Recommendations for where to buy my new kitchen

salbot

Hello,

I want to buy a completely new kitchen. As it will be one of the most expensive purchases I have made after actually buying my house I want to make a well informed decision.

It is not a massive kitchen and I do not want to spend over £3000 (so I won't be buying a handmade bespoke one!) but I do want it to be good quality. I have heard so many horror stories about getting new kitchens so I wanted get some good advice about where to buy. Has anyone got any good recommendations? I am totally open to all suggestions!

Thanks
Salbot

Ellidee

There have been posts on here about this before did you do a search ? Think maybe Howdens got the thumbs up. HTH

daveyjp

Wickes provided us with an excellent service. It cost about £1500 excluding appliances and according to my builder who fitted it it is decent quality. Over 50 boxes when it was delivered and not even a screw missing.

Decent worktops can make a real difference to a lo cost kitchen.

Canucklehead

Good evening: Ikea...lots of comments here, positive and negative... http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.html?searchid=15963681

HTH

Canucklehead

salbot

I did do a search and browsed through the results but couldn't see anything specifcally about where to buy from.

Have got someone from Howdens coming round this weekend to do me a design so hopefully that will give me some idea of what I want.

I do like the Ikea kitchens and they seem reasonably priced, I'm just not sure if I want something a bit more chunky! I do like those chunky wood kitchens, probably out of my price range though!

Hadn't thought of Wickes, will definatley have a look, my dad just told me they were very good and quite cheap too! If my dad says so.......dads are nearly always right!

Thanks
Salbot

salbot

Thanks for the link Canuklehead. I totally missed all those posts, and I am a librarian as well, we are supposed to have good searching skills! Oh dear.

Salbot

daveyjp

Our experience:

MFI - designed wouldn't work and I can't be doing with starting high then discounting - just tell me the goddam price!

Howdens - limited choice and not the best quality

Ikea - design service poor, builder advised us to avoid as some of our carcases needed reducing in depth and doing this with Ikea units is time consuming and fiddly. My builder has been in the trade for 35 years and hates Ikea kitchens with a passion.

Wickes - redid the MFI design so it would work, good choice, gave a price straight away, delivered on time.

skim

We bought ours from B&Q - easy to fit.

At the time we bought it the offer was just 15% off.
However 3 months on it was reduced to 50% off so we bought it all online again & took it straight back to the local store & received the money back off the first order at full price (not the 15% off price)
Cheapest kitchen I've ever had:rotfl:

LandyAndy

salbot wrote: »

Thanks for the link Canuklehead. I totally missed all those posts, and I am a librarian as well, we are supposed to have good searching skills! Oh dear.

Salbot

Do you know studentphil?

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salbot

Thanks for advice, definatley going to try Wickes and B & Q, my friend also recommended B & Q, and will see what the Howden guy says tomorrow.

LandyAndy - no sorry, don't know studentphil

LandyAndy

salbot wrote: »

Thanks for advice, definatley going to try Wickes and B & Q, my friend also recommended B & Q, and will see what the Howden guy says tomorrow.

LandyAndy - no sorry, don't know studentphil

Lucky escape:D .