ᐅ Handleless kitchen fronts, good quality and affordable – which manufacturer?

Created on: 2 Mar 2020 17:21

Hello everyone,

we are currently looking into the kitchen for our newly built single-family home. After the first visits to suppliers (2 large chains and 1 small studio), the general conclusion is: a frustrating black box with no price transparency – the estimates were often well above the stated budget, and none of the appointments included a written quote to prevent easy comparison.

My question is: which provider/manufacturer would you consider for the following requirements:

Kitchen layout: G-shaped kitchen, no wall cabinets
Design: handleless kitchen
Kitchen length: just under 11m (36 feet), all base cabinets except for 2 tall cabinets for fridge-freezer combo and oven + microwave
Worktop height: 90cm (35 inches)
Worktop: integrated into window frame, replacing the windowsill. Option 1: laminate, thickness approx. 25mm (1 inch). Option 2: engineered stone, thickness approx. 25mm (1 inch).
Front price category: PG 3 or PG 4, real matte lacquer
Splashback: matte glass

Target price would be under €6,500 (including sink and faucet combined about €400 online) and laminate worktop, without appliances, including delivery and installation (kitchen and externally sourced appliances), so roughly €600 (about $660) per meter.

Current quote for electrical appliances: €5,180 gross including delivery to curbside.

Do you think this is achievable, or do we need to lower our requirements (fronts price group / appliances) to stay under €12,000? At Ikea, we would be around €3,500 plus assembly without appliances, but their selection of handleless fronts does not suit us.

Thank you very much for your advice.

tomtom7917 Jun 2020 17:21

#43

Try using different browsers.

You can definitely plan for dead corners.

VOXTORP is more expensive, but you save on handles.

There’s also a lot of input in the Facebook group.

For example, I find Ringelhut very nice—I used it for our living room furniture.

White, modern sideboard with black top in front of white wall; plants on left and right.

ypg17 Jun 2020 17:56

#44

You plan dead corners by leaving out the corner and later attaching a countertop support bracket to the wall with a board.

Anmacatili17 Jun 2020 19:20

#45

Is it possible to select the countertop support and the "board" in the planner?

Tolentino17 Jun 2020 19:31

#46

Under the countertop, the corner countertop is the first part. I haven’t yet checked whether all the necessary mounting parts are automatically included. For now, this is just for visual purposes.
I would go to the IKEA consultation with the design planned in the planner anyway. Or have it checked by an expert...

ypg17 Jun 2020 21:17

#47

Anmacatili schrieb:

Is it possible to select the countertop support and the "board" in the planner?

The piece of board is available everywhere, mainly as leftover pieces at the hardware store.

pagoni202017 Jun 2020 22:27

#48

bazinga schrieb:

Thank you very much for the photos and especially the details about the appliances you bought outside of IKEA. Our new build is just starting now, and it will still be more than a year before we move in, but kitchen planning has already begun.

Your kitchen color choice matches our vision. From what I understand in the product description, the Ringhult front cannot be used handleless, right? We were originally considering the Voxtorp front (matte white) as a handleless option. We could also warm up to your choice, which would be cheaper as well:

Veddinge front (40x80cm (16x31 inches)): €14 plus Billsboro handle (€13) totals €27
Voxtorp front (40x80cm (16x31 inches)): currently on offer for €47 instead of €58

This price difference applies across all sizes. I’ll calculate it right away in the IKEA kitchen planner. Otherwise, I can also highly recommend the IKEA kitchen planner; it’s easy to get the hang of quickly.

Do you have any issues with fingerprints on the fronts, and how easy are they to maintain? We plan to visit IKEA during the week soon to see the Veddinge front in person.

True, Ringhult requires handles; we debated this for a long time. In the end, we really like it and chose lightweight aluminum handles (which are no longer sold exactly the same way but can still be found online through dealers). We eventually moved away from handleless fronts, mainly for better usability (at least in our opinion).
Even though everything is high-gloss white—including the surface of the thick countertop, which is also high-gloss white—we’ve had no problems, which was a bit of a concern initially.
At the time, I think the Ringhult was also on sale, which made a big difference. There was also a special promotion above a certain purchase amount; we gave the cooktop to the kids as a gift. We didn’t like the standard backsplashes very much, so in one case, we used a single large kitchen front in a different wood color as a backsplash (see picture), and here we simply used a white lacquered Ringhult front as a backsplash, which, in my opinion, looks very chic.
Otherwise, you can combine all kinds of backsplashes, from lacquered MDF, tiles, glass, or other materials, which we didn’t get from IKEA. We still used the overhead cabinet lighting made from light panels, which I really liked; we don’t have upper cabinets here anymore, so we no longer use them. The light panels sold almost immediately on classified ads.

ᐅ Handleless kitchen fronts, good quality and affordable – which manufacturer?

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