Guides
How to Choose Timber for a Dining Table
Species, hardness and price bands explained without the sales talk.
How we quote
Fixed prices, not range estimates
Most joinery quotes come back as a range because the person writing it has not measured anything yet. We do it the other way round. A bench hand visits your house, checks the walls, the power points and the floor fall, then we send a single number. That number is what you pay, unless you change the design after signing, in which case the change is priced in writing before we touch a tool.
The figures below are genuine starting points from jobs completed in the last eighteen months. A small galley kitchen sits near the bottom. A nine metre kitchen with stone, integrated appliances and a butler pantry lands well above the top figure, and nobody pretends otherwise.
740+
Jobs priced and delivered
0
Surprise invoices last year
6–8 wks
Typical lead time
30%
Deposit to book a slot
Kitchen cabinetry
What a custom kitchen costs, by size
Prices include design, build, delivery, installation and removal of your old kitchen. Appliances, plumbing and electrical labour are separate unless stated.
| Scope | Run length | Doors and finish | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single run joinery | Up to 3 lineal metres | Laminate or painted MDF | $6,400 |
| Compact kitchen replacement | 3 to 5.5 lineal metres | Painted doors, timber benchtop | $9,750 |
| Full kitchen replacement | Up to 9 lineal metres | Solid timber or two-pack | $14,800 |
| Large kitchen with island | 9 to 14 lineal metres | Two-pack, 40mm stone | $23,900 |
| Kitchen plus butler pantry | From 13 lineal metres | Mixed, with a sink and drying rail | $31,400 |
A full breakdown of kitchen costs, including the lines other quotes leave out, is in our article on What a Kitchen Renovation Really Costs.
Dining tables
Bespoke dining table pricing
Every table is quoted per commission, but these are the bands we work in. Delivery across metropolitan Melbourne is included.
Small
Up to 1.6m
$3,250
- Seats four comfortably
- 30mm solid top
- Two or four legs, your choice
- Oil or hard wax finish
Most ordered
1.6m to 2.4m
$4,900
- Seats six
- 40mm solid top
- Reinforced apron rails
- Bench seat option at cost
Large
2.4m to 3.2m
$7,400
- Seats eight to ten
- 50mm solid top
- Steel or timber underframe
- Site levelling included
Round
Round and oval
$6,100
- 1.2m to 1.8m diameter
- Butterfly or pedestal base
- Matching lazy Susan available
- Timber matched in the workshop
Packages
Three bundles that save you money
If you are doing more than one thing, bundling lowers the price because we only travel and set up once.
Starter
Kitchen plus one dining table
$17,450
- Kitchen up to 9 lineal metres
- 6-seat dining table
- One delivery and install visit each
- Saves roughly $700 on separate jobs
Whole home
Kitchen, laundry and pantry
$28,600
- Kitchen up to 9 lineal metres
- Laundry run up to 3 metres
- Butler pantry with open shelving
- One site measure for all rooms
Investor
Two rental kitchens
$25,900
- Two compact kitchens, 3 to 5 metres each
- Laminate or painted doors
- Standard 20mm laminate benchtops
- Priced per unit on request
Included
What is already in the price
- Site measure by a bench hand, not a salesperson
- Scaled drawings and two rounds of design changes
- All joinery, hardware, hinges and runners
- Delivery and installation by our own crew
- Removal and disposal of your old kitchen
- Clean-up at the end of every day on site
- Ten year workmanship warranty
Not included
What sits outside the quote
- Appliances, sinks, taps and range hoods
- Licensed electrical and plumbing work
- Tiling, plastering and painting
- Structural changes, including moving a wall
- Asbestos removal in pre-1990 homes
- Council permits, if your job needs them
We can recommend trades for everything on this list. They invoice you directly, so there is no markup from us.
Add-ons
Extras, priced honestly
These are the things people bolt on after the first meeting. Each one is quoted separately and added to the final invoice without padding.
01
Soft-close upgrade
$42 per drawer or door, fitted during the build.
02
Stone benchtop swap
From $3,100 for 20mm engineered stone, templated and installed.
03
Hidden pull-out bins
$380 for a two-bin unit, integrated behind a matched door.
04
Under-cabinet lighting
$560 for LED strip, driver and a switched spur.
05
Table bench seat
$980 for a matching bench up to 2 metres.
06
Extended warranty cover
$290 for an extra five years on top of the standard ten.
Payment
How and when you pay
30% to book
Pays for your slot in the schedule and the timber order. Refundable up to seven days before cutting starts.
40% at build start
Due when panels get cut. At this point materials are committed and the work is underway in the workshop.
30% on completion
Paid after installation and your walkthrough, once you are happy with the drawer gaps and door alignment.
EFT or card
Bank transfer, debit card or credit card. Card payments carry a 1.4% surcharge because the bank charges us.
Cancellation terms and deposit refund rules are set out in our refund policy and terms and conditions.
What clients think
Feedback on our pricing, not just our work
Plenty of reviews praise the finish. These ones mention the money, which is the part people actually worry about.
We got three quotes. Two came back as ranges, one as a single number. We went with the single number and it never moved, even when the sparky found old wiring.
Nadia Petrova
Brunswick
The add-ons list was handed to us up front, so there were no mystery line items at the end. We skipped the stone and kept the timber top, and saved about four grand.
Grant McAllister
Elwood
Before you sign anything
Questions people ask about price
A flat-pack carcass is cut to a fixed module and you assemble it. Ours is drawn for your walls, cut on our saw and installed by the same people. That difference shows up when a wall is 20mm out of square and somebody has to make a scribe filler that actually fits.
Yes, and most clients do. Send us the model numbers before drawings are finalised so cavities and door clearances are right. If you change appliances after the build starts, the cabinetry change becomes a variation and gets quoted before any cutting.
Anything inside metropolitan Melbourne is free. Outside the ring road we charge a flat $180 travel and accommodation fee, which covers the measure visit and the installation trip. Geelong, Ballarat and the Mornington Peninsula all fall into that group.
If we miss the written install date for reasons within our control, we take $250 off the final invoice for each week of delay. If the delay comes from a supplier, an electrician or you changing the design, that clause does not apply and we will tell you which category it falls into.
No. We are a workshop, not a finance company, and pretending we can carry the risk of lending would mean pricing it in somewhere else. What we can do is split the deposit if you need a month to organise it, provided that does not push you into our busy season.
Reading
Guides that go with these numbers
Costs
What a Kitchen Renovation Really Costs
Every line item we see on a Melbourne kitchen quote, explained.
There is more in the workshop journal if you want to read before you ring.
Get a number
Send us the basics and we will price it
You do not need drawings or a mood board. A photo of the room, rough dimensions and a budget range is enough for us to tell you whether we are the right workshop for the job. Answers usually come back inside one business day.
Or just ring
Talk to Rachel or Marcus
If a form feels like too much, call the workshop between 8:00 and 17:30 on a weekday. Rachel keeps the schedule and can usually tell you on the spot whether your budget and timeline line up with our calendar.
60 Cremorne Street, Cremorne VIC 3121
Monday to Friday, 8:00 – 17:30
Saturday, 9:00 – 14:00
Full contact detailsKnow the price before you commit
Book a site measure and get a fixed number in writing, with the inclusions and exclusions spelled out. The visit costs you nothing.