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Gifted a very expensive kitchen

Im new here, please be gentle...

My partner works for a property developer and they work on very high end properties, he has just removed a kitchen to replace it with a new one, he asked the customer if he could have the old kitchen, the customer was more than happy for it not to be filling the skip outside...

Anyway, I would like to know what we do next, I live in a council property and I know I have to ask them if I can install this new kitchen,. however I am not a kitchen deigned and am totally baffled with dimensions etc.

Does anyone know of a website where I can easily draw up some kind of plan, I don't have any spare cash to pay someone to come and advise.

My partner will be fitting the kitchen, it is almost brand new, its stunning, I feel so lucky to have stumbled across this amazing opportunity :)

Comments

  • Hello and welcome

    First thing I'd do is get the kitchen and measure the units. Measure your existing kitchen and first see if it will fit.


    If the units are stock size. Get some graph paper and play about on there. If you can make it work speak to the council. If they allow it crack on.

    If not sell it on.
  • Sausage11
    Sausage11 Posts: 123 Forumite
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    We're just completing a complete rebuild of a bungalow and I've used https://www.floorplanner.com for the entire internal design including kitchen.

    You can use a free version which will do everything you need and there are some very helpful explanatory videos on YouTube.
  • huckster
    huckster Posts: 5,447 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Magnet have a kitchen design tool. Kitchen units are normally to a few standard sizes. You just need to know the height, width and depth of each unit.
    The comments I post are personal opinion. Always refer to official information sources before relying on internet forums. If you have a problem with any organisation, enter into their official complaints process at the earliest opportunity, as sometimes complaints have to be started within a certain time frame.
  • Ah, thanks all :)

    I've measured all units, all seem standard measurements, looking good, I will have a look at the links you've suggested.

    I have a fancy iMac, you'd think you could do it on here lol
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