Stylish FTXA

The Stylish is Daikin's designer wall split and, for most homes, the sweet spot in the range. It pairs the slimmest cabinet Daikin makes, just 189 mm deep, with the widest choice of finishes on the UK market and A+++ efficiency on the smaller sizes, so it earns its place in a living room or bedroom where a plain white box would look wrong. Those 2.0 to 3.5 kW sizes are A+++ in both cooling and heating and settle to a genuinely bedroom-quiet 19 dB(A).

You pay a premium over the plainer Perfera for the looks and the slim profile rather than for extra cooling, and the larger 4.2 and 5.0 kW units step down to A++. But the build, the quiet running and Daikin's after-sales network are hard to fault, which makes the Stylish one of the easiest premium splits to recommend for a design-led room.

The Stylish (model code FTXA-B or FTXA-C indoors, FTXA-D for the 2026 textured fronts, RXA-A8/B8 outdoors) is a wall-mounted R32 split: one indoor unit paired with an outdoor condenser, or an indoor unit running on a Daikin multi-split system serving several rooms. It is a reverse-cycle unit, meaning it heats as well as cools. What sets it apart from a standard split is the cabinet, a flat, ultra-slim front just 189 mm deep, the shallowest Daikin makes, with the airflow outlets concealed so it recedes into the wall rather than jutting out. For the wider picture, including how big a unit you need, see our wall-mounted air conditioners guide.

It suits anyone who wants the room to look considered rather than kitted out. There is a choice of eight finishes, from white, silver and matt black to imitation wood, fabric and leather-look fronts, the widest on the UK domestic market. Behind the design it is a proper performer: A+++ efficiency and 19 dB(A) quiet running on the smaller sizes, Flash Streamer air purification, a titanium apatite deodorising filter, a grid-eye sensor that steers airflow away from people, and built-in Wi-Fi through the Onecta app.

Five sizes cover 2.0 to 5.0 kW, roughly small bedroom to open-plan living room. If you want the same Daikin engineering without the designer premium, the plainer Perfera is the value pick; if you want a curved statement piece, the Emura is the alternative. The Stylish is the one to choose when a slim, quiet, good-looking unit matters as much as the numbers.

Supplied and fitted, a Daikin Stylish runs from roughly £2,100 to £2,900 across the domestic sizes for a straightforward single-room install. As a guide, a 2.5 kW unit starts from about £2,146 fitted with a standard 3 to 5 m pipe run, and a 3.5 kW from £2,326, while Costco's installed 3.5 kW package is £2,599.99 in white or £2,699.99 in silver (2.5 kW white £2,399.99). Longer pipe runs, larger sizes, a specialist finish or a harder install push the figure up, so treat these as indicative and always work from a written quote. There is no self-install option, as an R32 split has to be fitted by an F-Gas certified engineer by law.

Running costs are low for a premium unit. The smaller Stylish units reach SCOP 5.15, so in heating they return roughly five units of warmth for every unit of electricity, and cooling a 2.5 kW unit at steady load costs only a few pence to around 15p an hour at an electricity unit rate of 26.32p per kWh (the Ofgem price cap as of October 2026). Your real cost depends on the room, the weather and how long you run it. Prices correct as of October 2026, with electricity rates for the October to December 2026 price cap; the energy price cap changes quarterly, so check current rates before budgeting.