How much would an average new kitchen be?

Manchester_Lucy

Hi,

We are in the process of buying our firts house and I am wondering whether to get a new kitchen done sooner rather than later.

The kitchen at the moment in the house is a gally kitchen leading onto the dining area having wall and base units down each side. It currently has a small fidge, oven & hob and a washing machine.

The house also havs a utility room just off the kitchen which ideally I would like to house the washing machine instead of it being part of the kitchen.

We would require all the usual appliances (oven & hob, tall fridge freezer and possibly a dishwasher).

How much roughly would I be looking to pay for this? I like modern, clean kitchens but don't want to pay a huge amount.

The walls are probably about 4m one side and 3.5m the other due to door at one end.

I'm not looking for a quote obviously just a rough idea to see if maybe we can stretch to this before we get everything moved in! _pale_

dougk_2

It always costs more than you think unless you are DIY'ing it. We had three quotes when we moved into the house for our kitchen - its only small (8ft by 4ft) and they ranged between £3.8k and £9k for nothing fancy!

Needless to say we haven't bothered yet and I'll be doing it myself (except for the removal / fitting of the gas appliances).

Manchester_Lucy

Thanks for that. To be honest I think I'd ideally like to be paying for about £4,000 for a half decent kitchen incl install.

We have used up our savings for a deposit and any other money is going on legal fees etc. Would you suggest borrowing again on new mortgage or taking out a separate loan or doing something I hate and getting in using kitchen company's finance?

dovemeister

i've recently done my galley kitchen which is 4m x 2m, 1 side a full uniterupted 4m length, the other broken up by a door - got b&q base/wall units and birch veneer doors/handles in sale, roughly £800, 2x 4m bushboard worktops from local suppier 1 of them cut to fit and edged (door side of room) for £250 and then got the plumber/heating engineer who fitted our central heating to reroute water/gas pipes, fit sink, gas hob into 4m worktop - not sure of the cost of this as got him to include it in his quote for central heating which was alot less than other quotes just for heating - just had to pay his kitchen fitter mate £100 cash in hand on the day to fit base units to that side, cut out and fit 4m worktop (if your DIYing you WILL need help with a 4m length of worktop! this was £100 well spent in my eyes). The rest I fitted myself. Appliances (bosch gas hob, double under oven and cooker hood approx £1000) So with tiles (£60 from local end of line outlet) and flooring (£200 ish uniclic laminate) and alot of blood, sweat, tears and swearing by me and other bits and pieces came to around £2500 for a kitchen that looks good and I'm proud of:beer: Local "put on new doors to tart up kitchen" quoted over £3000 for new doors and worktops fitted (not including appliances or anything else) !!

dougk_2

Manchester_Lucy wrote:

Would you suggest borrowing again on new mortgage or taking out a separate loan or doing something I hate and getting in using kitchen company's finance?

Depends how quickly you wan't to pay it back - You may get away with a 12 month interest free credit card if you can pay it back within a year.

If the current kitchen is useable personally i would wait until your finances are more settled and do it then. Start with other smaller jobs first like redecorating the rest of your house to your taste. But hey everyone is differnent so there is no right or wrong answer.

Manchester_Lucy

Yeah you may be right. I can get carried away sometimes and want everything perfect the first time but I'll have to accept that this may not always be possible.

The kitchen isn't too horrible just dated and not to our taste but then you can't have everything you want in your first home!

Lucie_2

I think your £4K is not too far off the mark. We priced up a kitchen in our last house (but then moved instead!) & IIRC it went something like this:
Units - £1500 approx from MFI. Probably mid-price range. Didn't include any appliances
Fitting - £1500 by MFI. Could get cheaper if you could be bothered to search around for someone to do it.
Oven/hob/extractor - £500 ex-display deal in Currys. We did actually buy this & used it in the new house.
We already had a fridge/dishwasher/washing machine, so they were not part of the deal. It was an "average" sized kitchen, not massive, but not tiny either.
On top of all that you've got re-decorating, electrics, lights etc
Personally I'd go to MFI with all your measurements & an idea of the layout you'd like & get them to design & price it up. There's no obligation to buy from them, but at least it will give you an idea.

Manchester_Lucy

dovemeister wrote:

So with tiles (£60 from local end of line outlet) and flooring (£200 ish uniclic laminate) and alot of blood, sweat, tears and swearing by me and other bits and pieces came to around £2500 for a kitchen that looks good and I'm proud of:beer: Local "put on new doors to tart up kitchen" quoted over £3000 for new doors and worktops fitted (not including appliances or anything else) !!

Wow that sounds great. Neither of us have got much DIY know how and I think it's a bit much to ask my dad to help us work it all out. Although he did say that he'd shop at B&Q for us on a Wednesday so he could use his OAP discount!!

Manchester_Lucy

Lucie wrote:

Units - £1500 approx from MFI. Probably mid-price range. Didn't include any appliances
Fitting - £1500 by MFI. Could get cheaper if you could be bothered to search around for someone to do it.

Personally I'd go to MFI with all your measurements & an idea of the layout you'd like & get them to design & price it up. There's no obligation to buy from them, but at least it will give you an idea.

Yeah you're probably right. I've heard loads of bad things about MFI so I'm a bit warey of using them. Has anyone much experience of Magnet? We've got a huge showroom near us along with a few independant kitchen shops.

Lucie_2

Manchester_Lucy wrote:

I've heard loads of bad things about MFI so I'm a bit wary of using them.

TBH I was too, but my sister used them & her kitchen was excellent quality. OK, she had some hassles at the beginning (units being delivered on wrong day, fitters turning up before units etc) but once they got going it was fine. Talking to people who have used other kitchen companies, they all seem to have some issue or another. I think it's the nature of the beast.

Do the same with Magnet as MFI - get them to do you a quote. They all offer a free design & quotation service so make use of it. I wouldn't be afraid to tell them that you're pricing up 2/3 different options either - let's them know that they're going to have to work hard to get your business.

dwarfer01

ours was 9k for a small/medium moben kitchen with fitting tiles and appliances, which i think is well worth it, we are very happy and i would recommend them.