New kitchen - how much would you expect to pay?

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Hoping to have a new kitchen later in the year, just wondering roughly how much it's going to cost. Thinking approx 11 units, tiling and flooring done for us, nothing integrated so we will pay separately for washing machine, cooker and fridge freezer.

Roughly how much would you estimate?

£15,000 minimum. Fitting is expensive!

It entirely depends on the manufacturer and materials you choose, and who you choose to fit it. You could have a mid-range IKEA kitchen with compact laminate worktops and upstands and then simple splash-back tiles fitted by a local handyman for about £5,000 all in. If you choose a boutique supplier and go for e.g. solid wood cabinets and granite worktops and have it supplier fitted, it will be much more expensive.

What’s your budget and what style are you after? DIY Kitchens seem to get consistently decent reviews, and a couple of friends have really rated them.

Thanks for your replies, a real difference in costs though.

We haven't got around to looking or speaking to anyone yet. Having the bathroom done next week, so kitchen will be the next thing. We did in the same order last time and bathroom was £2k and kitchen £4k (how times have changed).

Bathroom coming in around £6,900 to include absolutely everything including accessories. Doubling that up would make it £14k - ideally we'd want to pay £10k, but that's why I'm asking as I know we have to pay the going price.

We did my mums large kitchen and utility for £10k using DIY kitchens but we didn’t tile the walls

You can get an integral splash back and upstand with the work surface. Don’t tile.

The work tops make a huge price difference. Templated stone or “corian” ones cost a lot. The other thing is who is fitting it? Who is getting in a plumber and electrician and floor layer? My DD went to John Lewis for a complete service. She’s no time to project manage but this costs more.

Also consider value of house. Don’t over or under spend. Is it a laminate or stone worktop property? Are you staying or selling? Does it matter to you what you live with every day? “Don’r spoil the ship for a ha’peth of tar “ is worth remembering.

Depends but maybe£20k? I have a small kitchen and paid £7k ish I stopped counting

The most expensive aspects of kitchens tend to be the tiling (hence why bathrooms tend to be pricey), the worktops, and the appliances: you’ll bring the price down hugely if you’re keeping your existing freestanding appliances, don’t want stone or ceramic etc worktops, and opt for just upstands and a hob splashback rather than loads of tiling.

Our Ikea kitchen (pictured) was about £5,500 including tiles, all the integrated appliances, and fitting a couple of years ago (London.) It’s small, and we don’t anticipate being here forever so didn’t go for anything fancy, but I’ve always been pretty impressed with the quality. We found a father-son handyman team through recommendations on the Next Door app who did weekend work in the side of their day jobs and they were brilliant: a much better experience than I’ve had previously with package supplier-fitted teams.

If you’re up for a bit of fun with a sledgehammer and a chisel, you can save a fortune by taking out your old kitchen and disposing of it yourself: we were quoted £1,500 for that alone by Ikea. We invited a couple of friends over, ordered a load of beer and pizza, got it done ourselves over a long Saturday and drove it to the tip.

We've just had a few prices for a galley kitchen, inc appliances and worktop we're looking at about £15000 plus fitting. I reckon all in will be about 25k if we include the floor

I had w cheap kitchen fitted by a relative ten years ago. It was about 15k.

I just shared our kitchen on another thread so may as well on this one…

Units - 5.5k handmade kitchens of christchurch solid wood.
quartz - just under 3k which is top, backsplash and a few off cuts as shelves for in the cupboards (for microwave and dirty stuff like open vinegar bottles etc.)
Floor - karndean art select - 6k
Appliances - 3k (second hand refurbished and returns for carcass damage. Ie. Little dinks but they are integrated so who cares).
Sink - £200 plain stainless steel basic brand
Tap - Rowe & Perkins c. £350
Handles - Corston Architectural c. £500
Plastering, electrics, plumbing and fitting probably c. 2k.

DIY kitchen or Ikea is likely your best option on a budget. We worked on an average of £160 per cabinet plus 1k to cover things like end panels etc. saved a fortune as we assembled all the cabinets ourselves and just paid for one day of the kitchen fitter £300 to cut the end panels etc, a day of the electrician £350 and 2hrs plumbing the gas work £180. In the end for a 25 unit kitchen we were just over 10k including granite worktops. We don't pay a tiler invested in a good saw years ago it's so easy to do it yourself and means a bathroom is only around 3k

We got ours done for £10k all in. That included taking down an internal wall, complete re plastering, new flooring and all electrical work etc.

We bought units from DIY kitchens, appliances from AO, and then found a local kitchen fitter to do all the work.

My kitchen was £9k from howdens, tiles, £160, flooring £1300, paint £50. Paid £1700 to various contractors to move gas and plugs, fit flooring, paint and tile but my kind dad fitted the kitchen which is solid wood.

I'd definitely say it's £10k as a minimum even for cheap units and Lino these days