Where to find the best-value Japandi kitchens
If you’re looking for a new kitchen, one of the options you may consider is a Japandi kitchen. Combining the most attractive elements of both Japanese and Scandinavian styles, these have increased in popularity recently. Many outlets supply them, but where can you find the best-value Japandi kitchens?
Japandi kitchens from the high-street chains and trade-only suppliers
For most people, the first port of call is likely to be one of the big high-street chains. Whether you go for Wren, Magnet or Wickes, they’re familiar names, and there’s probably one near you. Alternatively, you might go through your builder, who can use one of the trade-only suppliers such as Howdens, Benchmarx or Magnet Trade.
Besides convenience, the big selling-point of these companies is that their kitchens are cheap. Unfortunately, though, that doesn’t just apply to their prices — the kitchens are cheap in quality, too. A Japandi kitchen from one of these suppliers is a false economy, because it won’t last very long. Within a few years, you’ll be ripping it out and putting in another one. As the old saying goes, “buy cheap, buy twice”
The other problem with the high-street chains and trade-only suppliers is that their designs are usually poor. They tend to design kitchens using a one-size-fits-all approach that rarely makes good use of the space available.
Japandi kitchens from a high-end bespoke supplier
At the other end of the scale, you could try one of the high-end bespoke suppliers for your Japandi kitchen. There are a number of these — the best-known include companies like Roundhouse and Sola Kitchens.
If you go to one of these suppliers, you’ll get a superb kitchen that will last for many years. Besides being extremely high quality, they’ll design your kitchen to your individual requirements. You’ll have a kitchen that makes the absolute best use of the space you have.
The downside, as might be expected, is the cost — they all charge a small fortune. They typically quote about four times the price of what places like Wren, Magnet, Wickes and Howdens charge for the units.
Japandi kitchens from a smaller, lesser-known supplier
Besides the high-street chains, trade-only suppliers and high-end bespoke suppliers, there are many independent kitchen showrooms who sell Japandi kitchens.
The kitchens these showrooms sell vary substantially in quality. So, some of them are no better quality than the chains and trade-only suppliers, where as others are just as good-quality as the high-end bespoke suppliers.
It’s a similar story when it comes to price. So, some of these kitchens cost similar to the high-street chains and trade-only suppliers, where as others cost just as much as the high-end bespoke suppliers.
Many of the kitchens sold by Independents that cost similar to the chains and trade-only suppliers, are no better quality than the chains and trade-only suppliers. However, not all of them are. Some are much higher-quality.
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