Kitchen remodel

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My kitchen needs updating as it appearance in long in the tooth - it’s 18 yrs old, faux beech, silver handles, dark black surface tops.

It’s a small/medium size kitchen.

How much to budget to bring up to date? Which companies to consider, which to avoid? Magnet/Howdens/Wren etc.

But chiefly how much money? Basic up to date style.

Any advice please? Thank you so much!

I may not be as experienced as most, but I have learned that whenever I have calculated a curtain amount of money for a project for my old home, I always need a lot more because there are always some kind of complications that pop. Usually susper important and have to be done (like rewiring or replacing something I originally planned to keep.) The range and price can very quite a bit all depending what you want to do.

Thanks@On1y!
I need to change kitchen to realise good price for intentional move. Hoping it can be done for 4K approx including sink/new surfaces.
Oven is virtually new, thankfully.
I don’t have skills to install it myself…,

4k...??!!!!

Dream on 😂

Just had a quote to change the doors and drawer fronts on my kitchen which has 22 doors and 14 drawer fronts. Changing those and nothing else - £6k.

Labour is expensive.

Depending on size you could possibly get something for 4k just the products.

Not long done my MILs one for 3.5k ish, small/med size. Flat-packed, laminate worktops

with labour as well absolutely not, that’s where a lot of the cost will be unfortunately

I work for one of the companies you mentioned and have worked for 4 others in the past :)

I’m obviously out of touch with costs @FlossOnTheMill but low income. Guess I will have to try and save more, if I ever can catch up financially. So, yeah, I’ll dream on…

We moved and inherited a beech kitchen with awful black laminate type work surfaces. The kitchen itself was in good condition. I found someone taking out a kitchen with solid pine doors. I picked up a huge amount of doors and drawer fronts in various sizes. Cost £0.

The carcasses were good, and the work tops fine. So we replaced the doors and I painted them. Changed the handles.

I spent weeks watching you tube videos of people using vinyl wrap on their work surfaces. Initially I thought this was crazy, and surely it would mark, tear, bubble and peel. Sick of the site of dull black work surface, and having spent far too much money on the rest of the house, I decided to try it. Its fiddly, but with a steel rule, a good craft knife and a lot of patience it looks brilliant. Very convincing.

Now my dull dark dated kitchen is bright, clean, new looking and.....we are moving. People have commented on the kitchen, they love it.

Cost.....lots of my own time and a few hundred quid on tiles, paint, vinyl wrap, new handles, coving etc.

You can pay within a very wide range for a new kitchen. About 2 years ago my son whose kitchen is small and who was on a very tight budget installed a new kitchen and I believe it cost about £8K. We had ours done at the same time and were much less concerned about what we spent, our kitchen is large and came in at about £46K. Both prices include appliances and fitting.

Are the carcasses good?
are you any good with diy?
if so you can source new doors only which will dramatically reduce costs.

4k is a fairly low budget. You’d be better off looking at high quality second hand or saving a bit more.

have a look on diy kitchens they have a huge range and very fairly priced.
I have some of their wood effect laminate in our utility it looks REALLY good. Everyone thinks it’s wood.

Do you mean that you're only doing it up to move? If so I just wouldn't bother, buyers will look at it and then think what they'd put in instead.

If only doing to move, it’s not worth it. The time and hassle you won’t gain back.

If the kitchen is ok, try and just change the external parts.

You can re paint the cabinet doors and drawers using little green inteligent paint. It now included undercoat so less needed. - maybe £200-300 in 2-3 pots decent paint and brushes/ light sandpaper etc

buy new handles -£50

New worktop possibly - if just replacing laminate for a new laminate then not too costly. Will need to pay someone likely to fit. - £300-800 depending on size and labour. IKEA is good place for worktops

You could also get new sink if needed for -£100

For less than £2000 you could transform, maybe less than £1000 if it’s small and you know someone who can help with worktop

Personally if you’re moving I wouldn’t bother to change it. The new owners will very likely have a different style to you and would want to replace it anyway!

To be honest, I'd just leave it as it is. Ours was in what I thought was good order as only done three years before, but turned out purchaser didn't like our choice, she painted over the tiles, re-did laminate, changed all fronts. Whatever you would have spent on it is in the pot then to accommodate any reductions.

You could probably get an IKEA basic update kitchen flat pack for a round 4k if there aren't too many units, not including oven,.sink , dishwasher etc.

You'd have to rip.the old one out and install yourself which would include the cost of skip hire (around £400 for a medium sized skip for two weeks).

Any of the companies you memtion will charge a premium for the pleasure; but you do have thr option of paying over time whi h might work better? I have to say we.had a Wren kitchen about 6 years ago and it's already falling apart :/ It cost us 12k for a medium u shaped kitchen.

Thanks everyone for your help

We thought this but unfortunately they found damp so it needs to be gutted and replastered adding a couple of grand as stuff we thought could stay can't , now heading for 10k. Howdens is trade only so we ordered and paid for it and it has to be confirmed by our carpenter that it's a trade sale.