Beautifully bespoke. Distinctly yours.
A bespoke kitchen should be exactly that - designed for your home, your taste and the way you want to live.
At Original Handmade Kitchens, we create bespoke kitchens for homes across Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, with every project individually designed and our British-made furniture hand-built in Yorkshire.
There is no fixed collection of standard cabinets to make your room fit around. From the proportions and layout to the storage, hardwood furniture and final painted finish, your kitchen can be tailored to suit your space.
Whether you are planning a completely new kitchen, a kitchen remodel or a wider kitchen refurbishment, you receive personal guidance from an independent kitchen company with 25 years of industry experience.
A Kitchen Made for Your Home
No two homes are quite the same, so why should their kitchens be?
A genuinely bespoke kitchen gives you the freedom to create furniture around the room rather than compromising the room around standard components. That could mean making better use of an awkward corner, planning storage around your routine or choosing a completely custom colour to complement the character of your property.
We begin with a free design visit in your own home. It gives us the opportunity to understand the architecture, dimensions and natural light of the room while talking through your kitchen ideas and how you use the space every day.
The result is a tailored kitchen design developed around real life - from unpacking the morning groceries to cooking, entertaining and gathering around the kitchen with family.
For homeowners looking for bespoke kitchens in Hertfordshire or Buckinghamshire, it is a more personal approach than selecting a standard kitchen in a showroom.
Traditional, Shaker and Country Kitchens
Traditional kitchens endure because they combine practical furniture with proportions and details that feel at home in British properties.
If you favour the clean lines and balanced proportions associated with Shaker kitchens, the warmer character of country kitchens or a more detailed traditional kitchen, a bespoke approach gives you greater freedom over the finished design.
Rather than restricting you to a predetermined range, your kitchen can respond to your property and personal taste. Cabinetry, storage, colour and detailing can all be considered together, allowing traditional influences to be interpreted in a way that suits your home.
That same approach works whether you are creating a new kitchen for a period property or introducing traditional craftsmanship into a more contemporary interior.
Painted Kitchens in Any Colour You Choose
Colour can completely change the character of a kitchen.
Our painted kitchens are not limited to a small manufacturer's colour chart. Your furniture can be painted in any bespoke colour you choose, giving you the freedom to create a finish that works with the light, architecture and other materials in your room.
Solid tulipwood is used for the frames, doors and drawer fronts, with doors and fronts made to a substantial 28 mm thickness. Tulipwood provides the smooth surface needed for a beautiful painted finish while giving the furniture the solid construction expected from a handmade kitchen.
Whether you already know the exact kitchen colours you want or need help narrowing down your ideas, colour can be considered as part of the complete design rather than as an afterthought.
Hardwood Kitchens, Hand-Built in Yorkshire
The beauty of bespoke kitchens is not only in what you can see.
Our British-made kitchens are hand-built and quality checked at a workshop in Yorkshire before travelling to their final home. Traditional craftsmanship is combined with substantial materials and carefully considered details throughout the furniture.
Solid hardwood forms an important part of that construction. Alongside solid tulipwood frames and fronts, solid oak drawer boxes feature traditional dovetailed joints. Robust Egger carcasses, stainless-steel sink liners, invisible magnetic door closers with damping buffers and soft-closing drawer runners complete the specification.
These details are not there simply to make the kitchen sound impressive. They are part of creating furniture that feels substantial and performs properly in a room that may be used from first thing in the morning until late at night.
For homeowners comparing kitchen manufacturers and suppliers, looking beyond the doors at how the furniture is actually constructed can tell you much more about the kitchen you are buying.
Luxury Kitchens Are About More Than Appearance
A luxury kitchen should not depend on a label.
For us, it is found in the combination of individual design, substantial materials, traditional construction and the freedom to make considered choices throughout the project.
It is the ability to tailor cabinetry to the room rather than accept the nearest standard size. To choose a bespoke painted finish rather than settle for a restricted range. To open a solid oak dovetailed drawer and feel the substance behind it.
Most importantly, it is about creating a kitchen specifically for the people who will use it.
That is why our bespoke kitchen service begins in your home. It allows the design to respond to the property from the outset and gives you time to discuss what matters to you without the pressure of a retail showroom.
New Kitchen or Complete Kitchen Remodel?
Sometimes the cabinetry is only one part of the change you want to make.
A new kitchen may fit comfortably within the existing room. A larger kitchen remodel or kitchen refurbishment might involve changing the space itself, moving services or completing other work before the new furniture can be installed.
Original Handmade Kitchens can manage the wider project as well as the kitchen.
Our in-house team can undertake structural alterations, plastering, kitchen plumbing, heating, electrics, tiling, flooring, lighting, painting and decorating. Your kitchen fitters and associated trades can therefore be coordinated as part of one managed service rather than leaving you to organise multiple companies yourself.
You have a dedicated project manager and one point of contact throughout.
It means the design, British-made furniture, fitting and finishing work can all be considered together - from the first layout to the final coat of paint.
An Independent Bespoke Kitchen Company
Original Handmade Kitchens is a small, independent business - not a franchise or chain.
That allows us to provide the kind of personal service a bespoke project deserves. With 25 years of industry experience behind the design process, you can discuss the practical details of your kitchen directly with people who understand how those decisions affect the finished room.
We are not simply a kitchen supplier providing furniture for somebody else to work out. From bespoke design and manufacture through to fitting and wider refurbishment work, we can help bring the different parts of your project together.
That personal involvement continues throughout the process.
Start With a Free Home Design Visit
If you are considering a bespoke kitchen, new kitchen, kitchen remodel or kitchen refurbishment, the best place to begin is in the room you want to change.
We will come to your home, look at the space and talk through your ideas, priorities and practical requirements. From there, we can begin shaping a kitchen around your property and the way you want to live.
No high-pressure showroom. No need to choose from a standard collection.
Just a considered conversation about creating the right kitchen for your home.