how often to you renew your kitchen?

Ours is over 30 years old and frankly getting somewhat the worse for wear. There is a bad burn mark on the upstand behind the gas hob, caused when I first used a new, large sauté pan and didn’t realise that the straight side was touching it.

I now keep that sauté pan more or less permanently on that back hob, to hide the damage. ?

But the kitchen still functions fine, in that it produces meals, so I really CBA with all the monumental hassle of replacing it. We will have to eventually, when either the combi microwave or the big oven - both built in - finally give up the ghost. A combi (and I use it a lot) is apparently no longer available in that smaller size, to fit the tall unit.

Why anyone feels the need to replace a kitchen every 5 years I will never understand. So obscenely wasteful!

Moved in here 47 years ago. Replaced existing gas cooker with electric and simply papered and painted the rest. Had a facelift a year ago to make life easier with accessible drawers rather than cupboards. Inexpensive and works for me. Have to confess I don't spend much time in it!

I am of the "if you can live with it then live with it" brigade. I am not a slave to fashion and if it does the job I don't care what others think.

I'd say 20 years.

Three new kitchens in 40 years, but two were put into house extensions and the third into a tiny, badly designed galley kitchen. Current one was put in 22 years ago and I have no intention of changing it.

Could never understand the kitchen thing in Germany Jacky. Empty room with a hole in the wall is just about right.
It would be a miracle if one kitchen fits the space in another. You were lucky. Maybe freestanding might work but the kitchens in Germany I have seen are all fitted.
The first time I saw an built in dishwasher was in Germany over 45 years ago. I had no idea it was hiding behind a cupboard. took us a few years until we got one but it wasnt fitted until we got our new kitchen 5 or 6 years ago.
My dd left her very nice fitted kitchen and the new tenants (refugees) were delighted.

Our kitchen is 15 years old and still looks great. Changing a kitchen every 5 years does sound unsustainable, which is something that we surely need to consider.

My kitchen was new when I moved in 15 years ago and still looks as though it has many years left in it. I don't replace things unless I have to.

Moved in here just over 23 years ago, we had a new kitchen in December 2020, it’ll be the last.

My kitchen was in when we moved here but it was quite new at the time and we decided not to change it so about 8 yrs old.
However if I do get bored with it I will change the colour of the small appliances,I have had 3 kettles/3 toasters/2 pedal bins all in bright colours.

I had new doors and work surfaces put in about 15 years ago.
Fairly reasonable, except that the minute the sweet man struggled to fetch them in, I knew he had mistakenly made the oak, instead of light oak.
I didnt like to upset him, but I hated the kitchen with a passion.
Grey work surfaces with really dark wooden doors.
Just miserable looking.

We moved into my mum and dads house my childhood home. The kitchen is over 35yrs old and its solid as a rock.

I have thought about replacing the cupboard doors and drawers, but only for a change, certainly not because they chipped etc the working top is as solid as a rock too.

I had a new kitchen 25 years after moving into my present house.

Missadventure buy some nice paint and paint the doors, we did that when we first moved in here as we had a lot of other things to do before we got to the kitchen, looked really good, I’m sure there is better paint these days that will withstand the use of a kitchen.

They've had all sorts done to them since then, Oops..
They were red for a while, but them the overlay started to peel, so they had some wallpaper put on them and varnished (which looked brilliant!)
Then I changed the floor colour so the wallpaper didnt really go, so I've colour washed it with white.
Now I've changed the floor again so am thinking of going back to the wallpaper idea.

I think but I could be mistaken that Shandy recently gave her kitchen cupboards a facelift with Frenchic paint and followed a tutorial on YouTube.

Thanks MissAdventure I’m off to look at wallpaper!

The one I had looked exactly like knotty, weathered pine, and it was textured, too.
£10 a roll, and the roll did my kitchen.
If I buy it again, with my floor now grey, I should get the effect i wanted 15 years ago!

Dd and SiL painted some horrible old dark brown melamine kitchen cupboard doors with pale cream cupboard paint. The transformation was astonishing.

I don’t know how long it would have lasted, but was fine for 2 years - before the small kitchen was ripped out anyway for their extension.

There are companies now who paint kitchen cupboards.
I think my doors have been ruined by my thorough sticking job, though.
They are chipboard with an overlay, which started to curl and peel.

Mine's ancient but solid wood. We changed the tiles, sink, oven, worktops and floor about 12 years ago

I'd really like some of those large drawers instead of having to scrabble around at the back of cupboards and need new worktops but I don't know if I can face the upheaval of a new kitchen.

I would love a new kitchen.
I need one, in fact.
My cupboards are awful, all leaning on eachother to stay upright.
I have to shut them in a particular order to get them in place.
All horrible pipes on show, and holes gouged out around them.
I did think about painting the pipes copper - industrial look.

We have been in our home for 34 years, in that time we have had two new kitchens. Ripping everything out both times, last time was 12 years ago and cost a flipping fortune.

We are now waiting to hear from our structural engineer and builders as to whether or not the kitchen will have to go when the much needed structural work commences. I will be upset if it has to be replaced as it is still like new and I really really like it.

Callistemon21

Mine's ancient but solid wood. We changed the tiles, sink, oven, worktops and floor about 12 years ago

I'd really like some of those large drawers instead of having to scrabble around at the back of cupboards and need new worktops but I don't know if I can face the upheaval of a new kitchen.

When our kitchen was at the planning stage (back in the dark ages!) I was told by the (male) designer that I would ‘rue the day’ if I didn’t have any ordinary base cupboards. I had specified deep drawers and a pull out larder wherever possible in a not-very-big kitchen - (sole exceptions were a corner cupboard, no other option then, and one specifically for a swing-out waste bin.)

To my extreme annoyance, dh sided with the designer! Needless to say I told them both to get stuffed (metaphorically speaking) and have never ‘rued’ my decisions at all.

Chewbacca

^Granite Transformations' where they put the new recycled granite on top of the existing^ surface.

mumski my next door neighbours have just had this done this week and it looks fab. Their original worktop was a rather ugly pinky/brown speckled laminate and they've had a white sparkly granite overlay put on; new taps, new cupboard and drawer handles and it looks like a completely different kitchen. The work was done in less than a day and they're delighted with it.

*Chewbacca*. Thank you for the reassurance that it looks good. I have cream base units so (after much faffing) have gone black with twinkly bits. Hopefully going to be much better than the worn out ones at present,

Had my kitchen in my old house 30 years wasn't what I wanted but what we could afford. When I moved to my bungalow 2019 finally had my dream kitchen and it's bliss.