Bespoke Fitted Kitchen Specialists · London

Fitted Kitchens Built Around Your Room

Bespoke fitted kitchens designed, made and installed by one team — hand-built cabinetry, premium stone worktops and fully integrated appliances, with the structural, open-plan, plumbing and electrical work handled too. Designed by our in-house team and built by directly-employed trades under one fixed-price contract, from first concept to the final adjustment.

A Single Fixed-Price Contract
Designed, made and fitted in-house
Bespoke kitchen designIncluded
Hand-built cabinetryIncluded
Stone worktopsIncluded
Structural & open-plan workIncluded
Plumbing, electrics, lightingIncluded
Aftercare warranty10 years
103+
Completed Projects
Bespoke
Cabinetry Makers
In-House
Kitchen Design
Structural
Open-Plan Capable
NICEIC
Certified Electrics
Gas Safe
Plumbing & Gas
£10M
Fully Insured
RICS
Chartered Surveyors
£25k£150k
Quality to Fully
Bespoke
1220
Design to Finish
Weeks
One Team
Design, Build & Fit
100%
Fixed-Price
No Hidden Cost-Plus

A Kitchen Built Around Your Room

A fitted kitchen should look as though it was made for the room — because it was. The difference between a bespoke fitted kitchen and an off-the-shelf range is not just quality; it is fit. Standard units come in fixed widths and leave you with filler panels, awkward corners and dead space. A kitchen designed and built for your room uses every centimetre, resolves the tricky junctions with the walls and windows, and gives you the storage and the worktop runs you actually need.

This page is for the fitted kitchen, the bespoke kitchen, the handmade kitchen — designed, manufactured and installed by one team. As a design-and-build contractor rather than a showroom, we do not just supply cabinets and leave the building work to someone else. We handle the whole project under one fixed-price contract: the design, the bespoke cabinetry, the stone, the appliances, and the structural, plumbing, electrical and decorating work around them. If the kitchen is part of a wider kitchen renovation or a move to open-plan living, it all comes from the same studio.

The cabinetry is made by our long-standing framework joinery partners — solid timber carcasses, dovetail-jointed drawers and the finish of your choice, from hand-painted in-frame to seamless handleless. Worktops are selected slab by slab from our specified stone yards. Appliances are specified to how you actually cook. And because the same team installs the kitchen and does the building work, there is never a gap between the kitchen company and the builder — the most common source of delay, blame and compromise on a kitchen project.

We have designed and fitted kitchens across NW3, NW8, NW1, W1, W11 and SW London — galley kitchens in mansion flats, broken-plan kitchen-living spaces in Victorian terraces, and large family kitchens in Edwardian and contemporary homes. Each is designed around the room and the family it serves.

The value of a single team becomes obvious the moment a kitchen project hits a problem. When the wall comes down and the brickwork is not where the survey suggested, or the drainage runs the wrong way, or the floor is two centimetres out of level, a showroom kitchen designer cannot help you — they have sold you cabinets and moved on, and the builder you separately engaged will tell you it is the kitchen company's problem. Because we design, supply and build, those moments are simply resolved on site by the people responsible for the whole result. There is no one to pass the blame to, because there is only us.

It also changes how the kitchen is designed in the first place. Knowing exactly what is behind the walls, what the services can do and what the structure allows, we design a kitchen that can actually be built as drawn — rather than a beautiful plan that unravels the moment the first cabinet is offered up. The island lands where the steel and the drainage allow; the run of tall units fits because we measured and made to the millimetre; the extraction works because we ducted it properly. That is the difference between a kitchen that photographs well and one that works for twenty years.

Six Fitted Kitchen Styles We Make

Because the cabinetry is bespoke, the style is yours to set. These are the six directions we are asked for most, each made to measure for your room.

Timeless

Shaker

The classic five-piece frame-and-panel door, hand-painted in a colour of your choice. Versatile across period and modern homes, and the most-requested style in London — warm, enduring and never quite dated.

Best forPeriod & family homes
FinishHand-painted timber
Heritage

In-Frame Classic

Doors set within a solid timber frame — the most traditional and finely crafted construction, with the tightest shadow lines. The choice for Georgian, Victorian and listed homes where the kitchen should feel like fine furniture.

Best forPeriod & listed homes
FinishHand-painted in-frame
Contemporary

Handleless

Clean slab doors with a recessed rail or push-to-open mechanism — no visible handles, uninterrupted lines. Crisp and architectural, ideal for contemporary and open-plan spaces where the kitchen reads as furniture.

