A design and build company, obsessed with kitchens. Every project starts there, whatever it grows into.
Sometimes the kitchen space in your home just isn't right for the kitchen you need — too small, too dark, too cold, or simply in the wrong place. We know how to fix that.
How we begin
How it starts
Come and talk to us. It costs nothing, but you will leave a design consultation with good advice and meaningful budgets from people who deliver kitchen projects week after week. We'll look over whatever you're happy to share – ideally floor plans, existing photos, and some images of kitchens and spaces you like. Our free design consultations can take place in person at one of our showrooms, or virtually.
It starts with the layout
It starts with a brief, usually in your existing kitchen. Is there a home for everything, so the worktops stay clear? Does the layout actually work, or does it just look like it does on paper? We ask what works in your current kitchen, what doesn't, and what's driving the change. We look at the images you've saved, survey your existing storage so we know what needs to fit into the new cabinets, and photograph and measure anything you want to keep. Then we measure everything else, so we can rebuild your space accurately in 3D.
A wall, a window, a door — most kitchen designers treat these as fixed. We don't. If moving one makes the kitchen work properly, we design it that way, and we build it too.
Not just a kitchen company
Our obsession is with the whole kitchen space, not just the cabinets. Combining architectural design with kitchen expertise, we might propose a wall coming down for a walk-in pantry instead of a pull-out larder, a structural opening to make the room bigger, or designing the rear extension itself. Lighting, heating, flooring — it's all part of the proposal, and so is anywhere else the change touches: hallways, utility rooms, cloakrooms, whatever's affected.
What we end up proposing depends on what comes out of your consultation and brief. If planning permission's needed, your designer prepares and submits the application.
See it before it's real
Photorealistic 3D visuals, not a floor plan you have to imagine
No-one can picture a kitchen from a 2D floor plan, and even a hand sketch only gets you so far. We build it in photo-realistic 3D instead, so you know exactly what you're getting — the layout, the look, what it'll actually feel like to stand in — before anything's committed.
The layout tells us what's next...
Once we know what the ideal layout actually requires, it's clear what kind of project this is. Sometimes that's a straightforward internal change, with no feasibility study or planning application needed at all.
Other times it calls for a full extension — which means a proper feasibility assessment and, where planning permission applies, a full application. For most residential projects, our own design team handles this directly, with a genuine feel for what these councils approve.
Where structural work is involved, we bring in a structural engineer to make sure it's sound and properly signed off. Party wall matters are handled the same way — only when the project actually needs one, since plenty of the best designs don't.
Why it’s important to combine the kitchen design process with the design of the space.
Here is an example of two viable kitchen design alternatives in plan view. The 2D plan of the spaces look identical, with only the cabinet location changing.
Here are the elevations showing the outside walls for the two proposals. If this project related to an extension, then the kitchen design would affect the planning application.