There's a helluva lot of kitchen threads in this forum that have sold me on the Bunnings flatpax kitchens, the word is they have nice solid backs and good quality construction - only a choice of 4 colours in the most basic model though, your place is fairly modern so you'd end up with the white cupboards and grey stone look benchtops, I'm going beige and brown. I think the long Ikea kitchen photos thread digressed into a kitchen comparison discussion. The flatpax kitchens have a 600 wide underbench oven module that makes everything else hard to fit in if you don't use it, and all the cabinet units come with a useable but not funkytrendymodern handle so realistically you need to allow extra $ for handles on top of the base cost, plus sink, taps and tiles. Our kitchen is so big (just under 4x5m) we can get a decent size flatpax kitchen in with no corners and no cutting, although if it was my PPoR I'd go around two of the corners and make a ludicrously huge kitchen and put an island bench in the middle, but that would triple the cost. The flatpax brochure has all the cabinet modules as stickers and some glossy grid paper so you can design your own!
Out here you expect to see a tiny bench with a sink on it and an upright oven all by itself (or just a woodstove) and NOTHING ELSE in a kitchen (PPoR or rental), so I'm going to have like
the best kitchen in an old-style rental in the town once we've got a flatpax kitchen in
But I imagine where yours is a nice kitchen is expected or you'd never get tenants.
My PPoR kitchen is a muddle of freestanding cupboards, an old shop counter with curtains on the front, upright stove, Ikea wallmount units. Cost about $1000 in total including paint, tiles (its a 4.3m x 4.3 x 3.6 room), sink, oven, plumbing, hot water service, timber oddments, plaster/mortar, cornice repair and a new door. Cheapest reno in the house, and surprisingly doesn't look too bad either. We got the hot water service, oven and plumbing as a Christmas present. Now we're drooling over the pretty flatpax kitchens but we can't justify the cost as it won't really add any value to the house.