Home Decor Zone renovates kitchens across the east of Glasgow — Baillieston, Garrowhill, Mount Vernon, Shettleston, Tollcross, Carntyne, Dennistoun and Bridgeton. One fixed-price contract covers everything from stripping out the old kitchen to the last coat of paint, including any wall removal and the building warrant that goes with it.
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Kitchens in East Glasgow: what we usually find
1930s semis and bungalows (Mount Vernon, Garrowhill, Baillieston)
Separate kitchen and dining room, usually with a load-bearing wall between them and a back door opening onto the garden. The standard job is a kitchen-diner with the wall out on a steel, bi-fold doors to the garden, and units running where the old pantry was. Many Garrowhill bungalows also take an island once the room is opened up.
Tenements and four-in-a-blocks (Shettleston, Tollcross, Dennistoun, Bridgeton)
Dennistoun’s sandstone tenements are a conservation area; Shettleston and Tollcross have both tenements and inter-war cottage flats. Kitchens are compact, services are old, and the common soil stack dictates where the sink can go without a long drainage run. We open kitchens into living rooms with a steel and a warrant, and we are used to working with factors and shared access.
Ex-local-authority houses (Carntyne, Barlanark, Easterhouse, Baillieston)
Solid houses with generous kitchens that often still have a single circuit and original tiling. Typical scope: full rewire of the kitchen, replaster, new layout with more worktop, and flooring through to the hall. Concrete ground floors mean we plan pipe routes before anything is chased.
What a kitchen renovation in East Glasgow includes
- Strip-out and disposal of the old kitchen, tiles and flooring
- Structural work where the layout changes — wall removal with steel, new openings, chimney breast removal — with drawings and the building warrant handled by us
- First-fix plumbing and electrics: moving the sink, new circuits for the hob, oven and appliances, under-cabinet lighting, extractor ducting
- Plastering — skim, dot-and-dab or full re-board on old lath-and-plaster
- Kitchen fitting: units, worktops (laminate, quartz, granite), splashback tiling, sink and taps, appliance connection
- Flooring and decoration so you get a finished room, not a fitted kitchen in a building site
The kitchen units and appliances are supplied by you — from Wren, Howdens, IKEA, B&Q or Magnet — or we can arrange them through Wren or Howdens on your behalf. Our price covers labour and building materials: plaster, plasterboard, pipework, cable, timber, adhesives, fixings. Everything is itemised line by line, so you see exactly what each part costs. Full details on our kitchen renovation Glasgow page; fitting-only prices on kitchen fitting Glasgow.
Kitchen renovation cost in Baillieston and East Glasgow
| Scope | Typical price (labour + building materials) |
|---|---|
| Like-for-like refit (same layout, new units fitted, splashback, decoration) | £7,000 – £9,500 |
| Refit with services moved (sink or hob relocated, new circuits, replastering) | £9,000 – £13,000 |
| Open-plan kitchen-diner — load-bearing wall removed with steel, full renovation | £14,000 – £22,000 |
| Kitchen into an extension (fit-out only, extension priced separately) | £8,000 – £12,000 |
| Fitting only (you supply units, no building work) | £2,500 – £4,500 |
Kitchen units and appliances are on top — usually £3,000–£12,000 depending on brand and size, often about as much again as the building work. A full breakdown of what drives the price up or down is in our kitchen renovation cost guide.
How the job runs
- Site visit — we measure, check walls, services and floor, and talk through the layout
- Fixed itemised quote within 48 hours, with a start date
- Drawings and warrant if a wall is coming down (4–8 weeks with the council — we start the paperwork straight away)
- On site: strip-out → structural → first fix → plaster → flooring → units and worktops → tiling and decoration. A straightforward refit is 2–3 weeks; an open-plan knock-through 4–6 weeks
- Sign-off: walk-round together, snagging, completion certificate where there was a warrant — then the final payment
Recent kitchens
- Glasgow southside — tenement kitchen relocated into the former bed recess, drainage run to the common stack, services rerouted, plastered and decorated.
- Paisley — kitchen and dining room knock-through in a 1930s semi: load-bearing wall removed, steel on padstones, kitchen refitted into the open-plan space.
- Clarkston — open-plan kitchen with breakfast peninsula, navy Shaker units and herringbone flooring.
Areas we cover from here
Baillieston, Garrowhill, Mount Vernon, Shettleston, Tollcross, Sandyhills, Carntyne, Dennistoun, Bridgeton, Parkhead, Barlanark, Easterhouse, Coatbridge and Uddingston. Also see kitchen renovation Glasgow, tenement renovation and open-plan kitchens.
Kitchen renovation in Baillieston or the East End? Call 07568 582337 or request a free site visit — fixed, itemised quote within 48 hours, no final payment until you are happy. Plan your layout first with our free 2D kitchen planner.
Frequently asked questions
From £7,000 for labour and building materials with the units supplied by you. A like-for-like refit is typically £7,000–£9,500, moving services £9,000–£13,000, and a kitchen-diner knock-through with steel £14,000–£22,000. Fitting only from £2,500.
Yes, if it is load-bearing — which in a 1930s semi it almost always is. The warrant comes from Glasgow City Council (or North Lanarkshire for Coatbridge), with a structural engineer’s calculations for the steel. We handle the application; allow 4–8 weeks.
Yes. Dennistoun is a conservation area, which affects external changes only; an internal kitchen renovation or wall removal needs a building warrant but not planning permission. We notify the factor and protect the close.
A refit is 2–3 weeks on site; a knock-through 4–6 weeks plus the warrant period, which we start straight after the quote is accepted.
Plumbing, electrics, joinery, plastering, tiling and decoration are all coordinated by us under one contract, with electrical work certified. You deal with one person throughout.