The kitchen guide
The questions we get asked every week in the showroom, answered with numbers and without the fluff. If we do not know something, we say so.
Money
Eight out of ten questions that reach the showroom are about money, and almost all of them have a number behind them. Here are the ranges line by line, what a quote should include, how to compare two of them and what to check on finance.
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What a kitchen costs in 2026
Real ranges per line item, and where each figure comes from.
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What a kitchen quote should and should not include
The checklist to run through before signing anything.
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How to compare two kitchen quotes
Where that €3,000 gap really comes from.
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Financing a kitchen: what to check before you sign
Why the monthly payment is the worst number to decide on.
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Measurements and space
Centimetres. Standard module sizes, the minimum room width each layout needs, and what really gains room in a small kitchen.
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Kitchen islands: the minimum dimensions
When one really fits, and when it is a peninsula.
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Small kitchens: what actually gains space
Six changes, and what each one buys you.
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Standard kitchen unit dimensions
The full table, module by module and aperture by aperture.
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Which layout fits: L-shaped, U-shaped, single run or island
Tell me how wide your kitchen is and I will tell you what to rule out.
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Opening the kitchen onto the living room
The technical part, which is the part nobody covers.
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Deciding
The decisions you cannot undo: the worktop material, whether a German-made kitchen is worth the premium and what a ten-year guarantee actually covers.
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Worktops: laminate, compact, porcelain, quartz or stone
Five materials, five behaviours, five price brackets.
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German kitchens: what actually makes the difference
The standards, the tolerances and the part that is just marketing.
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Kitchen guarantees: what they actually cover
Three years by law, ten by contract: not the same thing.
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Doors: melamine, laminate, lacquer, timber or glass
What each finish takes, and which one shows every fingerprint.
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How to clean each finish, and what never to use
And the five products that should not be in your kitchen.
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Extraction, light and power
The extractor, the lighting and the sockets are the last things decided and the first things missed. Airflow, lumens and the wiring an induction hob needs.
The fitting
What happens between signing and cooking. The week-by-week calendar, what to have ready on fitting day and what changes if you leave the sink where it is.
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How long a kitchen takes, week by week
The real calendar, and the days you will be without a kitchen.
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What to have ready before the fitters arrive
The day-before checklist, so you do not lose a day.
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Refitting a kitchen without changing the layout
When leaving everything where it is makes sense.
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Floor or units: which goes in first
The right order, and the one case where it reverses.
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Do you need a permit to replace a kitchen in Spain?
And what you have to tell the owners association before you start.
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Shall we look at it with your kitchen on screen?
An hour in the showroom, your kitchen on screen and the price fixed the same day. No commitment, and no follow-up calls unless you want them.