Most Vancouver kitchen studios will not give you a number until you book a designer call. We will. A custom kitchen in Vancouver runs from about $18,000 for a smaller kitchen to past $100,000 for a large luxury build, and most projects land in the $30,000 to $50,000 range. That range is wide on purpose, because the cost of a kitchen depends on real choices you get to make, and the honest answer is that it depends on what you build.
Here is what actually moves the number.
A galley kitchen in a Kitsilano apartment is a different project from a large open-plan kitchen in a North Shore house. More cabinetry means more material and more labour, and a layout change that moves plumbing or electrical adds trades beyond cabinetry. If your footprint stays where it is, you spend less. If you are reworking the whole room, you spend more.
Cabinets are usually the largest line in a kitchen. Construction, door style, finish, and hardware all change the price. A clean melamine interior with a flat slab door costs less than a painted door with custom inserts, soft-close everything, and integrated lighting. This is the part of the project where the spread between an entry-band kitchen and a fully custom one opens up the most.
Counter material is a real fork in the budget. A standard quartz runs lower than a thick natural stone slab with a waterfall edge. The square footage matters too, so a large island adds more than people expect. We can show you where a counter choice lands before you commit to it.
Appliances are often a separate budget that buyers underestimate. A mid-range appliance package and a fully integrated high-end package can differ by more than the cost of the cabinets around them. We build the cabinetry to fit whatever package you choose, so this is a lever you control directly.
The visible kitchen sits on top of work you do not see: removal of the old kitchen, any plumbing or electrical changes, and the install itself. A straight swap is cheaper than a project that opens walls. If your renovation touches structure or services, that shows up in the quote, and we would rather tell you that early than surprise you at the end.
If you want a single honest sentence: most of our projects come in around $30,000 to $50,000, the simpler ones sit nearer the $18,000 to $28,000 entry band, and the larger, fully custom kitchens reach $100,000 and up. Where you fall inside that range is a function of the choices above, and none of those choices are hidden from you.
If you want a rough number for your own kitchen in a couple of minutes, the Vancouver Kitchen Cost Calculator takes three inputs (size, finish tier, and appliance package) and returns a price band. It is an estimate, not a quote, but it will tell you which part of the range you are looking at.
When you are ready for a real number, come by the Kitsilano showroom or book a call and we will walk through it with you. You can see how we work across the city on the Vancouver page.