The room that is used hardest and bought fastest
A kitchen is the most expensive furniture in most houses and the only piece exposed to heat, steam and water every single day. It is also the one most often chosen from a photograph, which is how a beautiful kitchen ends up swelling at the base within two summers.
What follows is what we would tell you across a table. The doors are the easy part; everything that decides whether the kitchen lasts is behind them.
What actually matters, before the design does.
The carcass is the box the doors hang on. Water-resistant plywood survives a leaking trap; ordinary MDF or particle board swells permanently and never recovers its shape. If a quotation does not say what the carcass is made of, that is the first question to ask.
Hinges and drawer runners are opened and shut several thousand times a year. Soft-close hardware from a known maker, rated for the weight of the door or the loaded drawer, is the difference between a kitchen that still closes properly in year five and one that does not. It is also where cost is most often quietly saved.
Granite, quartz and solid surface each behave differently around a sink cut-out and at the joints, which is where almost every worktop complaint begins. Decide the sink and hob before the worktop is templated, not after.
Plumbing, electrical points, extraction and gas should be set out against the kitchen drawing before any carcass is built. Moving a socket after installation means cutting a finished panel, and it is always visible afterwards.
Send us the room dimensions and a rough plan, or a photograph of the space as it stands. We will tell you what the layout allows before anything is costed.
Every piece is built after you order it — your size, your wood, your finish.
Send a photograph and rough dimensions. We will come back with options and a price.