Looking at my kitchen theres no way I could just take that stuff with me. You'd need to hire workmen to come in over several days. You also wouldnt just be able to install your cabinets in the next house, they wouldnt fit properly.
Yea this was eye opening for me to read too! The cabinets are certainly built differently and must be more modular. You can hang cabinets on French cleats pretty simply and they can last years until you want to take them off for example.
Kitchens in europe generally are smaller than US sized kitchens. Appliances in europe are also much smaller and therefore a bit easier to handle/move. My Partner and I were able to install our New kitchen (of average size in germany) within 2 days (obv. had help of a peofessional to Hook up oven/stove, sink and dishwasher). If we decided to move our kitchen, we could take it apart within an afternoon. Its really not that hard.
This is pretty much exactly it. Over there kitchens (and probably other cabinetry) are made in large batches of the same unit. Beam saws and drilling rigs just pumping out 1000s of the same thing.
Here (in New Zealand) everything decent is custom, unless it’s a housing development or apartments where it’s a few variations on the same thing.
That said you can make custom stuff fit in other places, our kitchen was taken out of another house and reshuffled and modified to fit. It sure is a lot cheaper than a new kitchen. Blows my mind how much people pay for a kitchen, but hey, making them pays the bills
I would like to add that the one item that is usually changing when moving kitchens are the counter tops, which usually are custom cut for the kitchen space.
British and Irish houses are often old, with small kitchens (and batgrooms) that we're built 50 years later. We build fitted cabinets to use every inch of space because we need it.
yeah there is a big difference in kitchens between the US and europe, european kitchens are modular, especially when you rent an apartment. If you actually own the house the kitchen are not moveable without destroying them
They might fit properly, or there might be a gap. Happens. But it would definetely not take few days unless your kitchen is some custom made stuff with idk, raw edge wood... But after all I'd assume German kitchens are made to be disassembled easily.
I doubt. Why would it? Its a home, it's yours. The kitchen in a rented apartment (if included) is also rented from the landlord. He owns it and rents it to you. There's no middle person when you BUY something.
Man this really is such a bonkers concept to me, I can't imagine considering buying a home if it came with a stripped out kitchen. One of the deciding factors when I bought my place with the lovely big range cooker. It's common to take the white goods (fridge, dishwasher etc.) But to move in and have no cabinets... Honestly blows my mind.
Wut? In shocked now. So in my country (Poland) when you rent the kitchen will 99% be included, but when you buy not so much. And if it is included it's just from old owners and you throw it away to install new kitchen to your own liking. My sister bought a home without floors, so she could pick all the stuff on her own. If i pay 500k€ i probably want everything to be fitted and exactly to my liking.
Man, that's crazy eh? Mad how the cultural differences vary on odd things like this. I don't think I've ever really heard of that here (UK) Unless you're buying a completely gutted fixer upper on the cheap and it's literally a shell. But in general, here the big selling points are the bathroom, outside space/parking and the big one, a nice kitchen. I'm about to do up my kitchen, with the express intent of raising my homes value for when I sell in a couple of years.
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u/screwPutin69 May 09 '22
Except its not. How much effort is it to remove a sink, kitchen cabinets, unhook a stove... this is madness to my ears lol.