New kitchen. - MERGED

dianeio

Bought my kitchen from Ikea in Scotland, used the delivery to Northern Ireland service.The kitchen worked out cheaper even with the cost of flights and delivery added on. However, you have to design the layout of your kitchen yourself, but you can download the programme from their website. Downside - customer service and delivery, wrong items delivered, items damaged etc.

Ikea is opening soon at Holywood Exchange - I think.
Good-luck

ginger_nuts

I bought my kitchen 6 years ago from cottage Kitchen in Lurgan .
At the time there where about £100 dearer than B&Q for supply and fitting .But all the units where made to measure and not just standard off the shelf .

Wee_Bargain_Hunter

Pattersons in Lifford are good - they'll travel too

BatCat

Hi,
We recently bought a new kitchen from B&Q (Holywood Exchange, kitchen designer Brian Noble) and I couldn't be more impressed with the quality of the units, the customer service and the worktops. I haggled with the designer to get the price down and we got a solid wood kitchen for under 2500£. The kitchen is lovely and I am overjoyed. However! we had a local handyman who we knew well come to fit it, we didn't sign up to their fitting service. He told us he's pals with the fitting guys in B&Q and they are completely overstretched.
We also got a quote from MFI (near Bangor). They are pure evil. Their kitchen was over priced. Their staff were not very nice (they eyed us up and told us what they thought we could afford) and very very pushy. When I called up to cancel the kitchen we had provisionally booked they put me straight through to their sales manager who said he would slash the price of the kitchen I had agreed on before with them by over 1500£ (this was the price the saleswoman had told me she had begged her manager for) and they refused to let me cancel until I came down and spoke with them. I've also had friends who had their kitchens fitted by MFI over a year ago and they still have issues with them.
Best of luck!
BatCat

jamminjamaica

i guess i wonr be going to MFI

declanh

BatCat wrote:

Hi,
they refused to let me cancel until I came down and spoke with them.
BatCat

Oh yeah, what a great tactic... forcing you to come down to cancel is hardly warming you up to seal the deal. Do they really think they can talk you round after you have already signed up ? You should tell them you have already paid for another kitchen - wonder would they still insist.

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jamminjamaica

some of these places have a real cheek. dont they?

BatCat

Yup, MFI weren't nice. I rang them back after discussing it with my husband (a very very short discussion) and the sales manager finally agreed to cancel the order (which was well within their customer charter period) and then hung up on me leaving me stuck in MFI telephone limbo.
B & Q designed a much better kitchen and got me a great deal on those pull and swing units. They even found a way to fit two of them under my sink area when MFI said it couldn't be done.
Good Luck!
BatCat

kestra

Anyone any recommendations on good quality cheap suppliers in NI? Thinking white units aka similar to MFIs space range.

Any ideas?

Js_Other_Half

Ikea ?:D

I know they're a popular choice in England, although they're a slightly different size to others. However, they're good quality and apparently easy to fit.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1020997&highlight=Ikea+kitchen

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1006399&highlight=Ikea+kitchen

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=998285&highlight=Ikea+kitchen

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=904309&highlight=Ikea+kitchen

hth