New Kitchen experience

[grey_lady]

Ikea do pretty nice kitchens from about 5k plus - (anyone else thinking that the Ikea mafia at Fenchurch street last week morning and night was a bit much? )

Else get yourself to Wicks or another wholeseller, pick the design and measure it up yourself and fit it yourself or get a builder to do it. You would probably save a few k.

[norrahe]

With magnet you can negotiate them down on price. £15k all in sounds a lot for that space.

My kitchen is roughly the same size and i got them down to £8k, in the end I didn't bother as it looked like we might move at the time and I didn't want to put in a new kitchen for the benefit of tenants.

I would check out the lewis and cook range at b&q, it's very good quality which was suprising.

[norrahe]

Else get yourself to Wicks or another wholeseller, pick the design and measure it up yourself and fit it yourself or get a builder to do it. You would probably save a few k.

wickes not very good quality, I was pretty shocked when I went in for a good look.

[DiscoStu]

Right - serious question here.

Looking to have a new kitchen built in a reasonably sized space - approx. 5m x 5m. Have been to Magnet and also had one of those "designers" i.e. salesman come round from Kitchen Italia (.com). Estimates range around the £15k mark all in, for a modern kitchen with central island and appliances.

Having never done a project like this before, I'm not sure what to expect. The price seems reasonable but what concerns me most are the horror stories I read on websites where customers have any number of problems with kitchens or the fitters.

Has anyone here had a good experience WRT buying a new kitchen and would you recommend any particular vendor/fitter or large chain?

Where abouts are you? I've got a friend who's a designer at a fairly high end kitchen place in Herts if that's any use?

[ChimpMaster]

Where abouts are you? I've got a friend who's a designer at a fairly high end kitchen place in Herts if that's any use?

Sounds tempting but "high-end" pricing worries me!! I'm looking at £15k max, as offerred to us by www.kitchenitalia.com. This includes one of their solid wood kitchens of 17 units to cover 2 walls (5m x 5m), an island (2.4m x 1m) and integrated applicances: hob, extractor, oven, microwave, dishwasher, beer dispenser (yes that's for me). But to be honest I'm not 100% happy with their cabinet colour choices.

I would pay up to £20k if it got me a much better kitchen. Do you have a website for your mate's place?

[MPwannadecentincome]

wickes not very good quality, I was pretty shocked when I went in for a good look.

It depends which range you pick - the cheaper ones definitely were not good quality

[Liability]

and what a crock of tulip they are. We have about 5k wotrh of granite in ours but it chips, you can't put really hot stuff on it (or it might crack - good job it's not in anywhere near a flipin cooker then!!) and you only need somebody to brush past it and it needs polishing. I wish I'd took the cheaper option of solid wood.

that is more than likely due to it being cheap tulipe Chinese Imported Granite.

[Spacecadet]

You are obviously not married. Homebase would have done me but the wife managed to spend over £25k of our money, stone tiles, solid oak doors, granite worktops, all new matching hidden appliances etc.

Do matching hidden appliances look better than non-matching hidden appliances?

Or is hte wife applying the same logic to kitchens as she does to her her bra and knickers?

[Halo Jones]

and integrated applicances: beer dispenser

OMG I did know know these existed - now I know how to keep a man in the kitchen

[DiscoStu]

Sounds tempting but "high-end" pricing worries me!! I'm looking at £15k max, as offerred to us by www.kitchenitalia.com. This includes one of their solid wood kitchens of 17 units to cover 2 walls (5m x 5m), an island (2.4m x 1m) and integrated applicances: hob, extractor, oven, microwave, dishwasher, beer dispenser (yes that's for me). But to be honest I'm not 100% happy with their cabinet colour choices.

I would pay up to £20k if it got me a much better kitchen. Do you have a website for your mate's place?

http://www.studio3kitchens.co.uk/