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View Full Kitchen Renovation Guide →A kitchen renovation in Central London is rarely just a kitchen. It usually involves layout surgery, hidden structural work, services relocation and a careful balance between period character and the way people cook, gather and work today.
The region's stucco townhouses, listed terraces, mansion flats, lateral apartments and lower-ground residences come with tight service zones, chimney breasts, awkward floor levels and conservation-sensitive details. We resolve those constraints with designers and builders working as one team instead of handing the hard parts off to a separate design studio.
From Marylebone, Mayfair, Belgravia, and Knightsbridge to the wider Central London market, our kitchen projects combine bespoke cabinetry, appliance planning, lighting, flooring and any enabling works required to create a coherent open-plan result.
Every kitchen layout starts with the work triangle — the relationship between hob, sink and fridge. We then optimise for storage, circulation, seating and the way your household actually uses the room.
Two runs along adjacent walls, opening the room for a dining table or island. The most versatile layout for London's Victorian and Edwardian rear extensions.
Best for: side-return extensions, open-plan dinersA central island combines prep space, seating and storage with a perimeter run behind. The aspirational London kitchen layout — requires at least 4m width for comfortable circulation.
Best for: rear extensions, open-plan kitchen-dinersTwo parallel runs in a narrower space — the most efficient layout for smaller London kitchens. Minimises wasted movement and maximises worktop and storage within a compact footprint.
Best for: narrow rooms, apartments, cottagesA structured process that gives you complete clarity at every stage — no surprises, no ambiguity, no "we'll figure that out on site" moments.
We visit your home, measure the existing kitchen and any adjoining spaces, photograph the room from every angle and discuss your brief in detail. How do you cook? Do you entertain? Do the children do homework at the island? Do you need a utility area? A pantry? We want to understand how this room functions in your daily life — not just how you'd like it to look. If structural alterations are involved (wall removal, extension, floor lowering), our architects and engineers assess feasibility at this stage.
Our kitchen designer produces a full concept layout: plan view, elevations and photorealistic 3D renders showing your kitchen from multiple angles with your chosen cabinetry style, worktop material, splashback and flooring. You'll see exactly where every appliance sits, how the lighting scheme works, where the bins live and how the drawers are organised. We present two to three layout options and refine your preferred direction based on feedback. Materials and finishes are selected from physical samples in our studio.
The existing kitchen is carefully stripped out — including any walls, floors or services that are being altered. If your project involves removing a load-bearing wall (the most common structural element in a kitchen-diner conversion), our engineers' steelwork is installed during this phase. New drainage routes, gas supplies, electrical circuits and water feeds are roughed in to the positions specified in the design. This is the messiest phase — typically one to two weeks — after which the space is clean, level and ready for the kitchen installation.
Cabinetry is delivered and installed by our specialist kitchen fitters — not general carpenters. Worktops are templated, fabricated and fitted (stone worktops require a template visit after cabinet installation to ensure a perfect fit). Appliances are connected, tiling and splashbacks completed, flooring laid, second fix electrics and plumbing finished, and the kitchen is decorated. Lighting is commissioned — including under-cabinet, pendant and any architectural lighting — and the final clean brings everything to handover standard.
We conduct a thorough snag inspection before inviting you to walk through the finished kitchen. Every detail is checked: drawer alignment, door gaps, worktop joints, grouting, appliance function, light dimming, tap flow and socket positions. Any items are resolved before formal handover. You receive a complete kitchen pack: appliance manuals and warranties, material care guides, paint and grout references, and our 12-month defects liability guarantee.
Guide prices for complete kitchen renovations in London. Every tier includes design, all building work, cabinetry, worktops, appliances, tiling, flooring and decoration.
What separates a Hampstead Renovations kitchen from a kitchen design studio or a builder with a catalogue.
Kitchen design studios design but don't build. Builders build but don't design. We do both — which means the kitchen is designed knowing exactly how the structural work, services and finishes will be delivered. No handoff gaps, no miscommunication, no surprises.
Every kitchen is rendered in photorealistic 3D before any work begins. You see exactly how your stone, cabinetry, lighting and appliances work together — and can make changes at no cost while the design is still on screen.
Most London kitchen renovations involve removing at least one wall. Our in-house structural engineers design the steelwork, our builders install it and the kitchen designer plans around it from the start. One contract, one price, one team.
We hold accounts with Miele, Gaggenau, NEFF, Bosch, Sub-Zero, Wolf, Fisher & Paykel, Bora, Quooker and more. Trade pricing is passed directly to you — typically 15–25% below retail.
We source, template and install marble, granite, quartzite and Dekton worktops. Our stone specialist accompanies you to the yard to hand-select your exact slab — no surprises with veining or colour.
Under-cabinet task lighting, pendant features, recessed ceiling spots and architectural accent lighting are designed as part of the kitchen — not bolted on as an afterthought.
In Victorian and Georgian homes, we design kitchens that respect the building's proportions — ceiling heights, sightlines and joinery detailing that acknowledge the property's period character.
We design adjacent utility rooms, boot rooms and walk-in pantries as part of the kitchen scheme — maximising working storage and keeping the main kitchen uncluttered.
Multi-room audio, smart lighting control, boiling/chilled water taps and integrated charging stations designed into the kitchen from the outset — wired, not retrofitted.
We install electric or wet underfloor heating beneath kitchen flooring as standard on most projects — eliminating radiators and freeing up wall space for cabinetry.
Integrated waste sorting, recycling drawers and composting solutions designed into the cabinetry — because bin placement is one of the most underestimated details in kitchen design.
Selected kitchen renovations completed by our design-and-build team across London.
Full side-return extension creating a 35sqm open-plan kitchen-diner with bespoke island, Gaggenau appliances and Calacatta marble worktops.
Handpainted Shaker kitchen with integrated pantry, natural stone floor and period-appropriate joinery details in a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse.
High-specification galley kitchen with German handleless cabinetry, integrated Miele appliances and Dekton worktops in a compact but beautifully optimised layout.
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Visit Hampstead On Demand →We spent months going round kitchen design studios and getting quotes that didn't include the building work. Hampstead Renovations quoted one fixed price for everything — the wall removal, the steelwork, the electrics, the kitchen itself and the decoration. The 3D renders were so accurate that the finished kitchen looked identical to what we'd approved on screen.
The designer spent a full morning understanding how we cook before drawing a single line. The island positioning, the pan drawer layout, the concealed spice rack next to the hob — these aren't details you get from a catalogue kitchen. Six months on and every single design decision has proven right.
Our galley kitchen in a small Victorian terrace was transformed into something that works brilliantly despite only being 12 square metres. They managed to fit in a full-height fridge-freezer, integrated dishwasher, oven stack and more drawer storage than we had in our old kitchen which was twice the size. Exceptional space planning.
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Bespoke kitchens and open-plan reworking for mansion flats, Georgian townhouses and medical-quarter apartments.
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