Renovating a kitchen in a Victorian home is not the same job as fitting one into a new-build. The rooms were never designed as modern kitchens. The proportions rarely match

A bespoke kitchen in Richmond costs more than a mid-range fitted kitchen, and a good deal more than a budget one. By how much depends on the room, the brief,

A kitchen design brief is not a list of things you want the kitchen to look like. It is an account of how your household lives, what the existing kitchen

A kitchen extension changes the brief. The room gets larger, often significantly, which opens up layout options that were not possible before. But it also introduces a set of decisions

Victorian and Edwardian kitchens present a specific set of challenges that standard units are rarely designed to handle. The rooms are often long and narrow, or arranged around a chimney

Most people are broadly familiar with the distinction between bespoke and fitted kitchens. What is less well understood is the category that sits between them. Semi-bespoke occupies a middle ground.

Six months is a reasonable answer for most projects. Some run to four. Others, where building work is involved or decisions take longer to reach, push to eight or nine.

The honest answer is that they are not really different versions of the same thing. A fitted kitchen is assembled from components that already exist. A bespoke kitchen is made

Choosing a kitchen designer is one of the more consequential decisions a project involves. The person you work with will have a significant influence on how the finished kitchen functions,

The first meeting is not where decisions get made. It is where the right questions get asked. What the consultation covers is the existing kitchen: what works, what does not,

For many households, the kitchen is the most intensively used space in the home. It needs to support cooking, eating, working, socialising and often all of these at once. Designing

Commissioning a bespoke kitchen is a significant decision. For most homeowners, it is not something done often, and the process can feel unfamiliar at the outset. Understanding how a bespoke