Kitchen/Bathroom budgets

[anonymous-user]

Loads of people on here been through this, how much do you budget for a half decent kitchen, bathroom & say two en suites? I was thinking keep £40k to one side to totally kit out an average(modern)home? Very rough ideas from people who have been there would be great Cheers

[davidd]

I have £30k set aside for a kitchen, small downstairs loo, ensuite and family bathroom. We'll also have a garage conversion, a couple of walls out, 2 or three windows and a new front door.

[furtive]

About £25k for the kitchen and about £7.5k for the en-suite (over spent on that by £2.5k but got lovely stuff in it)

[Jasandjules]

It's a how long is a piece of string.

You can do things cheaply, or you can spend money. Lots of money.

I have refitted two four piece bathrooms and a shower room en-suite and so far it's been about 2k for materials (two corner baths included) - I spent a LOT of time looking online though and purchasing from various suppliers. Then it's 1.5k on a fitter - I am doing the tiling etc myself. My neighbour spent 3k on a small en-suite!

I've spent 4k on a kitchen, I've spent 15k on a small kitchen. It's about how flash do you want it - fully integrated miele stuff will be more expensive. Colour matched carcasses, 2" thick marble worktops and so on...

[anonymous-user]

Cheers, I'm not talking flash stuff, TBH I'm perfectly happy with what we currently have (new build, gloss white kitchen). If I find a place(looking at moving to older properties with tired looking kicthens from 1999) I want to go straight in & replace the lot. Job done.

[Fittster]

A lot depends on how much of the work you can do yourself, I've only been involved in a couple of kitchen refits but most of the budget went on labour rather than materials.

[anonymous-user]

Yeah true. I'm pretty handy, tiles floors & fitted kitchens myself before. I'd get a pro in to do thw wall tiling though. My bro used to be a kitchen fitter too

[davidd]

I have a friend who supplies bathroom and plumbing stuff so that helps. We did our last bathroom for under £500 (did all the work ourselves) with decent quality plain kit, it is pretty easy if you are replacing not moving stuff. Next time I would get someone else to do the tiling as I am crap

[singlecoil]

Kitchen pricing is very size dependent, more units, more cash. More fancy stuff, more cash.

One of my kitchens, say one big enough to have an island, you might figure on

Furniture up to £7.5K
Granite worktops £3K to £4K
Appliances, sinks etc up to £2K not including ranges etc
Fitting £2K to £3k depending on tiling etc

[anonymous-user]

Cheers guys, helpful

[cuneus]

I am constantly amazed at some of the prices charged
e.g. a Matki shower - proper resin tray, upstand, no silicone (important!)

http://www.matki.co.uk/matki-shower-products/illus...

This was over £1500 in the shops - Plumbworld did it for a shade under £900