish getting the wall knocked down a steel put in if it’s a supporting wall, you’d need building control and there would also be electrics and plumbing to do. If it wasn’t a supporting wall it would probably be half the price.
Flooring would be vinyl from a roll and you’d be looking at budget kitchens. Limited choice of colours for doors, fewer fancy units, basic appliances and laminate work top. Probably about £4k for a decent amount of units. Then there would be fitting. Light fittings etc you’d be choosing from the screw fix catalogue rather than Laura Ashley.
Ive just got a quote for a 3m run of kitchen (2 base units, 2 wall units, sink, taps, worktop, kick boards and top trim) for £1300 not the base range the next one up.

Gower rapide is worth looking at as they are good quality but cheap.

Don't know about the knocking down a wall bit, but the rest could be done for anything from 10k up to 40k (or more!) depending on what you choose!

I had a new kitchen fitted two years ago and bought all my units from DIYKitchens. They don’t design (which is no loss as ‘designers’ from places like Howdens and Magnet are utterly useless) and you have to order everything individually. But if you can do it, it’ll cost you around a third of the price of even the cheapest high street equivalent. Assuming the size of your kitchen is average, you could do everything for around £15k

Well we would do that for about £5k but then we are old school (boomers) and do it all (and have done many times over) ourselves.