What does KBB industry mean?

Kbb is an abbreviation for kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms.

The kbb industry is primarily interior design-focused and normally involves sales and project management kbb jobs.

Kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms can be purchased from national retailers, independent retailers, online retailers, interior design practices, installers, house builders and builder merchants.

Kitchen designer or bathroom designer roles typically consists of the initial customer showroom enquiry, selling your company and product benefits, home visit for a measure, design, presentation and sometimes project management during the installation.

Many experts would agree, a new kitchen or bathroom installation is seen as a property investment and will increase the value of your home by typically up to 15%.

When homes for sale are viewed, typically the house purchaser will migrate straight to the kitchen or bathroom and this will be their first impression.

Most national house builders view dining rooms as a thing of the past and choose open plan designs with the kitchen being even more the heart of the home.

Typical kitchen current trends are bright pink kitchen accents and for the main kitchen, darker painted colours with less kitchen units and more open units.

For bathrooms, white ceramics are still most of the market.

The average price of a fully fitted kitchen when purchased via national retailers would be circa £8,000 and the average via an independent retailer is typically around £15,000.

There are around 3,000 UK Independent retailers who tend to fit on average one kitchen per week, with an average turnover around £750,000.

There are a greater number of independent bathroom retailers installing on average two bathrooms per week of around 4,000 outlets with average fully fitted prices of £8,000 and £5,000 for a national retailer. 

If you’re looking for a kitchen or bathroom design job, then Simon Acres Recruitment typically have 100 plus UK wide design roles available with both independent retailers and builders merchants merchants.

For additional kbb information, there are various associations that cover the sector such as the BMF Builders Merchant Federation, KBSA The kitchen bathroom bedroom specialist’s association, BMA Bathroom Manufacturers Association, SBID Society of British & International Designers and BIKBBI The British Institute of Kitchen, Bedroom & Bathrooms installation.