I've just fitted my new Ikea kitchen and I'm VERY please with the
quality of the units.

Also Ikea do a free 3D kitchen designed program (for Windows) which can
be downloaded from
http://www.ikea.co.uk/ms/en_GB/rooms.../download.html

p.s. I'm nothing to do with Ikea except being a happy customer!

Richard wrote:
Hello All,

I thought I'd ask for your opinions on purchasing a new Kitchen.

I have been trying to decide if spashing out 8-10K on a new kitchen is
really worthwhile or settling for an equivalent B and Q jobbie at a
quarter of the price would be better or serve us just as well. I had
kitchens Direct in not so long ago and they qouted me 14K which I
thought was a complete Pi!s take and have had other qoutes from people
like John Lewis and Nichols for around the 8-10K price mark. Today
whilst browsing through B and Q which has become my second home
recently I stumbled on their kitchen range and quite like the gloss
white offering they have. The money for this in comparison seems like
peanuts. One of my mates recently spent 32K on his kitchen!!!! it
looks real impressive but Im not sure you couldn't of got something a
third of that price which would of basically looked the same.

Can someone tell me if there really is that much difference in quality
to justify spending 10K on a new kitchen. We plan to stay in the house
for a long time and have plenty of other things that we could be
spending our money on as we have basically renovated the whole
downstairs thanks to a lot of help and advice from you folks.

My mrs was telling me that on one of the DIY programmes recently it
was mentioned that the average proce paid for a kitchen is 2K.

What questions should I be asking?

Any comments greatly appreciated as usual.

Cheers

Richard