Crown Imperial do an In-Frame kitchen, as well as the regular painted Shaker style. You would get more cabinet options with the Shaker style. Their showroom is in Daventry but there should be a retailer local to you with some displays.

http://www.crown-imperial.co.uk/kitchens/

£15k seems like a really good price. Quartz worktops are likely to be £4/5k, so only £11k on furniture seems pretty good.

If you need to get budget down from there you need to consider a plant on door rather than an in frame, you should also consider a laminate rather than a wood.

Lastly you could plan the kitchen with fewer units or pull outs and add more later when your budget allows.

Thanks all - plenty of great advice there. Sounds like my current quote is about right for what I'm looking for, so any reduction would have to come from reigning in our requirements. Perhaps I'll splurge, though!

Ashley Ann absolutely! http://www.ashleyann.co.uk/the-collection/caledonia/

Some interesting concepts there, OnePlan - looks to be quite a lot of crossover in the design of that and what we're looking for. Obviously you don't have a full spect of our requirements, but do you think they price would be significantly below than £15k?

In all honesty I don't know as I just design them - I don't price them ! Sorry !

Charlie Spaniel - We retail bespoke German & Italian kitchens

If its a shaker style kitchen you are looking for, have a look at our houzz page we have some great inspiration, but thats not all, there are many styles of shaker doors (handles and handle-less) plus the colours vary!

Why dont you send us your kitchen plan to info@design-home.co.uk with any specific requiremens and we can design a kitchen for you with a free quotation.

Claire, your kitchen looks lovely. Can you please confirm if the Unfitted Kitchen Price of £18k included the appliances you mentioned. Also what wood do they use for the cabinets? Many thanks

Symphony kitchens https://www.symphony-group.co.uk/products/kitchens/new-england

Hi Seema,

Thank you!

Yes that £18k did include the appliances (except for the dishwasher as we already had one) but didn't include the worktop, which is Unistone that we got from Granite Planet for £2,300 (although it's worth noting our fab interior designer ordered it for us and passed on her trade discount for that and it should have been £2,700)

The actual cabinetry was £12,250. We then paid £1,500 in extras which included beading to the doors, a surcharge for the Armac Martin brass handles, the oak lining and also the full skirts.

As pointed out above the skirts are a personal choice and an 'extra'- we just liked that look and paid extra to get backache :) but they definitely do them without.

The 2 ovens, full height fridge, full height freezer, Neff flush induction hob were £2,400 but again, we used Create Perfect Interior design (from on here) and the appliances should have been £550 more but the kitchen shop matched the price she was able to get from John Lewis using her trade discount, so we benefitted from a good discount here too.

We then paid £1,300 for the large butler sink and the Perrin and Rowe 3 in 1 hit water tap.

Fitting was then £2,050, taking the total to just over £18,000.

It is worth noting that we received a £1,250 discount across the whole kitchen due to our designer negotiating on price for us, that is split across the price of the cabinetry and fitting.

I know there are a huge amount of things to consider when buying a kitchen and I'm sure the above from Suresh, Andrew and OnePlan are excellent suggestions.

One of the reasons we personally chose Unfitted was due to the units being made as continuous pieces; you'll be able to see if you look closely that it's not all individual cabinets with joins between them, it is all continuous.

They make all of the carcasses and doors themselves (it's surprising when you ask quite a few companies how many out source certain parts and then pull them together internally to create the finished items). They are made from tulip wood and then we paid extra to have them oak lined.

On the plus side their service was very good and really personal (it's Mark the managing director that comes out to visit you) and the quality of the items and fitting in our opinion is superb. We did about 5 amendments before settling on the final design and nothing was too much trouble.

As I guess most companies will these days, it is all hand painted so you can pick any colour from any paint range at all, which was a huge plus for us.

On the disadvantages side, as an independent they don't have 3D software like the large companies, so you won't get a nice 3D image to look at like with a lot of companies. This absolutely wasn't a problem for us as our designer does 3D renders so she worked with the kitchen company for us and we had 3D images and videos of the space, so knew exactly how it would look

We're still not quite finished- waiting for new dining table, soft furnishings etc that are all on order but here are a few more pics if it helps.

Just let me know if you need any other info at all- super happy to help if I can

Best wishes,

Claire

Thank you!

