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

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.

Hi,
since I am currently dealing with a similar topic, I would be interested in your experience.
Did your planning work out? We are looking for something very similar with a maximum budget of 11,000€ (about $12,000).
Which suppliers did you request quotes from? Local or larger retailers?
How open were the suppliers to the option of buying the kitchen appliances yourself but having them installed by the supplier?

Thank you!
Best regards

Sounds more like Ikea prices. And just a quick unsolicited remark: a G-shaped kitchen is the worst possible layout (expensive and impractical as a whole package), unless the room doesn’t allow any other option.

Could you explain that in more detail, specifically why it is impractical?
For example, we need a very large kitchen because the utility room is small and there is no basement.

Anmacatili schrieb:

I started a thread about this yesterday because the “G Murks” is currently being planned

Good idea! A G-shaped layout has 3 corners. If someone is standing at the corner cabinet, they also block the adjacent cabinet around the corner. Corners may look practical but actually aren’t. You can’t open the drawers in the corners at the same time. And if two people are in the kitchen, and person 1 is blocking a cabinet and wants to step aside, they end up “trapped” in the G. With a double-run kitchen, it’s easier to step to the side without having to leave the kitchen area completely.
Corners also tend to be a bit more expensive than no corners. They require panels, and kitchen consultants often recommend (expensive but rather impractical) corner cabinets.

It would be great if you end up with a “proper” kitchen. I also planned my kitchen with the help of this forum and I’m extremely happy with it. It’s the best kitchen layout I’ve experienced in terms of workflow. And I’ve also built an IKEA kitchen myself. That’s fairly “simple” (simple is relative—building one cabinet is easier. But a kitchen is no rocket science).

Thank you @Bertram100 for the explanation. Everything is understandable so far. However, the current design is visually appealing to us, definitely. We’ll see if we can possibly eliminate the corners or maybe switch to an L-shape with an island.

Did you plan your kitchen using the Ikea planner, or did you eventually buy and assemble an Ikea kitchen there? We also really like the style of a certain very well-known Ikea kitchen, but I’m quite hesitant about the assembly and believe that having Ikea assemble it themselves is quite expensive.