Excessive costs for the kitchen?!

I would assemble Ikea kitchens myself anyway, that was fun. What was annoying, however, was the baseboard, for example. I set up about 3.5 m L kitchen for the basement apartment for 2000 euros, fixed and finished. Handleless with appliances partly from Ikea and partly online. And it's cooked in daily.

With furniture, Ikea also sells very well, or stoke, they somehow never lose their value.

Or Maxicosi with station purchased as an offer and almost sold for the same price. In general, children's items are easy to sell.

However, it is quite unfair to compare the price of a self-built kitchen with the price of a fully assembled one.

The only stupid thing about the kitchen studio: their non-transparent pricing policy doesn't even allow me to buy the kitchen without assembly! I am quite sure that every Nolte, Nobilia and so on could come much closer in price to IKEA if the prices were as transparent as they are there. Then I would just ignore the 600€ extra charge for the Le Mans cabinet, the 200€/lfm for assembly as well as the included 1000€ warranty surcharge for the measurement.

But since I can't do that, in the end there is only one thing: "I'm not paying 16k when I can get the fun of assembling it myself at IKEA for 8k!"

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We will make three more appointments for kitchen offers, among others at Höffner, and see what comes out of it. If the price is still (in our opinion) too high, we will contact the companies in Poland

I would assemble Ikea kitchens myself anyway, that was fun. What was annoying, for example, is the baseboard. I set up about 3.5 m L kitchen for a 2000 euro rent-ready granny flat. Handleless with appliances partly from Ikea and partly online. And it is cooked on daily.

I see it the same way.
In the past (always these sayings from the old people...) when building a house, much more was done by hand yourself. Back then I laid my first tiles (crooked), boarded the roof, built walls, painted of course, etc., and made a lot of mistakes.
But at some point you learn something, become bolder and more confident. Our kitchen installer doesn’t like the boring "screwing" work so much and so it fits. By now, assembling Ikea kitchens alone is no problem anymore (except for details), just like laying engineered wood flooring etc.
There is always a first time and something self-built has a different value for me.
But you absolutely have to realistically assess your limits, that’s why I would never tile my bathroom.

But it is quite unfair to compare the price of a self-assembled kitchen with the price of a fully assembled one.

You naturally have to add the real costs for transport, assembly and other circumstances. In case of problems, Ikea may not come to the house but possibly the chosen kitchen installer. You have to assess all that for yourself.
The service at Ikea worked well for us. A thick countertop with aluminum that was mistakenly measured by Ikea was charged to us at zero or replaced. That was easier than I ever expected.

Their non-transparent pricing policy doesn’t even allow me to buy the kitchen without assembly!

I never had this idea but maybe it would be possible after all to just buy the kitchen and do (or have done) the assembly yourself? That would be interesting and the dealer would also be free from some obligations, since he only acts as a seller/intermediary.

I had a truly comparable kitchen planned (same number and size of cabinets) by two kitchen studios, without appliances and with separately listed installation costs. The cheapest was one at 13,000 EUR all in, meaning only wood with QK countertop. So 100% compared to IKEA without appliances but including QK countertop (approx. 6,600 EUR).

I would exclusively look in the area of high-quality products/brands because the owners of these items usually handled them with care.

but this does not apply to the brand Ikea. I myself am involved in the selling and buying of Ikea furniture, which is at a very low price level. The argument that holds more weight here is that it is already assembled or is sold out at Ikea itself.

Try reselling brand jeans that you bought in-store for €100 as like new,

Also with electronics, child seats, brand clothing in general, and much more, you don’t suffer losses that make you cry for weeks.

Brands work; Ikea is excluded from this just like Roller and co. Also when it comes to kitchens.