mfi kitchen's good or bad

shopaholicjules

Can someone please tell me the name in Howdens of the MFI space cream.
I have been on MFI to try and have a go at designing a kitchen but cannot get the kitchen planner to loas, I just get a blank screen.

Thanks
Jules

across

dont know what to do anymore! kitchen still dripping away, fitter not turned up, manager not in store until tomorrow worktop now totally ruined it has blown through surface so the whole kitchen needs new worktop and the whole place is just sopping wet through drip...drip.....drip..... looks like something on the DIY SOS programme if i got a book in library i could of done a better job than the MFI fitter! anyone any ideas? where next? wondering if its time to give in and tell house insurance but then again if MFI caused the problem and its well within guarentee the insurance wouldnt touch it would they?? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: any ideas are more than welcome. thanks! what rights do i have if any?

Hype_2

Girl_least_likely_to wrote: »

Thanks so much for the update. We've still not managed to get to Howdens for a brochure but we're having an extension done ATM and our builder says he has an account there . He's never got a kitchen from there but it's looking good. We like the cream in the Space range too, I agree the Magnet one isn't as nice. I received a brochure from Kitchens Direct who do a similar range but there's are horrible in comparison to MFI's. I don't know where/if you're getting appliances from MFI/Howdens but Kitchen Direct's look quite cheap. I'm after a range cooker and there's a double oven one on their website for only £299.

Hi

Me and hubby loved the space white at MFI, but got a quote for £7400.00 and that was just the units, sink tap and worktop! and £12500.00 with all appliances, we were quite dissapointed as our budget was £7000.00 all in.

Luckily we have a friend of a friend that has an account with Howdens, we went for the space white in MFI, which is called the Glendovan White in Howdens, Howdens don't sell all the units, for example they do not sell the long 1000cm wall cabinets or the pan draw, so we brought half from Howdens and the remaining 6 units we wanted from MFI and the franke sink and tap package that they display with the space range the cost came to £4175.00, saving of £3225.00!!! we also got a free diswasher from MFI and a hotpaoint washer dryer for a fraction of the price from Howdens.

The Howdens price came in at £2200.00 and we paid £1900.00 to MFI for the units we could not buy from Howdens, bear in mind we got between 80 to 85% dicount on everthing from Howdens.

The best bet would be to get a plan done from MFI with measurement and then try and get a copy of this from MFi, they will be very reluctant to give it unless you kick up a bit of a fuss, you can then go to any other company and easily get a price as the measurement are there.

The space cream is the Glendoven Cream in Howdens by the way.

Hope this helps.



We could not belive it!!!

shopaholicjules

Hi
My quote from MFI was 7500 yesterday which was nothing special and I have now changed the design, the guy wasn't very helpful.
I have been looking at the Glendoven cream in the Howdens brochure and it looks like the side panels are different to the MFI ones, is this correct as I would like them the same as MFI.
I too will have to look at getting the pan drawers from MFI as I really want them.
I also want to get the small dot plinth lighting but don't know if this would be on the cream or solid wood plinth.
£1900 still seems alot for 6 units and a sink or have I yet to realise just how expensive it is to have a new kitchen?
Any ideas/advice welcome.
Jules

Hype_2

shopaholicjules wrote: »

Hi
My quote from MFI was 7500 yesterday which was nothing special and I have now changed the design, the guy wasn't very helpful.
I have been looking at the Glendoven cream in the Howdens brochure and it looks like the side panels are different to the MFI ones, is this correct as I would like them the same as MFI.
I too will have to look at getting the pan drawers from MFI as I really want them.
I also want to get the small dot plinth lighting but don't know if this would be on the cream or solid wood plinth.
£1900 still seems alot for 6 units and a sink or have I yet to realise just how expensive it is to have a new kitchen?
Any ideas/advice welcome.
Jules

We experianced the same thing with MFI first time around as well, when the guy quoted us £7400.00 he was not at al interested in lowring the price to close the deal.

Sorry my mistake in the end we actually brought 8 units in total which was

2 tall tambour wall units
2 half height glass wall units
2 half height wall units
2 1000cm pan draws

these howdens do not sell.

The side panels are the same in Howdens as MFI, with a gloss finish.

I think you can put the plinth lights in an type of plinths, we brought the stainless steel plinths from howdens, they were £94.00, in MFI they were £495.00 and are identical.

We will be buying the plinth lights from B&Q an again they are for the fraction of the price of MFI.

hope this helps.

andybed

I'm currently waiting for a quote from Howdens for what was originally the Cream Glendevon.

Anyway now I've changed my mind to White Glendevon because according to the pictures on the howdens website and also those in the catalogue there's a difference between the MFI Cream space and the Howdens Cream Glendevon, namely the cornice around the top and bottom of the wall units has a round profile and is not the flush square edge as I've seen in MFI and its brochure. I phoned the designer today and he confirmed this so I'm going for white which seems the same as the MFI units.

shopaholicjules

Thanks hype and Andy, all this info is great when I haven't a clue what I am doing.
What are the tall tambour wall units, when I go on the MFI website it says it is unable to show me images. Why did you go with their half height wall units, do Howdens not do them, is this the ones that you pull up instead of open to the side, if so I want a couple of these do and definatley some of the pan drawers, i just wish they were that big with three drawers like my friend has (different kitchen) so she can put her utensils in the top small but long drawer.
Thanks about the side panels as in the Howdens brochure they are showing as wood.
I will have a look at B&Q for plinth lights and def get the plinths from Howdens.
Andy
Soz for seeming a little stupies, I am looking in the Howdens brochure at the cram and can not see the differance between that and the white. Do you mean that the edging on the top goes over a little rather than being flush.
I think I now see what you mean and can now see the differance.
Now I haven't a clue what to do as I wanted cream and not white but I too want the clear defined edges.
What to do now?

Thanking you for your replies.
Jules

shopaholicjules

Just a thought, if I get the cream ends instead of wood, would they be flush and the same size as cabinet and not overlap.
Here's hoping

Jules

andybed

shopaholicjules wrote: »

Just a thought, if I get the cream ends instead of wood, would they be flush and the same size as cabinet and not overlap.
Here's hoping

Jules

Its the top pelmet and bottom cornice which have the rounded slightly longer edges. For some reason the MFI version of the cream is the same as the white/black version ie. it has flush finished pelmet and Cornice. If you look at https://www.Howdens.com you will see that the Black version, called High Gloss Black has this square edged finish in its description. If you want cream in this style then it looks like MFI is your only option.

ChasingButterflies

Hi,

We had a MFI kitchen fitted approx in late 2000 the cabinets and worktops were all a really decent quality and we had no problems - except we couldn't take it with us when we moved!

We did organise our own joiner to fit it as their price for installation was scary - and we saved a bit by knocking out the old kitchen ourselves and doing silly bits we were capable of i.e. tiling - I was 8 months pregnant at the time so was little more use than that!

We have just redone one of our bathrooms and had MFI bathroom cabinets and worktops put in and I am impressed with the quality - the only problem we had was a missing bracket - which they posted out to us and it arrived next day.

Generally MFI seem to have a sale running for most of the year - although not always!