Wickes Heritage Grey or Magnet Charleston Bone kitchen?

[Tigerlion]

Saw and loved both kitchens today. Any views/ criticisms/ praises on either to help me decide which one?

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charleston bone looks lovely, will try to find the other.

The guy who fitted our Wickes kitchen said it was far better built than any of the others he had fitted in a similar price range.
He said something about the backs of the units being very solid which he normally only sees in much higher end kitchens.
Wickes also seem to have lots of sales where they do 50% off, so if you get them in the sale they are very good value.

wickes have a 50% sale until the 4th June. Get in there quick, girl.

There's a thread on here about Magnet kitchens IIRC, they are not thought of very highly. Do a search.

Didn't like the Charleston Bone kitchen. Saw it in the showroom and just didn't like the feel of the doors. Felt very plastic i.e not solid and heavy. The range in the catalogue was very nice which made me go for this but changed my mind when we saw it in the showroom. What a shame.

We have the Heritage Grey one and I love it.If you time it right,you can get another 15% off the sale price and big discounts on appliances too.

Our fitter normally fits Magnet,but was very impressed with the quality of the Wickes kitchen we had.

I have just had Heritage Grey fitted and it looks fabulous. But get it from Benchmarx (who supply Wickes)- much cheaper, even after Wickes's 50% plus 15% off offer, and exactly the same product! They claim to be trade-only but I guess they've relaxed this now after the recession.

Let us know!

Is this the heritage grey? Love this one.

Thanks for the tip about benchmarx hobnob.

Yes - that's it. Glad you lke it.

Love love the Wickes one. Now I want it!

Interested in what you are saying about the prices for the Heritage grey as looking at ordering it. How much cheaper are this company?

Tigerlion, definitley the Heritage - are you going for the wooden worktops? We are just debating them at the moment!

Hello ebaxter. The difference was significant. Here are some examples. The Wickes prices are after the lots-off offer. You have to add VAT to the B'marx price.

Wickes pull out larder £468.00
B'marx same thing £311.46+vat

W. oven housing £117.00
B. £57.54+vat
W. bridging unit £163.00
B. £93.06+vat

You get the picture.

I have an oak butcher's block worktop with mine (from Barncrest, as recommended by fellow-MNetter)and I'm delighted with it.

Good luck with yours.

Thanks, just did a quick comparison. They've got an extra 15% off at the moment as well so they are still more expensive but worth checking on their appliances as well as we've had 25% off plus a further 15% off and we can't get appliances anywhere near the prices they are offering so worth weighing up cost overall if you want a one stop shop.

I'm tring to decide between the heritage grey with wooden worktops or the melbourne (the oak version) with granite. believe it or not there is nothing in the cost as I've found the grantie from a local company at brilliant prices.

Anyone who has seen both of these what do you think? I love the grey, husband not so sure the wood is all that durable!

Thanks

Hello ebaxter again. The prices I'm quoting already account for the extra 15% off.

It's worth bearing in mind that the appliances they offer aren't ever such good quality, though. We got our appliances from a brilliant place called Roy Waring South, which sells stuff which has been rejected by the likes of John Lewis simply because the boxes are tatty. We got eg Neff ovens in perfect condition, with 2 years' guarantee, for hundreds of pounds cheaper. Worth having a look.

I don't work for any of these places, by the way! I just spent so long researching all of this that now I feel evangelical about the things I've discovered. I got many of the tips from MN in the first place (eg, Benchmarx and Barncrest)!

I had a Charleston Bone kitchen in my last house and it was lovely, I especially liked the fact that they do tall wall cupboards. It was a Georgian listed house and a squat modern kitchen would have looked all wrong. I also like the fact that it has a framed door.

Having said that it wasn't at all cheap. In my new house I have a hand built kitchen which is handpainted (in Farrow & Ball oil eggshell) and all in it probably works out not terribly much more expensive. Have you thought about getting something hand built priced?

That Benchmarx one looks nice and again has a framed door. It looks v similar to a Harvey Jones kitchen.