The short answer, for a typical Wiltshire kitchen: replacing the doors and drawer fronts costs from £6,000 to £10,000 fitted. Adding new worktops takes it to roughly £11,000 to £18,000. A complete refresh, with doors, worktops, sink and tap, handles, hinges and improved internal storage, runs from £15,000 to £20,000.
Those are the bands I quote in Corsham, Chippenham, Calne, Melksham, Devizes, Marlborough and the surrounding villages. They include everything: design, making, dismantling the old parts, fitting and taking the waste away.
Below I have broken each level down so you can see what your money buys, and what pushes a price towards the top of a band.
Level one: doors and drawer fronts only, from £6,000 to £10,000
If your cabinet carcasses are sound and the layout works, new doors and drawer fronts change almost everything you can see. This is the most common refurbishment I carry out and the best value by a wide margin.
Where you sit in the range depends on three things: how many doors and fronts there are, the style you choose, and the finish. A compact galley kitchen with fifteen items sits near the bottom. A large family kitchen with thirty items, plus end panels and a dresser unit, sits near the top.
The price includes new hinges and handles, accurate templating of every opening, and fitting and adjusting each door so it sits square and closes properly.
Spraying instead of replacing: from £120 to £150 per item
If the doors themselves are in good condition and you simply dislike the colour, spraying is cheaper than replacing them. I charge from £120 to £150 per removable item, meaning each door, drawer front or panel that can be taken off and brought back to my workshop.
Cabinet frames, end panels and anything that has to be sprayed in place cost more, because your home needs masking and protecting from overspray before any work starts.
Spraying does not suit every kitchen. Foil-wrapped MDF doors that are lifting or bubbling, doors with water damage, or a shape you have never liked are all better replaced. I will tell you plainly which category yours fall into during the Home Design Visit.
Level two: new work surfaces, from £5,000 to £8,000
New worktops are the single biggest visual change after the doors. Quartz, granite or solid timber costs from £5,000 to £8,000 including laser templating in your home, fabrication and professional installation.
The variables are the run length, the number of cut-outs for sinks and hobs, and whether you want upstands, window sills or a matching splashback in the same material.
A recent Wiltshire project replaced dark granite with a lighter, subtly veined quartz. Nothing else in the room changed and the kitchen looked ten years younger.
Level three: a complete refresh, from £15,000 to £20,000
A full refresh covers replacement or sprayed doors and drawer fronts, new worktops, a new sink and tap, new handles and hinges, improved internal storage such as deep drawers and pull-outs, and all the dismantling and installation.
Most kitchens of this kind are finished in around two weeks, and you keep the use of your kitchen for most of that time because the carcasses stay in place.
For comparison, a custom kitchen with a new layout is generally from £20,000 to £30,000, and fully bespoke, hand made cabinetry from £30,000 to £50,000 and above. If your layout is fundamentally wrong, spending on a refresh only postpones the real fix.
What pushes a Wiltshire quotation up
Period properties are the usual reason. Uneven walls, sloping floors and non-standard openings mean nothing can be ordered from a catalogue, so more parts are made to measure in the workshop.
Other cost drivers are painted finishes in more than one colour, in-frame doors, solid timber rather than painted MDF, larger appliances that need new housings, and any electrical or plumbing changes carried out by the trades I work alongside.
Removing an old tiled splashback, making good the plaster behind it and repainting is a small cost that people frequently forget when budgeting.
How to get an accurate figure
Every price above is a guide. Two kitchens of identical size can differ by thousands once the doors are counted and the walls are checked, so I do not quote from photographs alone.
I offer a free Home Design Visit anywhere in Wiltshire and the surrounding counties. I measure the room, count every door and drawer front, talk through what is worth keeping and what is not, and send a written quotation with the work itemised so you can see exactly where the money goes.
You deal with one person throughout: I design the kitchen, make the cabinetry in my own workshop and fit it myself. There is no salesperson, no showroom overhead and no subcontracted fitting team.
