Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

There are auctions where you can buy new display kitchens very, very cheaply. Nobilia kitchens as well as other manufacturers for 2-3000 euros. You just have to be a little patient until something suitable is offered. But when ordering new from the kitchen studio, you pay ten times as much and also wait many months for delivery.

I wouldn’t spend 20 or 30k on a kitchen either.

The heating pump in my Bosch dishwasher fits in pretty much all other dishwashers. So the technology in dishwashers is mostly the same. Regardless of whether it’s a no-name brand or a brand manufacturer. You can just as well buy the cheapest. But since many people here are very brand-conscious, they just want to pay a lot of money for nothing.

If I couldn’t repair it myself – it’s always the same parts that break – I would have already had to buy and install the 3rd dishwasher by now. Within exactly 5 years.

that's not particularly little money for a used kitchen! You can definitely spend much less. If I had wanted a used kitchen, it would have been max. 3-4k including appliances.

Ours cost 350 €. Six years old. Almost all pull-out cabinets. That will be enough for the next few years and it's worlds better than the 25-year-old kitchen from our previous rental apartment :p

The current apartment didn't cost me anything at all - since I took it over for free! Anyone else even cheaper? ;)

Our student kitchen cost about €16,000 in 2015 after some negotiations. The list price was, I believe, around €25,000. Directly from the manufacturer in their own kitchen studio. All appliances from Siemens, Berbel hood and Ritter bread slicer and Lechner splash guard. In a U-shape 9 sqm room, all high gloss with handles. We are very satisfied and would probably do it the same way again. Above all, the storage space is great because one wall is completely full from top to bottom.

Just a question for the experts. Would it make sense to hire a carpenter/joiner to build a suitable kitchen? Completely without electrical appliances. Just specifying the appropriate openings and niches and then obtaining the electrical appliances yourself. Especially since it is said that the biggest price markups are applied to the electrical appliances.

interesting kitchen comments. It’s like flipping through a catalog, like the old Otto catalogs used to be, tapping on a kitchen, yep that’s the one, and ordering it. Only difference is, you just have to throw on a T-shirt but the kitchen has to provide a “service.” Some are satisfied with how the kitchen looks because they are young and inexperienced, others, mostly older, have already realized that there are practical and impractical kitchens and bling alone doesn’t help when cooking.

And those market criers “my kitchen only cost so and so much” remind me of my years in Singapore. A Chinese person opens their eyes in the morning and only sees $$$ signs. Because a life without how much did you pay for it is ALWAYS answered with I paid only xyz at this and this store. It’s part of their life, the constant competition with others, who got the best deal. Crazy.

And the funny thing is, none of the kitchens are identical in any way to the next, but nobody cares about that in the discussion here, as long as you can write, MY kitchen only cost so and so much, since no one can verify it anyway.

Also the question, should I just buy the wood from the carpenter and organize the rest myself, shows how little one knows about the product kitchen, and especially about what’s going on right now, like, will I still get a cooktop this year or do I have to cook soup on a portable induction plate for the next 2 years. Not to mention the dishwasher, there are only a few left with minimal equipment.

And when you see Kati's kitchen plan from the studio, you ask yourself, where should one work? Exactly where it would make sense, there’s a bench for the kids. But the kitchen fitter didn’t just pull that out of thin air, the client told him. He has to sell, so he pushes the bench in there. Once sold, the kitchen fitter obviously doesn’t care if the client can handle it, she wanted it that way.

And being surprised that the kitchen costs 30% more than the old one is naive. Is there anything that doesn’t cost 30% more? In the last 18 months people have also been willing to pay totally inflated house prices just to run with the herd. What do 3k more or less do? A drop in the ocean of general inflated prices.