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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Amy Reeves

I fitted my own kitchen... twice – here's why I doubt I'll do it again

White painted kitchen with green tiles on the wall and green kitchen cupboards.

Renovating houses is an expensive business, with the average kitchen costing anywhere between £10,000 and £35,000+. When it came to sorting out my own kitchen in two different houses, I tried to look for ways to stick to our budget for both home improvement projects and that involved fitting my own kitchen.

My first house was a mid-century cottage that hadn’t been touched since the early seventies, if the various shades and patterns of brown wallpaper, carpets and curtains were anything to go by. Alongside the cost of a new kitchen, the whole place needed remodelling. We only had our savings to work with, so we chose DIY Kitchens to supply our kitchen.

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