SUMMARY

• Basic Price £450
• includes two consultations at your home with our designer Marion
• the first meeting is to discuss the kitchen and your ideas - and to collect measurements etc.
• the second meeting is to present our first ideas, discuss them with you and show you your kitchen on the laptop ... before coming up with a finalised plan
• the finalised plan, visualisations and basic unit list are sent to you as a pdf file - by e-mail
• payment - is by cheque/cash on the day of the initial visit - please e-mail or phone for an appointment

• suitable for:
• those of you who like to discuss your ideas in person and want to participate in the design process 
• kitchens which are complicated - with odd shapes or nooks and crannies
• rooms which are to be extended where there are several options for the position of kitchen
• those of you who are unsure whether to extend the kitchen or not

• There are extra charges (see bottom of the page) for:

• travelling times of more than 2 hours from Nottingham
• visits to London (within the M25)
• large kitchens - more than 25 sq.m - or designing more than one room (utility room etc)
• sending you a hard copy of the plan with glossy pictures - by post
• more than one or two design ideas (apart from minor alterations)
• bespoke or inset-framed kitchen furniture - which involves tailoring individual units and doors. 

Taking advantage of our Gold Kitchen Design Service is likely to be quicker and easier - for you - than trying to explain what you like, and what you don't like, about our ideas, by e-mail ... but obviously, to us, it's a lot more time consuming to come out on a second appointment ... hence the extra cost. It's perfectly possible to modify your design(s) without a second visit (and to come up with a design in the first place, without an initial visit) ... most of our plans have been successfully carried out in either of those ways ... but the ideal is to discuss the kitchen with you and show you your plan on the computer.

That's the laptop in our office, of course ... we expect it to be in much more comfortable surroundings in your house!

UPGRADING FROM OUR SILVER TO OUR GOLD KITCHEN DESIGN SERVICE:

Unfortunately, if you decide to upgrade from our Silver Kitchen Design Service to the Gold ... then there is an extra £250 to pay. In other words the total is £500, rather than £450. This applies only if you have already had your designs from the Silver Service finalised ... and the extra charge is, of course, because we will need to do two sets of finalised plans, in that case.

An upgrade of this sort is sometimes necessary for large kitchens designed from architects plans - when the actual building work involves alterations to the space - or for complicated extensions where, for instance, several rooms are being knocked into one, and the amount of wall remaining in the room changes.

The kitchen below required an upgrade for just that latter reason (you can see the various wall pillars and ceiling beams in the pictures). The final room is a slightly odd shape but will make a great family kitchen.

Here's a computer drawing first, followed by some photorealistic visualistions:

EXTRA CHARGES ...

are the same as for the Silver Service (at the bottom of the page) ... we charge extra for:

• sending a hard copy of your kitchen design with glossy pictures £25
• travelling times of more than 2 hours from Nottingham £100 (£50 per return journey)
• travelling to London (within the M25) £100 (£50 per return journey)
• particularly time consuming designs (complicated or large rooms and more sophisticated kitchen styles such as inset-framed doors). The extra time is charged at £25 per hour.

We have yet to charge more than £750 for any kitchen design, however expensive and complicated the kitchen! That compares rather favourably with the 10% commission that many in-house designers get paid. You won't get very much complicated and expensive kitchen for £7,500 these days.