Rescuing a VERY cruddy kitchen on a budget?

shop-to-drop

Have you looked at ebay? Sort by location you can get some brilliant second hand bargains in the London area people are just glad to get rid.

Habbakuk

I need a new kitchen too and I've been looking on ebay and there seem to be quite nice ones for sale. But the ladies in my life (I am not married) ie siter and mum say that "you won't know what you're getting if you buy second-hand." But it's making me a little uneasy to fork out thousands for what is really a batchellor pad. :-)

Doozergirl

Habbakuk wrote: »

I need a new kitchen too and I've been looking on ebay and there seem to be quite nice ones for sale. But the ladies in my life (I am not married) ie siter and mum say that "you won't know what you're getting if you buy second-hand." But it's making me a little uneasy to fork out thousands for what is really a batchellor pad. :-)

The nice thing about buying a kitchen from eBay is that you have to go and get it. Which also means that you can look at what you are buying and not pay if it's really cruddy! Most of the time, you can tell from the pictures anyway, if there's enough of them.

No word of a lie, this is what I bought for £500. I bought worktops, sink etc all separately but the units were awesome! Cucina Colore by Mereway, the units were stunning quality and the drawer interiors lit up when you opened them!

Tap from eBay, sink half price clearance in B&Q, worktops were a cancelled customer order at B&Q, oven and hob from a discount Ebay seller - I went to their shop to collect and pay. Tiles were from the Original Style factory shop. I must have spent under £2000 on that lot including the van and petrol to get the kitchen etc.

Autocorrect was very keen to type "colorectal" just then, really glad I checked!

cyclonebri1

My 2pence worth/

Don't touch the chassis/cabinets unless they are rotten, (if they are you really do have to start again).

The cabinets are more or less generic, 500/1000 wide and standard height, most doors will transfer.

As others have said, Ebay is your friend here. Go visit, take down and rebuild at home, but again as said you need patience.

More perfectly good kitchens hit the tip for fashion reasons than any other, pity really:eek::eek::o:o:A:A:(:(

shop-to-drop

There's a lot of new builds sold too and often the kitchen is chosen before sold many replace straight away so you may even be able to get brand new.

User_name_invalid

Have a look at DIY kitchens, they ship nationally, about £80 per cabinet with doors. I have been looking at all types of kitchen suppliers and so far ( wren, independents , b and q), have worked out they are charging cira £400 per unit inc doors, sorry but MDF for £400, it's a joke, also have a look at gumtree, there are people who will give you their old kitchen for free: sadly I can't give you my old kitchen as it's wrecked by children and dog

Owain_Moneysaver

you may find you can live with it once it's scrubbed.

Did you notice the bathroom taps used to have a hand-held shower spray?

lottieholder

Don't discount freecycle either. I've had some fantastic freebies from there including a 10x8 greenhouse, a coffee maker but in your case a brand new, never been used, still had shrink wrap on it, cooker. It came from a house that had been bought by an American couple. The sellers had put in a brand new kitchen in order to sell the house but the buyers didn't like it so ripped it all out. If I'd seen the rest of the offer I'd have had the rest of the kitchen too.

drusilla

It is lovely to be planning a new home.

If it were me (and this is from my own experience), I would just clean it and save up to get exactly what you want. It looks ropey but liveable. I mean if the people in the past Tudors, Victorians etc managed to work in their kitchens, you can manage in that. Even with a new baby. Congratulations by the way.

I moved and rushed into getting a new to me kitchen as my other one was also very ropey. It was clean but looked old and grotty.

Got the new one off ebay as ex-display. £500. It has been in for about 4 years. We are saving up to get exactly what we want now.

It will drive you mad if you do it wrong. It does me.

One of my hobbies is playing with the online computer kitchen design stuff available. Once you know what you really want then it will be much easier.

Good Luck!:)

penguingirl

Our kitchen was in a similar state- we ended up putting up with it for 3 years before getting a new one fitted. We got it from DIYkitchens and fitted it ourselves (worktops, handles, sink etc sourced elsewhere). We did replace the appliances quite quickly- it was amazing how much difference just having a new oven made to the old kitchen. Our kitchen is twice the size of yours and costs us less than 5k (and I think it would be cheaper next time as we made quite a few mistakes, link an entire worktop mismeasured- someone got a deal on feecycle!)

I vote give it a good clean (use bicarb of soda to get grease off- if you have dirty grouting mix bicard of soda with thick bleach and it will revive it) and leave it 12 months and then fit a nice kitchen (but still not necessarily expensive)