A new kitchen is one of the biggest projects most Glasgow homeowners ever take on. It involves design choices, structural decisions, coordinating multiple trades, navigating supplier lead times and living without a working kitchen for several weeks. Done well, it adds genuine value to the home and lasts fifteen to twenty years. Done poorly, it costs more, takes longer and never quite stops annoying you.
This guide pulls together everything we'd tell you on a first in-home consultation: realistic costs for the Glasgow market, the styles that suit different housing stock, how long fitting actually takes, when you need planning permission, and what to look for in the company you trust with it. Each section links out to a deeper guide if you want more detail.
1. Costs in the Glasgow market
Glasgow kitchen prices vary widely because the housing stock does. A compact tenement refit looks very different from a detached new kitchen in Newton Mearns with an island and a separate utility. As a rough working range:
- Tenement and flat kitchens, typically £10,000 to £22,000 for a trusted local fitter project.
- Semi-detached and terraced family kitchenstypically £15,000 to £30,000.
- Larger detached / open-plan with islandtypically £25,000 to £50,000+.
Those figures cover cabinetry, worktops, sink and tap, appliances, flooring, electrical and plumbing work and labour. They don't cover structural changes like removing walls or adding extensions, which sit on top. We've broken the cost drivers down in detail in our Glasgow kitchen cost guide.
2. Choosing a style that suits your home
Glasgow's housing is varied, sandstone tenements, 1930s semis, post-war bungalows, 1970s new-town builds and contemporary developments. Style choices that look great in one of those can look wrong in another. The four most common directions we design:
- Shaker, the all-round favourite, suits almost any property, particularly period homes.
- In-frame, a premium version of Shaker, beautiful in Victorian and Edwardian properties.
- Handleless / modern slab, clean, quiet and contemporary, perfect for new-builds and open-plan extensions.
- Traditional / classic, detailed, painted, often with a range cooker focal point.
Full pros, cons and price ranges are in our kitchen styles guide.
3. Timeline, sign-off to handover
From the day you sign off the design, a typical Glasgow project runs 8 to 12 weeks: four to six weeks for the cabinetry to be manufactured, then two to four weeks on site for installation. Worktop templating happens mid-install and adds roughly 7–10 working days. Reconfigurations involving knock-throughs or extensions extend the on-site phase. The detail is in our installation timeline guide.
4. The fitting process
A kitchen with a vetted local fitter project moves through six phases:
- Free in-home consultation and survey
- Design, scaled drawings and itemised quote
- Specification sign-off and ordering
- Strip-out and first fix (plumbing, electrics, plastering)
- Cabinetry, worktop templating and second fix
- Snagging, handover and aftercare
We've broken every working day of a typical fit down in the fitting process guide, and the same flow underpins our Fitted Kitchens Glasgow service.
5. Worktops, appliances and the spec choices that matter
After cabinetry, worktops are the single biggest visual and budget decision. Quartz dominates the premium end, laminate has improved beyond recognition at the value end, and solid wood remains a characterful middle ground. Our worktops comparison covers the honest pros and cons of each. On appliances, Bosch, Neff, Siemens, AEG and Miele are the brands we specify most often for Glasgow homes, but the right combination depends on how you actually cook, not the badge.
6. Tenement and small-kitchen design
A surprising number of Glasgow kitchens sit in the 8–14m² range. The temptation is to cram in too much; the smarter move is fewer, taller and cleverer elements. We've collected a tenement-specific playbook in small kitchen ideas for Glasgow tenements.
7. Planning permission and building consent
Most kitchen renovations in Scotland don't need planning permission. Extensions, listed buildings and certain conservation-area changes do, and many electrical and structural works require a building warrant. The rules are different from England, so don't rely on UK-wide articles. We cover Scotland specifically in our planning permission guide.
8. Choosing the right kitchen company
Glasgow has three broad types of kitchen supplier: large national showrooms with separate fitting contractors, independent kitchen showrooms with in-house teams, and design-and-deliver companies (like Stonefield) that work with vetted local fitters. The model matters more than the brochure. Questions worth asking:
- Who is contractually responsible for the installation?
- Who do I call if there's a problem six months later?
- Is the vetted fitter network from one party or split?
- How are the fitters chosen and vetted?
- What happens if a unit arrives damaged or a worktop is wrong?
9. Where we work
We cover the city centre, the West End, the Southside and the East End, plus the surrounding suburbs and commuter towns Bearsden, Bishopbriggs, Newton Mearns, Giffnock, Rutherglen, East Kilbride and beyond. Full list, with dedicated pages for priority areas, on our areas we cover page.
What to do next
If you're somewhere between "we've been thinking about it" and "we're ready to start", a free in-home consultation costs you nothing and gives you a properly-scoped quote to work with, far more useful than a showroom guess. We come to you, measure up, listen to how the kitchen needs to work for your household, and follow up in writing.