Modular kitchens in Bangalore

As an indicative 2026 planning range: a straight 8 to 10 ft kitchen is roughly ₹1.2 to ₹3.5 lakh, an L-shape roughly ₹1.8 to ₹6 lakh, a parallel kitchen roughly ₹2.2 to ₹6.5 lakh, and a U-shape from about ₹2.8 lakh upwards — before appliances and before 18% GST. The spread inside each layout is the specification: the carcass board, the shutter finish, the hardware, the counter material, the accessories, and how much plumbing, electrical and civil work the kitchen needs. A rate quoted before anyone has measured the room is a number that will change, so the figure that matters is the itemised quotation you get after the measurement visit.

BWP plywood to IS 710 is the grade to specify for the base units, and particularly for the cabinet under the sink. That is the part of a kitchen that fails first in almost every case — not because of spillage from above, but because of slow leaks at the trap and the connections behind it, which nobody sees for months. It is worth the difference there even where the rest of the carcass is a lower grade, and it belongs in the written specification rather than being left to whoever installs the unit.

Usually, yes — and whether it stays cheap depends on four things we look at before quoting: the condition and position of the existing water and waste lines, the electrical points, the dado, and the waterproofing under the wet areas. If the services can stay where they are, a replacement is mostly demolition, cabinetry and a new counter. If a point has to move, the wall has to be chased, and that is priced as an item you can see rather than absorbed into a rate.

Quartz is engineered and non-porous, so it needs no annual sealing and resists staining well; it is the lower-maintenance choice and it costs more. Granite costs less, has excellent heat resistance and lasts indefinitely, but it is a natural stone with some porosity, so it wants sealing and a little maintenance. In a Bangalore kitchen the practical questions are hard water marking on a dark polished granite, and whether a hot pan is going to go straight down on the counter — quartz does not like sustained direct heat. Both are specified by material, thickness and edge profile in the quotation, so the cost difference is visible rather than buried.

All three are real, serviceable brands and the sensible approach is per item rather than per kitchen. Hettich and Hafele are the usual choice for the hardware you operate every day — hinges, channels, tandem boxes and lift-up systems — where the cycle rating and the warranty are what you are paying for. Ebco is commonly used for utility and loft applications where the load and the frequency of use are lower and the cost difference is worth taking. What matters more than the badge is that the quotation names the brand and the model, states the warranty, and that the part is one you can still buy in five years when a channel needs replacing.

Laminate is the durable, practical default: it takes daily use well, it is the least expensive of the three, and a damaged panel is replaced rather than refinished. Acrylic gives the high-gloss, seamless look, and it shows fingerprints and fine scratches in exactly the way a gloss surface does. PU is sprayed, so it offers the widest colour freedom and — unlike the other two — it can be repaired and recoated in place, which is why it tends to be the choice where the colour is the point. Beside the hob, laminate or PU handles sustained cooking heat better than a gloss acrylic panel.

As an indicative planning figure, about four to six weeks for a new kitchen from the measurement visit to handover, and about six to eight weeks where an existing kitchen is being replaced. Those are calendar durations, not the sum of the stages: the site work runs alongside the factory manufacturing rather than after it. They are a guide for planning rather than a commitment — the programme for your own kitchen is set out in the quotation, against its actual scope. The two things that most often push a programme out are stone selection and appliance selection, so both are worth settling in the first week rather than the fourth.

Either way works. Appliances can be quoted as a separate package alongside the cabinetry, or you can buy them yourself and we design the kitchen around the models you have chosen. What we need early is the actual model numbers, because the cut-out sizes, the chimney duct route and the power points all follow from them — a hob ordered after the counter has been templated is the most common cause of an avoidable delay.

Yes — a kitchen can be taken on as a scope of its own, whether or not anything else in the property is being done at the same time. It can equally sit inside a house build or a wider interior job, and there the advantage is sequence rather than price: the kitchen layout goes into the working drawings before the plumbing and electrical rough-in, so the points land where the cabinets are going. Either way, what the scope covers is defined in the quotation before work starts.

Four separate things, and a quotation that rolls them into one line is hiding something. The plywood carries the board manufacturer's warranty. The hardware carries the hardware manufacturer's warranty, per item and per brand. Our workmanship carries a warranty of its own, and there is a defined service and defects period after handover. The exact duration of the workmanship warranty and the defects period is stated in your quotation before you sign it, along with what each one covers and what it does not.