How much will a new kitchen cost, fitting included.

[Hulababy]

Just trying to get a very approximate idea of costs here, including fitting - so we can do some budgeting ready.

We have bought a house and I want/need a new kitchen. I do know what I want kind of, but wondered if anyone has had a new kitchen recently and it they have some rough costs that can share - to give us an idea.

Kitchen isn't huge: see here It should give you an idea of how much we want.

We are getting separate fridge/freezer and cooker I think, as I have already seen what I want. And don't need washer or dryer in either as they go elsewhere.

We will need a dishwasher though - probably a slim line one I think - the plumbed space for one is only slim line at moment. And we are used to slim line and it is plenty big enough.

I think I want a high gloss type of kitchen units, rather than a wooden look. Quite a modern, clean feel - ina cream or buttermilk colour (think cream Smeg fridge).

Would like a light wood worktop (maple/beech). Doesn't have to be real solid wood though - happy with the effect

No wall tiles - want a glass splash back behind cooker instead.

Not decided on flooring yet but will probably just go for laminate stuff. It's practical for what we want and not expensive.

So, any ideas of how much I should expect to pay?

Hoping to go to house this weekend for a second look, and to get more accurate measurements.

I'm getting a kitchne out in next week Hullababy same size as yours,including oven, hob and flooring but not fridge it's going to be £3200. I saw an advert in a local paper for guy who fits bathrooms and kitchens, he's getting me the kitchen, cream shaker style with wooden worktops, and he showed me three kitchend he'd recently fitted and I spoke to epople he'd fitted them for

CountessDracula, where did you get it from? I was quoted that just for the granite, would be interested to know about the company.

it was just under 10K but that was 2 years ago

if you contact them CAT me first as we would both get £500 if you went ahead!!

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ours included moving a radiator but no walling knochking

glass roof

i just thought hand that rocks the cradle

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shit

have you seen my lovely tambas, coddy???

Re MFI - work colleague recently got a MFI kitchen and had lots of problems with units being delivered damaged etc. Delivery company said that they came from the warehouse like that.

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well sort of...they cupboads on the bench! so you don't have to get stuff out, just open them and slide it forward

FWIW, I'm not too shocked at Fio's price
We got a new kitchen last year, bespoke/hand made by a local furniture maker and then used various other companies for the extras and arranged the work ourselves which saved us £15K The other kitchen companies that quoted for the work as whole project averaged at £30K - and our kitchen isn't huge

I am very shocked!

for 30k we:

knocked out a wall
hollowed out a chimney breast
had conservatory removed
had old kitchen removed
200 year old oak floors through whole ground floor of house (70 sq m)
new rads (those victoriany looking ones) thorough whole g/f of house
New kitchen incl plumbing, electrics, low voltage lighting etc
ss range cooker & ss hood
granite tops
re carpeted 2 lots of stairs and whole first floor
knocked small loo and bathroom into one + had same oak flooring put in
had whole house painted from top to bottom + the front.

So 42k just on the kitchen seems a LOT

(and kitchen was bespoke)

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well I couldn't get any off the shelf stuff that fitted!

ff I love the pink agas. Don't much like cooking in/on them, but one day I am going to have a pink aga that I can sit and smile at .

I had a door knocked out and moved, replastered etc. flooring lowered and levelled, watersource re-routed (mega job) real wood flooring laid, solid beech worktop, new boiler put in and all the plumbing work, all units (about 6 double base units and two tall ones for oven housing and integ. fridge freezer, loads and loads of wall units, all applainces plumbed in, whole room rewired with loads of plugs, tiling, new fan oven, loverly s/s chimney hood and one of those nice frameless large ceramic hobs, all lighting -
£25k
A lot of money sure, but house value has gone up 50k and made it more saleable than before.
I agree that 40k sounds way OTT but hard to judge without seeing it so not really worth getting wound up about.
Get loads of quotes, look at buying as much of the appliances yourself to shop around and avoid the wrkmen taking the usual cut and have fun planning.

We have all seen those property developer tv programmes -e very time the expert goes on about overspending on the kitchen and that you can achieve the same expensice and durable look for a fraction of the cost - and yet for some it seems to be a status symbol and get carried away by the "bespoke" aspect of it all.
You can have the most expensive kitchen put in to a suitably posh home in the hope that it will be an asset when reselling only to find that your exquisite hand carved units have become a little "twee" and that the "classic" look is no longer in vogue. One minute it is all tiling, then it is glass splashbacks, one minute it is solid wood then corean worktops. Fitted steel units, stand alone rustic wood then next, loads of wall units and then open shelving blah blah blah.
Not worth spending loads and loads of money on a kitchen unless it is burning a hole in your pants and you can?t find the link to the bunny site

I was advised to get decent cupboard innards and worktop and not worry about the fronts, just get what I liked, as the next people would prob want to change them anyway

Something I have noticed it's that lots of kitchen companies call their products 'bespoke' just because they can produce cupboards with diferences of 10cm in lenght, which in my opinion is not really 'bespoke' but an advertising trick. Bespoke kitchens are made to fit perfectly the room even if that means building units that don't fit the 10cm unit use.

Talking about pseudo "bespoke" kitchens, there is a company doing lots of telemarketing at the moment that is called Space Kitchens, careful if you see them. They rang us and we accepted to see them as they claimed to be bespoke (we have the most ackward shape in the kitchen so standard units don't fit), just to find out they not only weren't spoke but they quoted a kitchen for 26k (just the cupboards and granite worktop) and told us that if we ordered immediatly we could get it for 14k. I'm sure that many should have fall into the trick but I'm convinced the kitchen was worth less than 6k as it was exactly the same quality as B&Q.

If you are not sure about a comapny, google its name + word "scam". That's how we found they were specialised in selling average kitchens for the price of a real bespoke.

Ours has worked out at:

£9k (ish!) to prepare the room (dingy horrible 3 room cellar, needed assorted brickwork bashing out, walls tanking, new ceiling, floor, electrics & plumbing, new door - you name it!)

£2.5k for kitchen inc. hob, double oven - off the peg from Howdens + £700ish for fitting it

Not a huge amount but it's only a 3 bed Victorian terrace - according to our builder there's no point spending much more than 10% of house value. (So the £45k for a £500k house sounds quite sensible to me...)

I would recommend MFI, went there yesterday and they've really gone upmarket. Some really beautiful kitchens and they're doing bathrooms too. Apparently the shabby/bits missing title now belongs to Ikea and MFI are much improved.