New kitchen or remodelling?

Nellie · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8

I am doing up a 20 year old house with an old kitchen. I'm not sure if it's worth pulling out completely or trying to do it up. Has anyone experience of redoing all the units or is it easier to pull the whole thing out?

Avoca · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 10

Hi there, I haven't renovated an old kitchen but when we did refurbishment we put in a new kitchen and I really love it. I think if you are upgrading an old kitchen you are stuck with the old layout and can't arrange it to what you want. I'm not sure how much money you'd save and you may not be happy with the result. I'd redo the whole thing. Try the panelling centre... we got ours from them and got it in a sale with 25% off which was great. Our fitter told us that if we had got him first he could have ordered it and got a discount. The kitchen places have lists of fitters.

cli · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

If you're happy with the layout in general, it should be possible to leave the unit carcases in place and just replace the doors - this would give a completely new look at a fraction of the price of a completely new kitchen. You could spend the savings on a splash out granite worktop or some such luxury!! Wisdom of doing this might depend on the quality of the carcasses. Good luck! Cli

hiprobotamus · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

I am getting an extension built and I also went to the Panelling Center for a new kitchen. However just before we ordered we heard about Noyeks & Newmans and checked them out. Ended up getting out kitchen from there almost half the price!! Panelling centre were quoting between 7 and 8k and we got the same kitchen from Noyeks for about 4.5k! Can't beat those prices!