Owning your own home

Nope just the two kids, though living in a 5 bed house we generally do Christmas / Parties so the extra appliances will make entertaining easier. Anyhow i now have an oven for meat, one for potatoes and the steam oven for veg. Roasts now only take as long as the longest item (meat plus resting time)

Sounds ace - are you in Cornwall ? Any space Christmas 2020? ;)

Born in Truro, live in Sidcup

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Wsq9yg3fjUA6Gg2s6

Like @6pt in reverse order!!

Who did that cupboard btw? I am in catford and need a good carpenter

Great British Kitchen & Interiors did the work.

Simple or complicated? We have a great guy but he needs careful management. He's done a fair few small custom things for us over the years.

@dammit this

Also
I have had aeg, died after 4 years. Now have Bosch. Same price £600.

I have a vibration mat but I need motivation to pull out washing machine and then lift on top.
Also need muscles to do said task.

FFFFFUCK Offffff mate 40k!

That is ab-so-lute-ly mental

I'm glad someone said it. Could have bought a nice watch.

Could have bought twenty mink coats for that

What do you use the plugs in the cupboard for?

I suspect my 15m2 kitchen may eventually touch £40k

£20k cabinetry
£10k appliances
£5k worktop
£3k installation
£2k make good (prep)
£1k fixtures and fittings

This is my estimating, rounding (up), anticipating slippage in costs and time, etc.

I think mine is way more simple than Cornish_Bike's but the extensive worktop and number of cabinets combined with higher priced appliances even though there's fewer... all kinda indicate that this is the direction things will go in.

One/imminent project is very simple; DM me deets if you can pls!

£3k installation sounds a bit low

Toaster, Grinder and Espresso machine.

No need for a kettle anymore as we have the hot tap

It easily done, we have 24 cabinets excluding the island. The beading inlayed (inlaid??) was £6.5k on its own. Looks nice though

Has anyone got a £/m^2 figure for a basic kitchen refurb including all new cooker, hob, fridge freezer and washing machine?

I'm thinking about doing mine. As a PhD student I'm (relatively) time rich but cash poor, so would be looking to reduce budget by doing some of the work myself. I also have a father in law who is a furniture maker and who has done similar in a flat in the past.

Not sure about an m^2 figure, but Ikea get good reviews. Smallish kitchen and doing the bulk of the work youself and you could do it for under £2k (at least a mate of mine who's quite handy did).

It feels like once you've agreed to spend £20-25k that spending £25-30k and for it to enhance the total house value... it's just a no-brainer.

I'd be careful of this type of reasoning. Realistically, unless the kitchen is newly done then a lot of the premium options add little value in a lot of buyers' eyes. Anything that lasts is a bonus but for things like kitchen appliances you generally have the attitude that you've no idea of their history and they may well pack up shortly after purchase.

The buyer may also hate green units with quartz worktops and want to rip the whole thing out.

Indeed. My mate has an amazing story about an friend/acquaintance of his getting a brand new howden's kitchen for about 100 notes on gumtree provided he removed it himself. It invloved a lost passport, a walk to screwfix to buy power tools for 8pm, his friend insisting they stop at the pub on the way back and have a pint and then work finally beginning at 10.30pm. I'll not do it justice, but it gets progressively ridiculous and was very good. Anways #csb.

What we could find on kitchen's & bathrooms was that one that looks good doesn't change the asking price for a property much, but it does mean that you get offers closer to asking price and faster.

Kitchens and bathrooms are seen as consumables I think, in that they are used and destroyed as you use them, and you then need to renew them. Also, lots of people like to renew them (despite the work it requires).

The buyer may also hate green units with quartz worktops and want to rip the whole thing out.

They have no taste!