The Kitchen and bathroom are two of the rooms where you can spend an absolute fortune, fitting your own kitchen is not really that difficult, you will need help with the gas of course and fitting wall cupboards is a lot easier with two people!

Below are pictures of two houses of which I have fit the kitchens on my own.

Planning a kitchen is really not that difficult, there are many online kitchen planning facilities where you just enter the size of room and where the windows and doors are positioned etc. Most of the large DIY stores and Places like MFI have free brochures which will help you decide which units to fit in the kitchen. I always try and fit as many 1000mm base and wall units as possible as these are normally the cheapest units!

Below is a picture of a house which I used to rent out and the tenant left it in this poor condition, it's a pity you can't smell it as there was cat excrement under the units and the Trap from the sink had been leaking for some time, this had obviously never been reported to me!

 From the picture above you can see that I have already installed the ring main sockets and the double pole cooker circuit as the ovens on this range cooker are electric. 

To make it look like it does below required just cosmetic painting and the fitting of new units and a splash back. This particular kitchen was purchased form B & Q and was excellent value.

The most important thing to remember when planning a kitchen is to take accurate measurements. You can then use a combination of all unit sizes to fill the space completely.

Planning the kitchen correctly can save you plenty of time and money, try and leave the Sink and cooker where they are as moving these adds to the expense, ensure you have sufficient sockets before fitting the kitchen. Normally I would plan 5 double sockets above the worktop level and two double sockets below the worktop level for the washing machine etc. The hob is gas but the oven is electric and is fed from a FCU on a spur from the ring main.

You can be really cheeky and go to one of the well known DIY kitchen retailers and give them your kitchen measurements and get them to plan your kitchen, be sure to tell them exactly what you want or they will fill your kitchen with expensive unnecessary units!