Buy the kitchen more than a year before completion?

maybe I expressed myself wrong. he wanted a down payment of TE 11, the remaining TE 14 then divided again into TE 10 according to measurement and TE 4 on delivery

Okay, yes - never ever do.

Our kitchen costs €10,000 without electrical appliances and the sink. A down payment of €3,000 has been agreed upon. Insolvency can happen with any trade. With €3,000, that would also be very bad and annoying, but not to the extent that the entire house project fails because of it. Without a down payment, I would probably prefer it as well, but you also have to understand the kitchen studios, who also advance the costs with the planning, etc. I also see it a bit like an installment payment, of which I have already paid €3,000, so that in one year I only have to pay €7,000.

We have a prefabricated house, so we planned and bought our kitchen before the creation of the working plans, then the kitchen plan could be taken into account immediately and we already had that matter settled. No down payment was required; only after the measurement, that is 6 weeks before delivery, 80% was paid, the rest after acceptance, so quite fair.

In hindsight, that was perfect because we really had it settled and at the measurement the exact dimensions were checked. The kitchen now fits perfectly. However, the prerequisite for this is having a planner who really knows his stuff because at that time you can’t really imagine what it will look like. After the shell construction, I thought to myself at times, "Oh dear, it could be pretty tight in the kitchen," but afterwards it turned out perfectly.

By the way, among others, we also inquired at Küchenquelle about an appointment at home (which would have been very practical with a child at home), but their phone response really blew us away: "We do not schedule customer appointments without a building permit." We did not have one at that time either. When we asked, they just said that kitchen offers from potential customers had been used for the building permit, but then no order came, so they no longer do it. However, she could not explain to me what kitchen plans or offers had to do with the building permit...

I suspect that people used the kitchen planning for the floor plan planning and then later simply bought the kitchen elsewhere. So planning services without a contract.

we went to the kitchen studio with our shell construction measurements and ordered the kitchen there in May 2015 (start of construction 09/15), it was assembled in April 2016, we had to pay 80% down payment 5 weeks before the delivery date, i.e. only in March 2016.

No reservation fee or anything like that, the 11 months in between were not a problem