Paisley, Renfrewshire
Kitchen fitting in Paisley
Paisley has a wider spread of housing than anywhere else we work, and the kitchen brief changes completely across it. A Victorian terrace off Causeyside Street and a 1990s semi in Foxbar are two different jobs with two different budgets, and it is worth being clear about which one you are asking for.
Older terraces: the room is usually bigger than it looks
In Paisley's older terraced and tenement stock, the kitchen has frequently been carved out of a larger space, or has a redundant pantry or press taking up a corner. Opening that back up is often the cheapest square footage you will ever buy. We have picked up a full run of base units in rooms where the owners assumed there was no space left.
Post-war and ex-council homes: layout beats finish
A lot of the housing built here between the 1950s and 1970s has a galley kitchen with a back door partway along one wall, which kills the run. Where the budget is limited, moving or blocking that door and reclaiming the wall does more for the room than a more expensive door front would. It is not a glamorous recommendation but it is usually the right one.
Newer estates: replacing a builder's kitchen
On the newer developments around the town, the original kitchen is often structurally fine but specified down to a price: thin carcasses, laminate worktop with a rolled edge, and a layout drawn to be cheap to install rather than good to use. Those come out easily, the walls behind are usually straight, and you get a lot of visible improvement for a fairly ordinary budget.
Worktops on their own
If the cabinets are sound, we will happily quote for worktops alone. It is a one or two day job, it costs a fraction of a refit, and in a kitchen that is only about eight years old it often gets you most of the way to feeling new.