Best forModern & open-plan
FinishPainted / veneer / laminate
Warmth & Texture

Timber & Veneer

Natural oak, walnut or smoked timber veneers, often paired with painted or stone elements. Brings warmth and grain into a modern scheme — the contemporary kitchen that still feels organic rather than clinical.

Best forModern & biophilic
FinishNatural wood veneer
Urban

Industrial

Stainless steel, blackened metal, concrete-effect surfaces and exposed shelving — the professional-kitchen aesthetic, executed with domestic refinement. A strong look for warehouse conversions and bold contemporary homes.

Best forLofts & modern homes
FinishSteel & matte
The Social Hub

Island & Broken-Plan

Designed around a large island that anchors an open or broken-plan living space — seating, storage and prep in one piece. The kitchen as the heart of the home, designed together with the structural opening it sits within.

Best forOpen-plan living
FinishAny — island-led

What a Fitted Kitchen Project Actually Includes

A kitchen is the most complex room in the house. Every element below is delivered and warranted under one fixed-price agreement — not split between a kitchen company and a separate builder.

Bespoke Kitchen Design

In-house design developing the layout, the work-flow and the cabinetry around your room and how you cook — with full drawings, elevations and a 3D visualisation so you see the finished kitchen before a single unit is made.

Hand-Built Cabinetry

Solid timber carcasses, dovetail-jointed drawers, soft-close Blum hardware and the door style of your choice — made to your exact dimensions by our framework joinery partners and hand-finished, with no filler panels or dead space.

Worktops & Splashbacks

Stone selected slab by slab — book-matched marble, quartzite, sintered surfaces, honed limestone or solid timber — templated to the millimetre, with matching or contrasting splashbacks, upstands and waterfall ends.

Appliance Integration

Appliances specified to how you cook and seamlessly integrated — from Bosch and Miele to Sub-Zero & Wolf, Gaggenau and La Cornue — with proper provision for the ducting, power and clearances each one needs.

Structural & Open-Plan

Where the project opens up the space, the wall removal, steel beam and making-good are part of the same contract — the kitchen and the structural opening designed together, not by two separate firms.

Plumbing & Gas

Sinks, taps, dishwashers, water filtration and any gas connection installed and certified by our Gas Safe registered engineers — with pipework re-routed cleanly to suit the new layout.

Electrics & Lighting

NICEIC-certified circuits, appliance supplies, and a layered lighting scheme — task lighting over worktops and the island, under-cabinet lighting, and ambient and feature lighting, all on dimming or scene control.

Extraction & Ventilation

A properly sized, ducted extractor vented to outside — essential in an open-plan kitchen — sized to the hob and the room, and quiet enough to live with.

Flooring

Engineered timber, large-format porcelain or natural stone, often on underfloor heating, laid level and run through into adjoining spaces where the kitchen is open-plan.

Pantry & Utility Joinery

Bespoke larders, boot-rooms and utility rooms designed alongside the kitchen — the storage and the laundry that keep the main kitchen uncluttered, made in the same joinery shop to match.

Plaster & Decoration

Making-good, plastering and full decoration of the kitchen and any opened-up space, so the finished room is complete — not a new kitchen against tired walls and ceilings.

Snagging & Aftercare

A two-stage snag, appliance commissioning and demonstration, a 12-month defects period and a 10-year workmanship warranty, plus a service visit at six months.

The Six Things That Make a Kitchen Work

A beautiful kitchen that does not work is a daily frustration. These are the six things we resolve at design stage.

i.

The Work Triangle

Sink, hob and fridge arranged so cooking flows without crossing the room. The single most important — and most often ignored — principle of a kitchen that is a pleasure to use.

ii.

Storage That Fits Your Life

Designed around what you actually own — deep drawers for pans, tall larders, integrated bins and recycling, appliance garages. Bespoke means storage built for you, not generic cupboards.

iii.

Worktop You Can Live With

The right stone for how you cook — marble is beautiful but stains, quartzite and sintered surfaces are tougher. We advise honestly so you love it in five years, not just on day one.

iv.

Layered Lighting

Task lighting where you prep, ambient light for the room, and feature lighting over the island — on scene control. A kitchen lit by a single ceiling light never feels right.

v.

The Island, Sized Right

An island should leave generous clearance all around and earn its space with seating, storage or a prep zone — not crammed in because islands are fashionable. We size it to the room.

vi.

