I intend to buy a 25-year house and intend to renovate the kitchen because it is really old. Can you please let me some advice how much for the full kitchen renovation (with medium quality)? Is it worth we buy a old house and renovate with good location (near to shops, schools) or choose a new house with bad location (far to shops, schools).
Thanks.
Wow who was with this? can you PM me with details?
i got quoted 25k for a kitchen roughly the same size, but melamine doors, laminate benchtop.
Hi Charzy,
I got a quote from a guy called Marcel from Sydney Style Kitchen. Lovely guy, competitive quote. I just haven't got the time to go ahead.
Regards,
Tom
I would buy the older house with better location. Since you can always renovate and old house but you cant make the house have a better location. That being said, you need to also see whether the house location will improve. New shopping malls, ability to subdivide, etc.
There are too many variables in this equation to give you an accurate answer. For example, my mother renovated the kitchen in her main house in Melbourne in a very expensive suburb at a cost of $70k. She did the same thing at the beach house on the Mornington Peninsula, in a larger kitchen, with more extensive marble, and the cost was around $30k. I am looking at renovating the kitchen in my house myself, buying IKEA cabinetry and customising it, and im budgeting about $20k, but I'm likely to go over.
Beware of Ikeas nonstandard cabinetry sizes though. Also look at standard cabinetry from bunnings/masters as they follow industry standard sizing.
Might be slightly off topic but OP please PM me if you are based in Melbourne. I have to make sure you avoid the guy who did our kitchen, it was a disaster!
Its hard to quote on a full kitchen reno as it is like saying how much will an extension cost (too many variables).
If you shop around, you should be able to find someone who will install polyurethane kitchen cabinets and stone benchtops for under $20K. But you need to factor in appliances ($5-10K), tile vs glass splashbacks, electrics, plumbing, floor tiling, lighting (ceiling, under cabinet, etc). If you can avoid changing the plumbing (i.e. keeping the pipes roughly all in the same place), that alone could save you a couple of thousand dollars. Other factors were going with Quantum Quartz instead of Caesarstone; my understanding is that they're pretty much the same product but QQ is a lot cheaper as it doesn't have the brand name.
Quotes for my kitchen ranged from $20-$50K for cabinets, stone benchtops & waterfall. The $50K ones were the quotes from the specialised kitchen places, so do shop around.
If you can, you need to live in the house for a couple of months and over that time, you can figure out how you want to use your kitchen (e.g. indoor vs outdoor entertaining, food prep areas, storage, lighting etc).
Can you please advise how to shop around about kitchen renovation? I just google and found many providers but not sure who is good or bad. Hichic
Our '91 built house we just re-did the kitchen. Gutted it and started from scratch. About a 3x3 Kitchen.
We had multiple quotes from multiple kitchen places. All kitchen design place quotes including trades came in from 22-27k.
Ended up finding a kitchen cabinet maker instead and saved ourselves about 8k. Cabinets 8.5k plus stone 2.3k, plus a few extras we got installed like LED lights under the cabinets. $12k for cabinet maker plus $5k trades. You can save big on trades if you can do some of it yourself but I'm not handy at all ;)
The kitchen places blatantly lied to our face on a number of items, especially the "cost Price" of stone benches. EG: They swore that our benches were $4500 cost price and they were making $0 profit. Yet our kitchen cabinet maker got the identical stone for $2300…
We also had quotes from Good-Guys who lied to our face, twice, deliberately to get us to sign up on the day. We were quoted $12k including labour (wow great price good guys!!). But turns out this was a lie, an attempt to get us to pay a deposit and sign up only to find out later it was $17k plus trades from Good-Guys - AVOID! Lots of googling about good guys dodgey practises.
Trades should cost you between 4-6k for a fully gutted kitchen where you need services moved/added.
We went a basic white gloss malamite for the panels, which is a nice finish but cheaper than some other options like 2-pac.
Pics of our nearly finished kitchen minus paint and minus the microwave :) https://imgur.com/a/ucoeP
Your kitchen look good mates. I think my kitchen is similar to your kitchen. I am not handy too so I prefer a package for my kitchen rather than only design and cabinet…Can you please let me know who you did your kitchen? Tour renovated kitchen is finally came up with 14k?
Thanks.
Nah all up 12.5k for the kicthen cabinets and installation, plus trades of 5k for plumbing, tiling, elec, plaster = 17.5k.
Plus appliances / fittings on top….
Are you in Melbourne? My guy only does Melbourne kitchens.
Yes, I am in Melbourne.
Ours on Gold Coast was around $12.5K inc all trades + new appliances.
Cabinets were from Cut to Size Ashmore.
Hey, do u mind PMing me the details of your kitchen person? Cheers
Hi Skramit, thanks for sharing. I was wondering how the kitchen is holding up?
I got quoted 17k for a full kitchen reno. Admittedly my kitchen is not big.
My kitchen is 3.4 x 4. The quoted came with:
I still hasn't decided to go ahead although i'm happy with the quote. Shop around :)
Oh and to answer your question. Location Location Location.