Refresh
from$6,500
- New doors, drawer fronts and handles
- New worktop, sink and tap
- Plinths, lighting and splashback updated
A kitchen planned around the way you cook
Kitchens designed in your own home, drawn up in 3D and fitted by our joiners, plumbers and electricians under one project lead. Happy with the layout you have? We refit doors, worktops, sinks and appliances on the cabinets already there.
One leadfrom first sketch to handover
3 to 4 weekson site for most remodels
Fixed priceonce the design is signed
- Design visits in your home
- One project lead, one crew
- Licensed trades for gas and power
- Written schedule before day one
Three ways to a new kitchen
Starting prices for a medium kitchen of about 12 m², including design, fitting and taking the old kitchen away. Bring your own appliances or choose them through us.
Full remodel
from$28,000
- New cabinets in the layout you have now
- Worktops, appliances, flooring and lighting
- Tiling and decorating to finish
Layout change
from$45,000
- Walls opened up or moved, with an engineer where needed
- An island or peninsula with its own power and water
- Everything in the full remodel
After the design visit every price is fixed and itemised, so you can see what each part of the kitchen costs before you commit.
Which layout fits the room?
The shape of the room usually picks the layout. What matters most is a short walk between the fridge, the sink and the hob.
| Layout | Works best in | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Single wall | Narrow rooms and studio flats | Add a table or a trolley for extra preparation space |
| Galley | Long rooms with a door at each end | Leave about 1.2 m between the runs so two people can pass |
| L shaped | Open plan rooms with a dining area | Corner units need carousels or a blind corner fitting |
| U shaped | Square rooms with one main cook | Plenty of storage, but check the window and door positions |
| Island | Larger rooms, about 4 m wide and up | Allow around 1 m of clear floor on every side |
| Peninsula | Rooms a little too narrow for an island | Seating and worktop without a walkway behind |
Doors and worktops clients choose most
Full size door samples and worktop offcuts come to the design visit, so you see them in the light of your own kitchen.
Aubergine shakerPainted, framed door
Warm white mattHandleless slab
Sage in framePainted, in frame
Oak veneerDoors and open shelves
WalnutTall pantry units
White quartzWorktop with soft veins
Honed black graniteWorktop that takes heat
TerrazzoWorktop and splashback
One crew from strip out to the last cupboard door
A kitchen touches almost every trade in the house: joinery, plumbing, wiring, gas, plaster, tiling and flooring. Ours are coordinated by one project lead who is on site most days and answers the phone when you call, so nobody waits on somebody else's diary.
Gas and electrical work is carried out and signed off by licensed trades, as the rules require where you live, and those rules vary by country. While the room is out of action we can set up a temporary sink and worktop elsewhere in the house.
- Old kitchen stripped out and taken away
- Dust screens and floor protection from day one
- Stone worktops templated once the cabinets are in
- Every appliance shown working at handover
Kitchens finished this year
Six recent projects, from a door and worktop refresh to an open plan remodel.
From the first sketch to the first meal
Most full remodels take between ten and fourteen weeks from that first visit, with three or four of them spent on site.
Design visit
We measure, look at the existing services, and ask how you cook, who uses the room and what annoys you about the kitchen you have.
Drawings and price
3D drawings, a board of doors and worktops, and a fixed, itemised price. Changes are made at no charge until you sign off.
Order and schedule
Cabinets are made or ordered, which usually takes four to eight weeks, and you receive a written plan for every day of the fit.
Fit and hand over
Strip out, first fix, cabinets, worktops and finishing, then a walk round with every appliance shown working.
From households who cook in them now (example reviews)
We kept the layout and changed everything else. New doors, a quartz worktop and better lighting made the room feel brand new at a fraction of the cost of a remodel, and the work took five days.
Taking out the wall between the kitchen and dining room worried us. The engineer, the paperwork and the steel beam were all organised, and the project lead sent a short note on progress every evening.
The designer asked how tall we both are and set the worktop and the sink at heights that suit us. A small detail that makes a big difference every single night.
What households ask before a remodel
How long will we be without a kitchen?
A full remodel takes three to four weeks on site. Stone tops can only be measured for their templates after the base units go in, and they arrive roughly seven to ten days later, so we set up a temporary sink and a worktop with a microwave if you need one.
Do we need approval to change the layout?
Removing a wall, moving gas or adding a window can need approval or an engineer's design. Rules vary by country and city, so we find out what the local office asks for and prepare the drawings, and where the rules require it the application goes in under your name.
Can we keep our own appliances?
Yes, if they suit the new layout. We check sizes, ventilation and connections at the design visit, because integrated appliances need housings made for them.
Which worktop should we choose?
Laminate costs least and is easy to replace, wood is warm but needs oiling, quartz shrugs off stains, and granite and sintered stone cope well with heat. Offcuts of each come to the design visit, to lay next to each other in your own light.
Can you fit a kitchen designed elsewhere?
Yes. We check the plans against the real measurements and services of the room first, then quote for the fitting alone.
How is the work paid for?
In three stages: 25 percent when the design is signed so the cabinets can be ordered, 50 percent when they are delivered, and the rest at handover. Payments go straight to our office, by arrangement with the project lead.
Ask for a design visit
Tell us about the room, how you use it and when you would like to start. Someone from the design office rings you within a working day to agree a visit.
- Design visit and 3D drawings before any commitment
- Fixed, itemised price after the visit
- One project lead from start to finish
Call or visit the design office
Door samples, worktop offcuts and handles are kept at the design office, and Saturday visits are booked ahead so a designer has time to sit down with you.
Design office hours
| Monday to Friday | 08:30 to 17:30 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 15:00, by appointment |
| Sunday | Closed |
Where we fit
Kitchens fitted within a radius of roughly 60 km from the design office. For a project further away, ask, and we explain how site visits would work.