Quiet, Effective Extraction

Especially in open-plan, extraction that actually clears cooking and is quiet enough to talk over — the unglamorous detail that decides whether you enjoy an open kitchen or regret it.

Eight Stages, From Brief to Handover

A bespoke kitchen rewards a disciplined process. Here is how we run yours.

0
Stage 0 · Brief

Free Consultation

We discuss how you cook and entertain, what frustrates you about your current kitchen, and your budget — at our studio or your home. No charge, no obligation.

Week 0 · Free
1
Stage 1 · Survey

Measured Survey

A precise survey of the room, services and any structural considerations — the basis for a design that fits perfectly and a firm price.

Within 1–2 weeks
2
Stage 2 · Design

Layout, Style & 3D

The layout, cabinetry, materials and lighting developed and presented in plans and a 3D visualisation, refined with you until the kitchen is exactly right.

3–5 weeks
3
Stage 3 · Specification

Materials & Appliances

Stone selected at the yard, appliances confirmed, finishes and hardware signed off — every detail fixed and costed before manufacturing begins.

1–2 weeks
4
Stage 4 · Manufacture

Cabinetry Made to Order

Your bespoke cabinetry hand-built in the workshop while any structural and first-fix work proceeds on site — the two running in parallel to save time.

6–10 weeks lead time
5
Stage 5 · Build & Install

Site Works & Fit

Any opening-up, first fix, plastering, then cabinetry install, worktop template and fit, appliances, splashbacks, lighting and flooring. Weekly updates throughout.

2–4 weeks on site
6
Stage 6 · Handover

Commissioning & Handover

Appliances commissioned and demonstrated, a joint snagging walk, the certification pack and handover of your finished kitchen.

Completion
7
Stage 7 · Aftercare

Defects Period & Warranty

A 12-month defects period, a six-month service visit and a 10-year workmanship warranty.

12 months + 10-year warranty

Four Tiers, Honestly Drawn

What a fitted kitchen costs depends on the cabinetry, stone and appliances you choose. Here is how our four tiers differ.

Element
HeritageQuality
ConsideredHigh-End
ConnoisseurPremium
AtelierSuper-Prime
Cabinetry
Quality painted, soft-close
Bespoke painted timber, dovetail
Hand-painted solid hardwood, in-frame
Fully bespoke oak/walnut, brass fittings
Worktops
Quartz composite, 20mm
Honed marble or dolomite, 30mm
Book-matched quartzite, waterfall
Slab-thick natural stone, 60mm
Appliances
Bosch / Siemens
Miele / Neff
Sub-Zero, Wolf, Miele
Gaggenau 400, La Cornue
Hardware
Blum soft-close
Blum Legrabox, brass handles
Premium ironmongery
Bespoke cast brass / bronze
Lighting
Under-cabinet + downlights
Layered, dimmable, scene
Lutron RA2, feature lighting
Lutron HomeWorks, architectural
Storage
Standard internals
Bespoke drawers, larder
Pantry, appliance garage
Full bespoke larder + utility
Indicative (supplied + fitted)
£25k–£40k
£45k–£65k
£65k–£90k
£90k–£150k+

Where Your Budget Actually Goes

For a representative high-end fitted kitchen at around £55,000 supplied and installed, here is where every pound is spent.

Bespoke cabinetry
34%
Worktops & stone
16%
Appliances
18%
Installation & joinery labour
12%
Plumbing, electrics & lighting
9%
Flooring & decoration
5%
Design & project management
4%
Contingency (held by client)
2%

The Craft Behind the Cabinetry

A bespoke kitchen is joinery and engineering. Here is what is actually built and installed.

Cabinetry Construction

  • Carcasses: Solid timber or moisture-resistant furniture board, glued and pinned, built to your exact dimensions
  • Drawers: Dovetail-jointed timber drawer boxes on Blum Legrabox or Tandembox runners, soft-close
  • Doors: Hand-painted in-frame, shaker or slab; veneer or laminate on contemporary schemes
  • Finish: Multi-coat hand-applied or factory paint, in any colour, fully repairable in future

Worktops & Stone

  • Natural stone: Marble, quartzite, granite and limestone — selected by slab, sealed and templated digitally
  • Engineered: Quartz composite and sintered surfaces (Dekton, Neolith) for durability and large formats
  • Detailing: Mitred edges, waterfall ends, integrated drainer grooves and matching upstands
  • Sinks: Undermount, integrated or Belfast, with quality brassware to specification

