Kitchen display with a high dining table and tall units at the ALEA experience centre

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L-shape kitchens

Two runs of cabinetry meeting at one corner — the most forgiving plan in a standard flat.

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TYPICALLY 8–12 RUNNING FEET (GUIDANCE) / 10-YEAR WRITTEN WARRANTY / 15-DAY INSTALLATION

Our own factory 95,000sq ft
Written warranty 10years
Installation 15days
Published band ₹1,150–2,600per sq ft

Honestly

When an L-shape works — and when it does not.

General kitchen-planning guidance, not a judgement on your home. The room decides the layout: where the door, window, water line and gas point already are settles most of it before anyone chooses a finish.

It is the plan most standard flats end up with, and usually for good reason. Keeping the sink, hob and fridge across two adjacent walls leaves the rest of the room free to walk through, and in most homes there is still space for a small table. It also forgives a door or a window sitting where a tighter plan could not absorb it.

Choose it when

  • The room has two usable walls meeting at a corner
  • You want a walkway, or space for a small dining table, left over
  • There is one door and one window to plan around, not three

Think again when

  • Both long walls are broken by a door or a balcony exit
  • The room is long and narrow — two facing runs usually suit it better
  • You need the maximum possible storage; a U or G-shape holds more

If your room does not suit this layout we will say so on the free measurement, tell you plainly which layouts it will take, and leave you with a ballpark price. You keep the measurements either way.

Planning notes

Three things worth settling before anyone quotes you.

These are the decisions that move the cabinet schedule — and therefore the price — on an L-shape. General guidance, useful whoever builds your kitchen.

Keep the working triangle short

Sink, hob and fridge want to sit across the two runs rather than bunched on one. As general planning guidance, if you can walk between all three without crossing the room, the layout is working.

Decide the inside corner early

The corner where the two runs meet is the hardest cubic foot in any kitchen. Whether it gets a corner unit, a pull-out carousel or simply a blank filler changes the cabinet schedule, so it is settled at design stage, not on site.

Put the hob where the duct can leave

Chimney ducting is easiest on the run nearest an outside wall. Deciding which of the two runs carries the hob before civil work starts saves cutting and re-routing later.

Diagram of an L-shaped kitchen layout
Diagram — Layout diagram — an L-shaped plan drawn as line art. Not a photograph, and not a drawing of your kitchen.

Illustrative guide

What an L-shape costs, as arithmetic.

Both figures below are the published Signature rate multiplied out at each end of the typical range for this shape. Nothing here is quoted or promised — your own kitchen gets its own itemised number after a free measurement.

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Illustrative range — L-shape, 8–12 running feet, Signature ₹92,800–1,87,200 Cabinetry only · arithmetic from the published ₹1,450–1,950 per sq ft band

L-shape · Signature collection · illustrative only
Kitchen ≈ Cabinetry Estimated range
8 running ft 64 sq ft ₹92,800–1,24,800
12 running ft 96 sq ft ₹1,39,200–1,87,200

8–12 running feet is general planning guidance for this shape, not a measurement of your kitchen. Assumes standard base + wall units — about 8 sq ft of cabinetry per running foot. Range = sq ft × the published ₹1,450–1,950 per sq ft band. Countertop, chimney, hob, sink and appliances are quoted separately.

The range

The same L-shape, in three collections.

The layout does not change the rate — the collection does. Hettich and Blum hardware is fitted as standard and the 10-year written warranty applies in all three. What changes is the depth of finish and fitting choice.

Essential

Everything that matters, nothing that does not. Built to the same factory standard as every ALEA kitchen.

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Guide price ₹1,150–1,450 per sq ft

Signature

Our most-chosen kitchen. Where the finishes start to feel considered rather than chosen from a list.

See the Signature collection

Guide price ₹1,450–1,950 per sq ft

Atelier

The widest finish and fitting choice we make, and our most involved cabinetry — every panel and fitting named on your quotation.

See the Atelier collection

Guide price ₹1,950–2,600 per sq ft

Rates are per square foot of cabinetry — the same rates the estimator uses. See the published price list

The other 5

Not sure an L-shape is your room?

The running-foot figures are typical ranges for each shape — general planning guidance, not a measurement of your home. We measure your kitchen free of charge and tell you plainly which layouts the room will take.

The experience centre

Open the drawers before you decide the layout.

Standing displays are the fastest way to tell whether a shape suits how you cook. Come and open and close the drawers and fittings yourself — then visit the factory at Raipur Rani, Panchkula district and watch kitchens being built.

Open shelving and kitchen accessories on display at the ALEA experience centre Display
Accessories on display / ALEA experience centre — open and close the fittings yourself on a free visit

Questions

Asked about L-shape kitchens.

How many running feet is a typical L-shape kitchen?

As general kitchen-planning guidance, L-shape kitchens typically run 8 to 12 running feet. That is a typical range for the shape, not a measurement of your home — the real figure depends on where your door, window, water line and gas point already are. We measure your kitchen free of charge on the site visit and give you the exact running feet, which you keep either way.

What does an L-shape kitchen cost?

Our rates are published per square foot of cabinetry, and Signature is ₹1,450–1,950 per sq ft. Assuming standard base and wall units — about 8 sq ft of cabinetry per running foot — an 8-running-foot kitchen works out to roughly ₹92,800–1,24,800, and a 12-running-foot one to roughly ₹1,39,200–1,87,200. That is illustrative arithmetic from the published band, not a quotation, and it covers cabinetry only. The estimator does the same sum for your own length before we ask for your phone number.

What can I do with the corner in an L-shaped kitchen?

The inside corner is the one cabinet position that has to be decided deliberately. In general kitchen planning it gets one of three answers: a corner unit with a carousel or pull-out mechanism, a plain deep cabinet reached from one side, or a filler panel with the run simply starting past it. Each costs a different amount and each changes the cabinet schedule, so we settle it on the free design visit rather than on installation day.

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Let us measure the room before you commit to a shape.

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