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Don’t touch Wren.
Howdens are good. I have an account and have fitted a lot of their stuff.
If you can get a recommendation from someone you know locally that’s a good move.
Don’t trust trusted traders.
We got Howdens to do our design, and were disappointed in both the design and cost (and I had an account) I ended up doing my own design to get what we wanted. I have no experience with DIY kitchens so will refrain from commenting on them, but I do have experience with/of Roundel, Nixon’s, Be Modern, Howdens, and Wren, none of them are/were perfect but Wren is, at the moment, the only one I’d go back to. They have had issues in the past which they were open about with me and had (so they said) taken appropriate steps to correct it. You do need your wits about you though as they will try to sell you stuff you don’t want/need, most kitchen suppliers would do that anyway.
The quality from my point of view is spot on and I’m finicky, all the drawers and doors have soft closers - that should be pretty much standard theses days, metal drawer boxes.
Four years trouble free for us - I really can’t rate the kitchen and service we got highly enough.
My sis is just about to order from Howdens - we also looked at them when we did ours as well. I just didn’t fancy what they were offering at the time.
Ask around your local area and see what good independents you can find.
Fitted some Wickes stuff to our old house, looked nice to start but didn't take long for it to start de-laminating.
Used to do electrical work for a kitchen company called Copford Woodcraft, all bespoke, custom built. Their kitchens were stunning but incredibly expensive (£30-50k fitted).
And then (if you are not DIYing), pay for someone really good to fit it. If the units and benches are fixed really strongly on the horizon and vertical, then (I have found) they are admirable and sturdy kitchens.
Definitely the cheap option when comparing to bespoke, boutique or designer - ours is 14 years old, and only now looking tired.
We had to coordinate the whole thing as we needed plastering and other bits doing, but in terms of the kitchen bit, Derwentside were great and so nice to have proper handbuilt real wood units.
Howdens are good, too.