Services & Compliance

  • Electrics: NICEIC-certified circuits to BS 7671, Part P self-certified, appliance supplies and data
  • Plumbing: Hot, cold and waste re-routed to the layout; water filtration and boiling taps where specified
  • Gas: Hob and any range connection by Gas Safe registered engineers, certified
  • Extraction: Ducted to outside, sized to the hob and room, with quiet motors

Integration

  • Appliances: Fully integrated with correct clearances, ventilation and access for service
  • Lighting: Under-cabinet, in-cabinet, task and feature lighting, scene-controlled
  • Storage: Pull-outs, larders, recycling, appliance garages and bespoke internals
  • Structure: Floor strengthening for heavy islands, and steel where the room is opened up
A fitted kitchen is the one room you use every single day. It is worth the difference between cabinets pushed against a wall and joinery built for the room — you feel it every morning for the next twenty years.
— Hampstead Renovations · Studio Statement

The Kitchen as the Heart of the Home

More and more of our fitted kitchens are part of opening up the ground floor — and designing the two together is the difference between a kitchen and a great open-plan living space.

The modern kitchen is rarely a separate room any more — it is the heart of an open-plan or broken-plan living space where the family cooks, eats, works and relaxes. Designing the kitchen and the structural opening as one piece of work is what makes that space succeed: the island positioned to anchor the room and screen the working kitchen, the extraction sized for an open space, the lighting zoned, and the cabinetry detailed as furniture because it is on show from the sofa.

Because we are a design-and-build contractor, we do both. The same studio that designs your kitchen removes the load-bearing wall on an engineered steel beam, resolves the beam detail so there is no clumsy downstand, runs the flooring through, and decorates the whole space. There is no hand-off between a kitchen showroom and a builder — the most common reason open-plan kitchens end up with an awkward step, a misplaced radiator or an extractor that cannot cope.

If opening up is part of your plan, our open-plan living and knock-through pages cover the structural side in depth, and our kitchen extensions page covers adding floor area. Here, the point is simple: the kitchen and the space it sits in should be designed by one team. For an early budget, use the cost calculator.

A Fitted Kitchen, Week by Week

A representative programme for a high-end fitted kitchen with some opening-up. Yours will differ by scope, but this is what a properly run kitchen project looks like.

Week
Phase
Activity
Pre
Design & Make
Design signed off, stone selected, cabinetry in manufacture (6–10 week lead time) while site prep is planned.
01
Strip Out
Old kitchen removed, services isolated, any wall to be removed prepared and propped.
01–02
Structure
Load-bearing wall removed and steel installed where the space is being opened up; floor levelled.
02–03
First Fix
Plumbing and electrical first fix to the new layout, underfloor heating, plasterboarding and skim.
04
Cabinetry Install
Bespoke cabinetry delivered and installed, levelled and scribed to the walls.
04–05
Worktops
Worktops templated, fabricated and fitted; splashbacks and upstands installed.
05
Second Fix
Appliances installed and connected, sink and taps, lighting, sockets, extraction commissioned.
06
Flooring & Decoration
Flooring laid, full decoration, handles and final details fitted.
06
Snag & Handover
Appliance demonstration, snag list resolved, deep clean, certification and handover.

What Sets Our Fitted Kitchens Apart

There is a real difference between a kitchen showroom and a design-and-build contractor. Here is what ours gives you.

i

One Team, Whole Project

Design, cabinetry, structure, services and finishes under one fixed-price contract — no gap between the kitchen company and the builder.

ii

Truly Bespoke

Cabinetry built to your room and your storage, hand-finished — no filler panels, no dead corners, no compromise to a standard width.

iii

Open-Plan Capable

We remove the wall and design the kitchen together — the structural opening and the kitchen resolved as one.

iv

Directly-Employed Trades

Our core joiners, electricians and plumbers are PAYE staff — continuity of standard from job to job.

v

Stone Selected by Slab

You choose your worktop at the yard, slab by slab — book-matched and templated to the millimetre.

vi

£10M Insurance

Professional indemnity and public liability at £10M, well above industry standard.

vii

NICEIC & Gas Safe

Certified electrical and gas work, self-certified and fully documented — not sub-let to an unknown trade.

viii

10-Year Warranty

An insurance-backed workmanship warranty protecting the whole project long after completion.

Explore Related Kitchen & Living Work

A fitted kitchen often sits within a wider project. Start here, or speak to us about combining it under one contract.

Fitted Kitchen Proof

Comparable projects with real kitchens and finishing standards. Start with our kitchen extension case study, then browse the wider case-study hub.