The room is quite an unusual shape (we knocked three rooms together) and quite large, so we didn't want everything neutral or we thought it might get a bit 'lost'. It really defines the kitchen as the central zone across the room.

I looked at so many- it's Como blue from Zoffany.

I loved F&B Stifkey Blue in the showroom but it took on a slightly green undertone in our kitchen, so our designer got me to paint lots of empty shoe boxes with different blue / navy paints to see them at all angles, includinf the sunshine and shadows and this had a lovely warm look to it.

In the sunshine it's quite vibrant but in the shadows / evenings it's more of a navy blue

We didn't use the blue in the pantry though as thought it would be too much, so went for Purbeck stone with wooden worktops to compliment the blue but work better in a smaller space!

Good luck with your project- would love to see some pics when you're up and running :)

Ooohhh! How exciting!

I'm trying to remember the names of some of the others I tried, which were all quite similar colours- there was definitely one from Little Greene (maybe Basalt?) I liked a lot and also Marston and Langinger had a colour that I was very close to choosing!

The space and glazing sounds fab!!! Can't wait to see some pics!

Yes definitely worth spending some time on the lighting plan. If I'm super honest our designer did our lighting plan and I thought it was totally OTT when I first saw it (sorry Gina!) but I'm happy to say I was totally wrong! Haha! It absolutely makes the room and means we can really change how the room looks and feels depending on what we're using it for! In particular I would never have thought of using warm LED strips to light our open shelves but I absolutely love it for evenings and entertaining!

Definitely get posting as you get started- lovely to see things coming together :)

Claire, thanks for all this invaluable information - lots to think about. Your kitchen looks fab. I'm envious. We are also looking at a blue kitchen with unistone marble effect worktops. Can you let me know what brass finish the Armac Martin handles are, they look lovely. Many thanks

The worktop I really wanted was the Silestone Lagoon but it was coming in at over £4,000!! We went with the Unistone Bianco Carrera in the matt finish, which I could hardly tell any difference from the Lagoon. Probably hard to see from the pics but it's actually a pale grey / off white with slight marbling.

The finish on the handles is the Antique Bella Brass and it's not shown on the website but if you call them then they're super helpful- although the price might make your eyes water slightly!

Ah yes, I really like the Bianco Carrera. I went with Carrara Misterio as I'm using it a splash back as well. Thanks for the info on the handles. Will make contact with them.

Hi Julie,

Thank you!

They're the Glass Bell Pendants by Old School Electric and they're sold in a few places- we got ours Fromm Heals. Here's the link

https://www.heals.com/glass-bell-pendant.html?utm_source=google_shopping&m=configurable_scp&gclid=CP706YGTg9ACFVQaGwody40ACA

Hope that helps :)

Hi,

Sorry I am a little late - Hopefully not too later. juliethowes20 we actually went for the same lights but from Amara from Claire's project in the end as they were slightly cheaper and the discount I got was also better from Amara than Heals. https://www.amara.com/products/blown-glass-bell-pendant-bronze 

Suresh Ellawala we also shop around for all parts of the kitchen to ensure we get the most for your budget. The same went for the handles in Claire's project as well as you heard the worktop which is where you can really make a saving.

No problem Claire Nicholson I am just glad you liked the final finished lighting and that it works for how you use your kitchen - that's where it matters :) It's looking fab!!

Gina

Hi edwardallen,

I am Claire’s interior designer, I actually purchased everything individually. The door was purchased as a blank door, we painted it in a Farrow and Ball paint with a seal on top. It was then glazed and I designed the door sign which I had made by Inkmill. The pantry and laundry are the same - but the laundry sign also had frosting.

Hope that helps. Gina :)

thank you ...and no problem. If you need any help with supplier information or a-like don’t hesitate to drop me a message. All the best, Gina

https://www.howdens.com/kitchen-collection/shaker/

Do a Saker collection now.

you might find something at Howdens but I'd rather go with a bespoke kitchen. We had one from Murdoch Troon (https://www.murdochtroon.co.uk) fully installed last spring and it still looks like new after a lot of use, compared to our 5-year old kitchen from Howdens where cabinet colours became faded within two years. Much cheaper than we originally thought it would be also.

Old thread ? Sometimes it’s wise to check the dates as the web site shows related threads that aren’t always current - when someone comments on an old one it pushes the new ones down the que to be answered . :-)