New kitchen price shock

I think £23k for a kitchen makeover including building work and appliances is pretty good. With extras it will probably end up about £5k more.
It’s not just a couple of cupboards is it!.

HollyGran63- its a tap that gives instant hot water (up to boiling i think)? Theres an advert on tv for them at moment- i don't think i would want one to be honest.I love a normal kettle.?

* I love a normal Electric kettle.(not a stove top one)

Lido-???

Sounds like you have had Fearne from Felphersham kitchens in giving you a highly persuasive quote! (Sorry - that was a reference only relevant to those of us who listen to The Archers - price actually sounds OK to me, though I wouldn't bother with that fancy tap)

I remember, some years ago, my brother getting a quote for a new kitchen and it was more than my little house in London cost. I guess it's inflation, and now the added cost of materials soaring....

Hope they do a great job. Enjoy once it's done. Kitchens are so important.

Lido

We've just refurbished our kitchen. We have new tiles and flooring and have painted everything. We did all the work ourselves for just under £600. I'm now wondering what I can spend the £22.400 we've saved on .

I hope you love your new kitchen and if you want to treat yourself why not.

Everything seems so expensive now. I was shocked by the price of oat milk yesterday (up 40p in a month) so a kitchen quote would have me staggering.

Lido I am hoping to repaint our Kitchen Cupboard and Drawer fronts. What paint did you use please? Seems so much choice I don't know where to start!

We had our kitchen done last year and it cost us around £40000. We did have walls knocked down and utility and boiler moved with all new appliances and hand painted units. It looks great though and was a once in a lifetime event which we won’t be repeating. The 7 weeks I had to use the dining room as a makeshift kitchen was 7 weeks too long . Love it now though and have forgotten all the bad bits(well almost)
Enjoy your new kitchen

Love the Quaker tap too- definitely recommended

Sorry Quooker tap

With all the other work rather than just fitting units sounds okay. Had mine done last year, no quartz though as previous experence of smashing it with a misaimed meat cleaver put me off. Also tge tap, takes 10 years to recoup cost, but then you do have the convenience of not having to fill a kettle. Go for it, you obviously want it, long time dead, as my dear old mother used to say.

3 years ago we had our kitchen gutted, new lighting, new plastered ceiling, all new appliances, Amtico flooring, new electric unit, Corian surfaces, decorating, all new units new sink and tap, cost £23k ,. It is a kitchen diner so a large space.
Nothing really extravagant so that was enough to spend but I love it!

Had my smallish 10’x12’. kitchen replaced ….same layout …. NEF appliances…. NO quartz worktops just usual…..gloss finish , with handles….for just over £11,000 with appliances including electric oven …gas hob…. small American double doored fridge freezer… your kitchen can only be gold plated or massive !!

My kitchen hasn’t been changed for fifty years and it suits me. Thankfully no high wall cupboards as I would no be able to reach them now. Had a few new appliances as I became more disabled. Being alone now manage with mini oven, boiling ring and microwave.
Many years ago when living on a campsite in Seville,Spain my son wrote to say they were having a new kitchen. I had two gas burners and mini oven on a stand in the awning so replied I would move it to the other of the awning. They were picking the oranges so I got out my pressure cooker and made marmalade there on the spot.
So many nowadays have new kitchens but cannot cook or have takeaways.
I spent my money on travelling.

catladyuk

Joseanne

I'm having a modern version of that Urmstongran.

i love that unit that you pictured earlier joseanne, do you mind me asking where it is from?

I have sent you a pm.

Buying a new build house meant our choices were very limited. The kitchen included ‘ luxury ‘ quartz worktop. They look good, but they can stain, and the edges can be easily chipped. I’m very careful, but I cringe when I hear other people hitting the edges as they take dishes etc in and out of cupboards and the dishwasher. Also, the cut edge joins are filled with tile cement, which dries and crumbles. My last kitchen laminate worktops were joined using specialist equipment, and were almost invisible, and were as good as new eighteen years later.

We remodeled a few years ago at quite an exoense. But once we did it, paid in full, we've not missed the $$ and enjoyed the kitchen.
Only regret was getting dark cabinets with a nice line in the panel. They show smudges and dust much worse than (now out of fashion) light oak did. Than little ridge is hard to clean.
Kitchen remodel should add to house value.
If you can get it without debt, You deserve it!

It sounds really lovely and modern...enjoy . May we please have a photo or two when it is all finished

It sounds really lovely and modern...enjoy. May we please have a photo or two when it is all finished

I remember this drop down leaf was where I regularly banged my head as a child - right at the corner!!

After 30 years living in the same house built in 1890. We decided to invest in a new kitchen. It included walls knocking down, chimney breast removal, flooring raised, new windows. 2 weeks later a new wren kitchen fitted. Good luck with living through the mess & eating dust for about a month it will all be worth it in the end. We love our kitchen & we were lucky enough to have it all done the week before covid lockdown.

Most of the cost is labour rather than materials. I created our new kitchen, with just the wiring and new ceiling done by others.

I really enjoyed ripping the old one out, knocking down the wall and old ceiling, extending the plumbing and replacing a door with a window. I got exactly what I wanted, including made to measure, solid oak worktops and good appliances. It cost just 5k!

We did have a good temporary kitchen in the conservatory, though - along with disruption, dust, mess, noise etc. for six months. My friend bought an ex-display luxury kitchen for 3k and installed it herself, too, inspired by my efforts.

Does that include fitting ? I had a new kitchen, last year. Not an expensive one but on top of paying for the kitchen , had to pay fitting , which was around same price. Then had to pay for wall tiles & floor tiles, then electrics, all this on top of kitchen cost ! So remember after cost of kitchen & fitting, add about at least £4K -£5K, doesn't include extras, also tile fitting etc

Beautful I enjoyed the fitting, tiling and floor laying too. I won't touch electrics and find ceilings difficult - but really the rest are not very skilled jobs, not when you have attention to detail (I like things millimetre perfect) and take your time. I'm always disappointed by the slapdash work of 'professionals'.