We ask to come while somebody is cooking. Twenty minutes of watching where you stand tells us more than an hour of asking what you want, and it is the part clients mention afterwards.
The total walk between sink, hob and fridge. Under that with two people in the room and you are queueing.
Clear, on every side being used. It is the number that decides whether your room can have one, and most rooms cannot.
The standard height suits a 5ft 8in cook. If the person who cooks most is not, it costs nothing to change now and cannot be changed later.
The plan, before the doors
A real room: 3.4 by 4.2 metres, door bottom left, window on the top wall. Switch the layout and watch the working triangle move. The total is the distance you walk between sink, hob and fridge, and it is the number that decides whether a kitchen feels right.
These are design conventions, not laws. A good kitchen breaks one of them on purpose and knows which one.
What we do
The plan first. Where you stand, what you reach for, and how many people are in there at once.
02Made to the room rather than to a catalogue module, where the room needs it.
03Templated on site once the cabinets are in and levelled, never cut from a drawing, because no wall in an English house is actually straight.
04Our own fitters, with the plumbing and electrics sequenced around them.
How it goes
An hour in your existing kitchen, while you cook if possible. We are watching where you stand and what annoys you, which you will have stopped noticing.
We draw two genuinely different plans rather than twelve variations of one. Choosing between two is a decision; choosing between twelve is a fog.
Itemised by cabinet, worktop, appliance and labour, so you can see what a change actually costs rather than being told the total moved.
Ten to fourteen days for a typical kitchen. Same two fitters throughout, first fix sequenced inside our programme.
Worktops templated once the units are in and levelled, fitted a week later, then the snag list walked with you rather than posted to you.
What people say
They watched me cook for twenty minutes and then told me the island I wanted would make it worse. They were right, and the L-shape they drew instead is the best room in the house.
Two fitters, the same two, for the whole fortnight. After the last kitchen we had, where a different face turned up every day, that alone was worth the money.
The worktop meets the wall without a gap anywhere along four metres. I did not know that was possible.
Where we work
Twenty minutes watching you cook and an hour with the room tells us what the kitchen wants to be. If an island is wrong for your room, you will hear it that day.
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