Detailed Answers to the Questions That Matter

What is a fitted kitchen, and what makes it bespoke?

A fitted kitchen is one designed and built into your specific room rather than assembled from off-the-shelf units — cabinetry, worktops and appliances integrated as a single, considered scheme. We make ours bespoke: cabinets built to your exact dimensions and storage needs, hand-finished, and detailed to suit the architecture of the room, so there are no awkward filler panels and every centimetre works. The result looks like joinery that was always part of the house, not boxes pushed against a wall.

How much does a fitted kitchen cost in London in 2026?

As a guide for prime London: a quality fitted kitchen typically starts around £25,000–£40,000 supplied and installed; a high-end bespoke kitchen with stone worktops and premium appliances £45,000–£80,000; and a fully bespoke, hand-built kitchen with super-prime appliances and integration £90,000–£150,000+. Where the project also involves structural work to open up the space, that is costed separately. Use the cost calculator for an early band, then we firm it up at design stage.

What is the difference between a fitted kitchen and a bespoke kitchen?

A fitted kitchen is installed into the room; a bespoke kitchen is one where the cabinetry is purpose-made to your design rather than chosen from a standard range. All our fitted kitchens are bespoke — designed for your room, made to measure and hand-finished — which is why they fit perfectly and offer storage and detailing a modular range cannot. In practice the terms overlap, and this page covers both: a fitted, bespoke kitchen designed, made and installed by one team.

How long does a fitted kitchen take to design and install?

Design typically takes 3–5 weeks, bespoke cabinetry has a 6–10 week manufacturing lead time, and installation is usually 2–4 weeks on site (longer where structural or open-plan work is involved). From first design meeting to a finished kitchen is therefore commonly 12–20 weeks. We give you a clear programme before work starts, and sequence the trades so the kitchen install runs cleanly.

Do you handle the building work, plumbing and electrics too?

Yes — this is the advantage of using a design-and-build contractor rather than a kitchen showroom. We deliver the whole project under one fixed-price contract: any structural opening, the plumbing, the electrics and lighting, the flooring, the plastering and decoration, as well as the cabinetry and worktops. One team, one point of accountability, with our own trades — so there is no gap between "the kitchen company" and "the builder".

Can you create an open-plan kitchen as part of the project?

Yes, and it is one of our most common projects. We remove the wall between the kitchen and the adjoining room — on an engineered steel beam where it is load-bearing — and design the new kitchen as part of an open-plan or broken-plan living space. The structural side is covered on our knock-through and open-plan living pages; here, the point is that the kitchen and the opening are designed together, not by two separate firms.

What appliances and worktops do you offer?

Any specification you wish. Appliances from Bosch and Siemens through Miele and Neff to Sub-Zero & Wolf, Gaggenau and La Cornue. Worktops in quartz composite, honed marble and dolomite, book-matched quartzite, sintered surfaces (Dekton, Neolith) or solid timber and stainless steel. We have specified stone yards in Battersea and Park Royal where you can view and select your slab. We advise on durability and maintenance so the choice suits how you actually cook and live.

Do you offer in-frame, shaker, handleless and modern styles?

Yes — because the cabinetry is bespoke, the style is open. We make traditional in-frame and shaker kitchens with hand-painted timber, classic and period-appropriate designs, and sleek handleless and slab-door contemporary kitchens in painted, veneered or laminate finishes. We match the style to the architecture of your home and to how you want the kitchen to feel, rather than to a fixed range.

Do I need planning permission or building regulations for a new fitted kitchen?

Replacing a kitchen within the existing layout needs neither — it is simply a refit. Building Regulations apply to the electrical work (notifiable under Part P, which our NICEIC electricians self-certify) and to any structural work if you open up the space. Planning permission only comes into play if the project also extends the house, or for a Listed building. We confirm what your project needs and manage any approvals.

Will a new fitted kitchen add value to my home?

The kitchen is consistently the room that most influences a buyer, and a well-designed, well-built fitted kitchen — particularly one that creates a bright, sociable space — is among the most reliable improvements for both saleability and value in the London market. As with any renovation, quality matters: a cheap kitchen poorly fitted can date quickly, whereas a properly designed bespoke kitchen built into the room holds its appeal for many years.
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Begin Your Fitted Kitchen

Book a no-obligation consultation at our Finchley Road design studio or in your home. The first meeting is free, lasts 60–90 minutes, and concludes with an honest indication of feasibility, programme and budget band. No salespeople. No pressure.

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