Marlstone
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What we do

Kitchen design

The plan first. Where you stand, what you reach for, and how many people are in there at once.

We start with how the room is used rather than with a style. How many cook at the same time, whether the bins are the thing that always gets in the way, which cupboard you open thirty times a day. That conversation produces the layout, and the layout is what you live with long after you have stopped noticing the door fronts.

01

The kitchen you have now

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.

02

Two layouts, not twelve

We draw two genuinely different plans rather than twelve variations of one. Choosing between two is a decision; choosing between twelve is a fog.

03

The quote

Itemised by cabinet, worktop, appliance and labour, so you can see what a change actually costs rather than being told the total moved.

04

Fit

Ten to fourteen days for a typical kitchen. Same two fitters throughout, first fix sequenced inside our programme.

05

Template and finish

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.

Asked often

How long is the kitchen out of action?
Ten to fourteen days for a typical fit, with a gap of about a week in the middle while the worktops are made from the site template. We leave you a working sink and a plug for the kettle for as much of that as is physically possible, because the alternative is a fortnight of takeaways and a strained household.
Why template the worktops on site?
Because walls are not straight. A wall 8mm out of true over three metres is entirely normal, and a worktop cut from a drawing will show that gap along its whole length. Templating after the cabinets are installed adds about a week and removes the most common complaint in the trade.
Do I have to buy the appliances from you?
No, and you will usually pay less if you do not. We will tell you the sizes and the extraction requirement and you can buy wherever you like. What we do insist on is that they are on site before the fit starts.
Is a kitchen island always a good idea?
No. An island needs at least 1.2 metres of gangway on the sides being used, and a lot of rooms cannot give that without making the working triangle worse than the galley it replaced. We will draw it if the room allows it and say so plainly if it does not.

Cabinetry

Made to the room rather than to a catalogue module, where the room needs it.

Worktops

Templated on site once the cabinets are in and levelled, never cut from a drawing, because no wall in an English house is actually straight.

Installation

Our own fitters, with the plumbing and electrics sequenced around them.
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