Photos:Family Spends £170k On Kitchen Decoration

They are the families who are prepared to part with eye-watering sums of money for their dream kitchen.From £75,000 hand-painted cabinets made of oak to copper pots and pans priced at £350 each, these home-owners have gone to extreme lengths to bring the 'wow factor' to their cooking areas - and insist it was all worth it.Businesswoman Becky Humphreys-Elvis and her husband, from South East London, spent £1,000 on a hot water tap while property developer Mike Robins bought a ton of granite to help create a 'statement room' in his Georgian villa in Scotland.Amanda Jenner and her husband Darren, from Poole in Dorset, paid for leather handles for their kitchen units and spent £10,000 on a wine fridge which was built using Nasa technology.In total they spent nearly £170,000 on their kitchen. According to property investment specialist London Central Portfolio, the average property value - recorded by monthly Land Registry figures - stands at £177,299.
Here, the families describe how they spent their cash:see photos

Businesswoman Becky Humphreys-Elvis, 44, husband Andy, 43, and daughters Ophelia, nine, and Cicely, six, live in a four-bedroom house in South-East London.Becky says: When we bought our Victorian house 11 years ago we couldn’t afford to do up the kitchen, so we had to make do with the previous owner’s tatty Ikea cupboards.The whole space was very poorly designed with a leaking conservatory attached and no room for a dishwasher or tumble dryer. Even the washing machine didn’t fit properly and stuck out into the room.I hated spending time in it. But I believe the kitchen is the heart of the home. I work in Central London and used to walk past the offices of Charlie Kingham, the bespoke kitchen cabinet maker, and think to myself ‘one day’.Then, last year, we decided to push the boat out. The girls were settled in a lovely independent school and we didn’t want to move, so decided to make our house work for us.Charlie Kingham designed us a traditional Shaker-style kitchen, with sliding roof panels to keep the area well ventilated and remove cooking smells, a wood-burning stove, and a separate utility room.

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