Kitchen price comparison - Fair or fantasy?

Payday is of course completely right, and everything else is just sugarcoating prices. A kitchen in a household of two to four people does not need to have the quality or the durability of a kitchen in a school camp. We now have one from Wellmann, and after good 15 years it is still fully okay. Only the appliances were replaced. They of course did not last 15 years, but about 10 years as well. If you take flooring as a comparison, vinyl for living areas is defined with a 0.2 mm wear layer. Installing a more expensive version in a bedroom is nonsense. Then there are 0.3 mm. Sufficient for living rooms, hallways, light commercial use, such as nail studios. Then 0.55 and 0.8. The latter is suitable for areas with forklifts. 0.8 mm in a bedroom would be complete nonsense. For a single-family house with its cooking frequency, a Wellmann, Ikea, Nobilia is completely sufficient. More would be like a Landrover in inner-city traffic. Karsten

With this kind of reasoning, you can criticize everything. I’m building a house to have a "good standard for me." I don’t want just a house with 100 sqm (that’s enough), nor do I want laminate flooring (that’s sufficient), nor do I want the standard bathroom fittings (that also suffice).

Likewise, I don’t want an Ikea kitchen for €4,000 (of course, that’s enough too), but it simply doesn’t meet my demands for my own house, both in terms of appearance (high-quality fronts are simply not available there) and functionality (for example, 2 ovens, one of them a DGC, which alone costs over €1,000 online). You don’t need it, but I want to have it, because it’s great!

If you have to save on everything, okay, sure you can convince yourself that the cheap stuff is fine, but if you can afford it, and the things bring added value (of course this is subjective), why not? The example with the car fits perfectly… you can also drive an Opel Corsa… but you don’t have to.

With that argument, you can criticize everything. I build a house to have a "good" standard for me. I don't want just a house with 100 sqm (that's enough), nor do I want laminate (that's enough), nor do I want the standard bathroom fixtures (that's enough).

Just as little do I want an IKEA kitchen for €4,000 (of course, that's enough too), but it simply does not meet my demands for my own house, both in terms of appearance (high-quality fronts are simply not available there) and functionality (for example, two ovens, one of which is a DGC, which alone costs over €1,000 online). You don’t need it, but I want to have it because it's great!

If you have to save on everything, OK, sure, you can justify the cheap stuff for yourself, but if you can afford it, and the things bring added value (of course, this is subjective), why not? The car example mentioned fits perfectly... you can also drive an Opel Corsa... but you don't have to.

Being able to afford that was not the point of the argument – it was more about the fact that you can buy a kitchen even with a tight budget, in which you can also live/cook well.

Those who have higher demands or simply don't know what to do with their money are welcome to spend 20k+.

They also have them for 1,000 at Poco. But it also has a lot to do with taste and aesthetics. And I'll just claim now that the kitchen Karsten showed is not a great bargain. You can probably get it for maybe 10% more in any furniture store. After all, it is absolutely straightforward. However, I will get a different service at the furniture store/kitchen studio. For example, the doors will be readjusted within the warranty period. If the waste system stops working, someone will come and fix it. That just won't happen at IKEA.

The argument wasn’t about being able to afford that – it was more about the fact that even with a tight budget, you can buy a kitchen where you can live and cook well.

If someone has higher demands or simply doesn’t know what to do with their money, they are welcome to spend 20k+

And that’s exactly the point: this argument applies to every decision when building a house. You can go with the standard, or you can go beyond that. And even with the kitchen (and this applies to almost everything), you can get significantly more in terms of aesthetics and functionality with more money.

The kitchen shown here is just standard. As my predecessor said, you can get the same including installation for a similar price at the kitchen studio (just with cheaper fronts, a standard countertop, semi-basic appliances without frills, no custom sizes or cabinets, etc.). It works, but as said, that’s not my idea of an open kitchen in my single-family home. It always comes down to: a matter of taste.

And that is exactly the point: This argument applies to every decision in house construction. You can take the standard, or you can go beyond that. And also with the kitchen, you can (and this applies to almost everything) get significantly more in terms of appearance and functionality with more money.

The kitchen shown here is just standard. As my predecessor says, you can get it including installation for a similar price at the kitchen studio (just with cheaper fronts, standard countertops, semi appliances without frills, no special sizes or cabinets, etc.). It works, but as I said, it is not my idea of an open kitchen in my single-family house. The point keeps coming back: matter of taste

Not just a matter of taste but rather a question of priorities - some things would please me too, but I find the prices outrageous/unjustified