What a bespoke fitted kitchen really costs in Edinburgh and Glasgow: an honest £10,000 to £30,000+ range, what moves the price, and where to spend.
Ask a kitchen company what a new kitchen costs and you will usually get a form to fill in, a callback, and a price that only appears once someone has sat at your kitchen table. We would rather just tell you.
Most of the full kitchens we design and fit across Edinburgh and Glasgow land between £10,000 and £30,000+. That is the honest range, published where you can read it before you have given anyone your phone number.
A range is not a quote, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is show you what that money actually buys, what moves a kitchen from one end of the range to the other, and where it is worth spending. By the end you should know whether we are the right fit for your project, which is the point of publishing a number at all.
The Honest Answer First
£10,000 to £30,000+ covers the kitchen as a finished thing: design time, cabinetry, worktops and installation, planned and fitted as one job rather than quoted as a list of parts.
Why a range rather than a price list? Because every kitchen we make is designed for one specific room. Two kitchens with the same number of cupboards can be priced very differently once the door construction, worktop material and the state of the room are on the table. A number on the internet is a guess until someone has measured your walls.
So here is the deal we can stand behind: an honest range up front, and then a quote that is itemised and fixed before any work begins. No allowances that quietly grow, and no price that changes shape halfway through.
Where the Money Actually Goes
Tall housings, built-in appliances and deep drawer runs: the parts of a kitchen that carry most of the budget, in a Lucente kitchen we fitted in Clydebank.
Cabinetry takes the biggest share. The number of units matters, but construction matters more. A wrapped door such as Rydal or Cartmel gives you the look of painted timber in a finish that shrugs off steam; a solid ash shaker like Cambridge or Windsor, painted to order, sits further up the scale; the in-frame look of our Contour doors sits further up again. Handleless has its own arithmetic: a J-pull groove is machined into the door itself, while a true handleless kitchen adds an aluminium rail behind every front. You can compare all four collections in our kitchen range.
Worktops are the second lever. Material first: our range is built around Corian and its solid surface relatives, alongside recycled glass, and decors within one material sit at different price points. Then quantity and detail: islands and long runs add material, while cutouts, drainer grooves and coved upstands add fabrication time. There is a full breakdown in our worktop range.
Appliances stretch the range more than people expect. Some clients keep appliances they already love; others re-equip completely. The spread between a single built-in oven and a full suite around a range cooker is one of the largest variables in any kitchen budget, which is why we ask about cooking habits before we talk cupboards.
Islands are a kitchen within the kitchen. An island is extra cabinetry, extra worktop, often a relocated hob or sink, and sometimes reinforcement for seating overhangs. It can absolutely earn its keep, and we have written honestly about when an island works and when a peninsula is the smarter call.
The room itself sends the last invoice. Moving plumbing, gas or sockets, taking down a partition wall, levelling a floor, re-plastering after strip-out: none of this is cabinetry, all of it belongs in an honest quote. It is also the part a glossy price list never mentions.
What Takes a Kitchen from One End of the Range to the Other
Towards the £10,000 end: a compact or galley layout that keeps services where they are, wrapped doors, a restrained worktop specification and appliances carried over or chosen modestly.
Towards £30,000 and beyond: a large or fully reworked room, painted timber or in-frame cabinetry, premium solid surface worktops with shaped detailing, a full appliance suite and an island with seating.
The thing that does not change across that range is the way the kitchen is designed and fitted. A smaller budget buys fewer cabinets and simpler finishes; it does not buy less care. We would rather design you a modest kitchen properly than stretch you into a bigger one badly.
Where It Is Worth Spending, and Where You Can Save
Spend on the things you touch every day and the things that are hardest to redo. Drawer runners and hinges live a hard life for twenty years. Worktop templating and fitting decide whether the whole kitchen reads as considered or almost-right. Installation is never the place to economise: a mid-range door hung true beats a premium door hung badly, every time.
Save, without regret, on the finish family. The wrapped shaker doors in our range exist precisely because they give the painted-timber look for less, and a matt or gloss slab door delivers a clean contemporary front without any premium construction behind it. Keeping the sink, hob and boiler where they are saves real money in any renovation. And an island is not compulsory: a well-planned peninsula or a better run of worktop often does the same job in a smaller room.
Does Edinburgh or Glasgow Change the Price?
The city does not move the price. The building does.
Both cities are full of Victorian and Edwardian stock: tenement flats and terraced houses with generous rooms, high ceilings, and floors and walls that have not been square for a century. Kitchens in these buildings reward proper surveying, because the prep work, from levelling floors to chasing services through solid walls, is where quotes in older properties earn their keep. A new-build in a modern estate is usually the opposite: square room, easy access, minimal prep.
We design and fit kitchens across both cities and everywhere between, and the process is the same either way: measure the room honestly, design for the building it is in, and put the prep in the quote rather than in a mid-project phone call. The same honesty applies when the brief includes access: our guide to accessible kitchen design in Scotland covers how we design for seated cooks, limited reach and wheelchair users, priced as design time rather than a surcharge.
How You Get a Real Number
The CAD design for the same Clydebank kitchen shown above: this drawing became that room.
The route from this page to a fixed price is short. It starts with a free design consultation, usually over a video call: you tell us about the room and how you cook, we tell you honestly what your budget can do. From there we measure, design your kitchen in CAD so you can see it before you commit to anything, and put a number on every line.
The quote you sign is itemised and fixed. If that sounds like the way you would want to buy a kitchen, you already know what the next step is.
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Book a free design consultation and we’ll price your actual kitchen: your room, your layout, your finishes. Our designers work with clients across Edinburgh and Glasgow, and every quote is itemised and fixed before any work begins.