What a bespoke kitchen costs in Doncaster
A DCL kitchen, supplied and fitted, runs from £14,000 for a painted shaker galley to £45,000 and beyond for a large in-frame kitchen in solid timber. Appliances are not included in those figures.
We checked every kitchen company that ranks in Doncaster before writing this page. Not one of them publishes a price. Neither did we, until now.
It is an odd thing for a trade to do. Nobody buys a car without knowing roughly what the model costs, and yet a kitchen, which is often the second biggest thing a household buys, is quoted entirely behind closed doors. The result is that people spend an evening ringing round, get four numbers that are not comparing the same thing, and end up more confused than when they started.
So here is ours, with what moves it.
About these figures. This is a concept site. The bands below are illustrative and every number carrying a dashed underline is a placeholder waiting on DCL's real pricing. Nothing here is a quotation.
The bands
Supplied and fitted, including the design work, the cabinetry, the fitting and the removal of your old kitchen. Worktops are itemised separately because the spread is huge. Appliances are not included.
| Kitchen | What that is | Typical total |
|---|---|---|
| Painted shaker | Galley or L-shape, 8 to 12 units, painted MDF doors on birch ply carcasses, no island | £14,000 to £20,000 |
| Handleless | L-shape or U-shape with an island, 14 to 18 units, routed rail or J-pull, sprayed finish | £22,000 to £30,000 |
| In-frame, hand-painted | Open-plan with an island and a full-height larder, solid frames, hand-painted on site | £32,000 to £42,000 |
| Solid timber, in-frame | Large open-plan in oak or walnut, oiled rather than painted, boot room or utility included | £45,000 upwards |
Every figure on this page is an illustrative placeholder for the concept site. A real quotation comes from a survey of your actual room.
What worktops add
Worktops are the one line people underestimate. The same kitchen can carry a £900 worktop or a £7,000 one, and the cabinetry underneath is identical. These are indicative supply-and-fit figures for a typical run plus an island.
| Material | How it behaves | Added cost |
|---|---|---|
| Laminate | Cheapest, good patterns now, will not survive a hot pan | £900 to £1,800 |
| Solid timber | Warm, repairable, needs oiling and hates standing water | £1,600 to £3,200 |
| Granite | Natural stone, each slab different, needs sealing | £2,800 to £4,500 |
| Quartz | Engineered, consistent colour, no sealing, the popular choice | £3,000 to £5,500 |
| Dekton or porcelain | Hardest of the lot, takes heat, thin edges possible | £4,200 to £7,000 |
The worktop page compares these properly, including how they behave with heat, stains and seams.
What is in the price, and what is not
Included
- The survey and the design work, including changes
- All cabinetry: carcasses, doors, drawers, end panels, plinths, cornice
- Soft-close hinges and runners throughout
- Taking your old kitchen out and getting rid of it
- Fitting, levelling and scribing to your walls and floor
- Templating and fitting the worktop
- Coming back to adjust doors once everything has settled
Not included
- Appliances, unless you ask us to supply them
- Worktops, which are itemised separately above
- Moving gas, water or electrics to new positions
- Plastering, tiling, flooring and decorating
- Structural work: taking a wall out, putting a steel in
- Anything we find behind the old kitchen that has to be put right
We will tell you which of these your job needs at the survey, so the number you get is the number for the whole project.
Questions people ask about price
The ones that come up on nearly every survey.
What is the most expensive part of a kitchen?
Cabinetry, almost always. On a typical DCL job the units, doors and drawers are about 55% of the total, worktops 15 to 25% depending on what you choose, and fitting the rest. Appliances sit outside that entirely because most people either bring their own or specify them separately.
The reason cabinetry dominates is that it is the part being made rather than bought. A run of made-to-measure units takes workshop hours in a way a worktop cut from a slab does not.
Why does a bespoke kitchen cost more than one from a national retailer?
Two things. The first is that a modular kitchen is built from a fixed set of cabinet widths, usually in 100mm steps, so the design is the job of fitting your room to those sizes. Ours are cut to the room, which takes design time and workshop time that a stock range has already spent once across thousands of kitchens.
The second is construction. A modular door is normally lay-on, sitting over the cabinet front. An in-frame door hangs inside a solid timber frame, which is a joinery job and takes considerably longer. The difference is worth reading about before you decide, because it is where a lot of the money goes.
How does this compare with a Howdens or a Wren kitchen?
Honestly, at the lower end it does not, and we would rather say so. If your budget is under £10,000 then a good modular kitchen fitted well is better value than anything we could make, and there are people in Doncaster who will do that properly.
Where we start to make sense is when the room is awkward, when you want a finish or a colour a range does not carry, or when you want the thing to still be tight in twenty years. That is a genuinely different purchase and it is priced like one.
What is a realistic budget for a new kitchen?
For a bespoke one in this part of Yorkshire, £14,000 to £45,000 supplied and fitted covers most of what we do, with the larger open-plan jobs going beyond that. Add worktops and appliances on top if you are comparing against a quote that included them.
Set aside a contingency as well. In an older house something is nearly always hiding behind the old units, and a rewire or a bit of replastering is a real cost that has nothing to do with the kitchen.
Do you take a deposit, and when do I pay the rest?
A deposit of 30% on order, 40% when the cabinetry is ready to leave the workshop, and the balance on completion. You are paying for materials and workshop time as they happen rather than handing over the lot up front.
Ring 01302 350055 if you want the exact stages before you commit to a survey.
Is the quote fixed?
The quote for what we make and fit is fixed once you have signed the drawing. It changes if you change the drawing, which people do and which is fine.
What we cannot fix in advance is what is behind your existing kitchen. If the wall turns out to be plasterboard on batten where we expected brick, we will tell you what that costs before we carry on rather than putting it on the final invoice.
Get a real number for your kitchen
The bands above are a starting point. A quotation needs someone standing in your room with a tape measure, and that visit is free.
Ring 01302 350055 or book a visit and we will come out.
The workshop
Unit 1 & 2, Bootham Lane Industrial Estate, Bootham LaneDunscroft, Doncaster
South Yorkshire DN7 4JU
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