Your kitchen, a room you will use every day.
Does yours fit your lifestyle?
Ever started a project with a picture in your mind of how it’s going to turn out...
Then when you’re done, it didn’t quite meet those expectations?
Often, the reason was because you didn’t know what you didn’t know. It only became obvious when you reached the point where something broke, or didn't work as planned...
Thousands of kitchens
At Capital Kitchens, we’ve designed and built thousands of kitchens. Over 56 years collective experience means we have seen what works and what doesn’t.
The really hard work in providing you with the kitchen, that will suit you and your lifestyle, happens during the planning stages...
Most kitchen companies simply mock up a pretty plan and issue you a quotation. They don’t take the time to help you avoid designing a kitchen you will later find un-workable (or even hate).
Wow, that kitchen design idea is stunning!
Many unsuspecting kitchen shoppers simply make a decision based on the presentation given by the showroom salesperson.
They don't realise that, while the kitchen may look stunning in the showroom, once installed in their home, it simply won’t suit their lifestyle.
But by then, it’s too late and they are stuck with an expensive kitchen that’s difficult to work in, and doesn't suit their day to day needs.
We sit with you and design your dream kitchen.
When you visit Capital Kitchens, we sit down with you, and spend time to understand your lifestyle, your dreams.
We bring our experience to bear in making recommendations; help you consider aspects of your lifestyle, and how they impact your kitchen design decisions.
We’ll take your preferences and draw them up into a visual representation - help you see how your kitchen will flow and fit into your lifestyle. Adjust, tweak and come to a final design that suits you.
Why we are different
Three things you can count on …
There are three things you can hold Capital Kitchens to account on:
Kitchen disasters and shortcuts
For many kitchen manufacturers, there’s enormous extra profit to be made in the “shortcuts” that a client would rarely know to look out for in a kitchen installation.
Installing or upgrading your kitchen is a costly exercise in anyone’s book. Living with an expensive kitchen, where you later discover you’ve been shortchanged, is not a situation you want to find yourself in.
We’ve developed a shortlist of questions to ask your potential kitchen installation companies, that’ll help you avoid being shortchanged:
”What brands of kitchen hardware do you quote and install?”
Cheaply manufactured baskets, drawer runners and door hinges may feel and look the same when they are new. It’s only as your kitchen ages, that you start to see the difference. Long after the standard guarantee has run out.
Specifying and installing quality brands is a thing many kitchen companies shortchange their clients on. Don’t be the one shortchanged.
”Is each cabinet section self contained?”
Cabinets are individually constructed prior to installation.
The most common, cost cutting scam, kitchen manufacturers pull on unsuspecting clients, is to skimp on material usage. The end result may look similar, but the structure is weaker. Given time, and your doors will hang skew and not close, etc.
Here’s a few of the most common signs of being shortchanged:
What material do they use for the kick plates?”
This is an important question.
The kick plates are installed between the floor and cabinet.
When the floor is mopped (or worse, liquid is spilt), it washes up against the kick plates. If the material used for the kick plate is not the correct material (and it usually isn’t), then it will start to swell, then crumble.
It’s not long before the kitchen starts falling apart after the kick plates start deteriorating.
The end result of these shortcuts?
Your kitchen is not cheaper because they charged you less, it’s cheaper because they use less and/or cheaper material – at your expense.
You may pay more for your kitchen at Capital Kitchens, but you are paying a fair price for the quality products and workmanship you receive.
Book today and we’ll demonstrate all the common pitfalls you’ll avoid when you use Capital Kitchens.
Kitchen Design
Kitchen Design – Prevent those unforeseen mistakes
Your kitchen is the soul of your house. A place for more than just preparing and cooking meals. It’s a place where family and friends hang around while meals are prepared.
Your kitchen design has to be placed in the context of your home and lifestyle.
Design considerations that take into account what happens when you have friends around for a meal; when you’re putting the finishing touches to the meal and your guests are milling about; sipping on a glass of wine while you’re chatting.
Light! So many forget how important the right kind and amount of light, in the right places, is to making your kitchen a pleasure or a nightmare.
When you engage with Capital Kitchens to design your kitchen, we bring our design experience to bear. We help you consider all the oft neglected aspects of a great kitchen. More importantly, we know when a kitchen is being over-designed – losing it’s soul.
Construction / Installation
You’re all excited.
Your chosen kitchen contractor is due to ‘install’ your kitchen today. You have shuffled things around in your diary, just so you can be there.
The team arrives and promptly starts to build the kitchen components right there on-site. Yes, their kitchen quotation was cheaper, but this is going to take ages …
Were are you going to cook now?
You had in mind a couple of days eating take-out, but weeks? All that mess, noise and having to deal with workers in and out of your house for a week or more. Not exactly what you had in mind!
At Capital Kitchens, we have our own dedicated factory. We build your kitchen according to the design plans, using the right tools for the job, in a factory designed for building kitchen and furniture components.
When we build your kitchen cabinets, we use the best quality materials and components from industry renowned and proven suppliers. We don’t use cheaper or inferior materials just to make a few extra bucks.
When we arrive at your home to install, everything is ready for installation. The Kitchen Components have been built in our factory therefore there is no unnecessary building on-site. On arrival, we are ready to install your kitchen from the approved kitchen design.
That means we are in and out, in as much time it takes to get your kitchen installed. And you are free to enjoy your dream kitchen by the end of the day.
Cheap and nasty?
We only use tried and trusted, quality brand components in our kitchen manufacturing.
Yes, it does cost more, but we stand by our kitchens.
If there's ever a problem, we will work with you to resolve it. Using quality components ensures you have a guarantee that actually means something.
We won't leave you with a kitchen you don't want. That's our guarantee.
WE DO OFFER A MORE ECONOMICAL RANGE OF CUPBOARDS IF REQUIRED.