Handleless kitchen front, good and affordable - which manufacturer?

Hello everyone,

we are currently dealing with the topic of the kitchen for our newly built single-family house. After the first visits to dealers (2x large chains & 1x small studio), the generally known realization: awful black box without price transparency - prices were sometimes calculated significantly above the stated budget, and no written offer was made at any of the appointments, so that comparison was simply not possible.

Regarding the question: which provider/manufacturer would you look at when it comes to the following requirements:

Kitchen shape: G-kitchen, without wall cabinets
Design: handleless kitchen
Kitchen meters: just under 11m, all base cabinets except for 2 tall cabinets for fridge-freezer combo and oven+microwave
Working height: 90cm
Worktop: runs into window frame, replaces window sill. Option 1: laminate, thickness approx. 25mm. Option 2: artificial stone, thickness approx. 25mm.
Front price group: PG 3 or PG 4, real lacquer matte
Niche cladding/splashback: glass matte

Target price would be under €6,500 incl. sink & tap (together approx. €400 online) and laminate worktop without appliances including delivery and installation (kitchen and "external appliances"), so just under €600 per meter.

Current offer for electrical appliances: €5,180 gross incl. delivery to curbside.

Do you consider this feasible or do we have to lower the requirements here (fronts PG/appliances) to stay under €12k? At Ikea we would end up at around €3,500 + assembly without appliances, but here the selection of handleless fronts is not to our taste.

Many thanks for your tips

Hi, since I am currently dealing with this topic in a similar way, I would be interested in your experiences. Did your planning work out? We are looking for something very similar for a maximum of €11,000. Which dealers did you get offers from? Local or larger dealers? How open were the dealers to the option that you get the kitchen appliances yourself but have them installed by them? Thanks! Best regards

Sounds more like Ikea prices. And unsolicited remark: a G-kitchen is the worst possible configuration (expensive and impractical - as an overall package ), unless the room allows nothing else.

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

I opened a thread yesterday because the "G Murks" is currently being planned

Good idea! A G has 3 corners. If someone is standing at the corner cabinet, they also block the adjacent cabinet around the corner. Corners only look like they are practical, but in reality they are not at all. You also can’t open the drawers in the corners at the same time. And if there are two people and Person 1 is blocking a cabinet and wants to step aside, the person is "trapped" in the G. With a two-line kitchen you can more easily step aside without having to go "completely away."
Corners also tend to be a bit more expensive than no corners. They need panels and the kitchen consultant often recommends (expensive but quite impractical) corner cabinets.

It would be nice if you still get a "decent" kitchen. I also planned my kitchen with the help of the forum and am tremendously thrilled. The best kitchen (in terms of workflow) that I know of. And I also did Ikea with DIY. That’s quite "simple" (simple is relative. Assembling one cabinet is easier. But a kitchen is not rocket science either).

Thanks for the explanation. Everything is understandable so far. Nevertheless, the current planning is "visually" appealing to us, definitely. We'll see how we might possibly get rid of the corners or maybe switch to an L-shape with a peninsula.

Did you plan your kitchen with the Ikea planner or did you eventually buy and assemble an Ikea kitchen there? We also really like a certain very well-known Ikea kitchen style, but I am extremely hesitant about the assembly and believe the assembly service at Ikea itself is quite expensive.