From layout to lighting. We handle it all.
A new kitchen involves far more than choosing cabinets, worktops and colours.
At Original Handmade Kitchens, we provide a complete kitchen service for homeowners across Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, bringing bespoke kitchen design, British-made furniture, kitchen fitting and the wider renovation work together under one roof.
Our in-house team can take care of structural alterations, plastering, kitchen plumbing, heating, electrics, lighting, tiling, flooring, painting and decorating. With a dedicated project manager and one point of contact throughout, you do not have to coordinate multiple companies and trades yourself.
Whether you need experienced kitchen fitters for a new installation or are planning a complete kitchen refurbishment, we can manage the project from your first ideas through to the final finish.
One Team for Your Kitchen Renovation
Kitchen renovations can involve a surprising number of moving parts.
Before the kitchen installers can begin, walls may need altering, services moving, electrics changing or plasterwork completing. Once the furniture is fitted, there may still be flooring, tiling, lighting and decorating to finish.
Organising separate builders, kitchen fitters, plumbers, electricians, tilers and decorators can leave the homeowner managing the project themselves.
We take a different approach.
Our kitchen refurbishment service brings the work together, with one dedicated project manager overseeing the different stages. You have a single point of contact and a team working towards the same finished kitchen.
For homeowners planning kitchen renovations in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, it means a more joined-up approach from beginning to end.
Bespoke Kitchen Design Starts at Home
Every project begins with understanding what you want from the room.
We offer free home design visits, allowing us to discuss your kitchen ideas in the space itself. Rather than trying to understand your property from a showroom desk, we can see its proportions, architecture and natural light, take accurate measurements and learn how you use the room every day.
Your bespoke kitchen design can then be tailored around your home and your priorities.
That might mean finding a better layout, creating more useful storage, making space for family life or considering how kitchen lighting, colours and finishes will work together. Because the wider installation can also be managed by our team, practical requirements such as plumbing and electrics can be considered alongside the design.
No high-pressure showroom. Just a considered conversation about your home and the kitchen you want to create.
Structural Work and Preparation
Sometimes creating the right kitchen means changing more than the furniture.
Where required, our team can undertake structural alterations as part of the project, including moving or removing walls. Plastering and other preparation work can then be coordinated before your new kitchen is installed.
Bringing this work into the same managed service helps the different stages of the kitchen renovation work together rather than leaving you to arrange separate companies before the kitchen fitters arrive.
From opening up the room to preparing it for your new cabinetry, the work can be planned around the kitchen from the outset.
Kitchen Plumbing, Heating and Electrics
The position of sinks, appliances, lighting and other services can have a significant effect on how a kitchen works.
Our service includes kitchen plumbing, heating and electrical work where required, allowing these practical elements to be coordinated with the new design.
Rather than designing the kitchen first and discovering later that services need changing, the requirements of the room can be considered as part of the overall project.
That gives greater freedom when developing a custom layout and helps ensure the practical work is ready for the kitchen installation.
Kitchen Installation and Fitting
Once the room is prepared, our kitchen installers can bring the design together.
Your British-made kitchen furniture is hand-built and quality checked at a workshop in Yorkshire before heading to its final home. The installation then forms part of the same wider project rather than being treated as an isolated fitting job.
This is particularly useful when your kitchen refurbishment includes several stages of work. Your project manager can coordinate the kitchen fitters with the other trades involved, helping the project progress logically from preparation and services through to installation and finishing.
For homeowners looking for kitchen fitters in Hertfordshire or Buckinghamshire, it means you are not simply finding someone to install cabinets. You have a team that understands the complete project around them.
Flooring, Tiling, Lighting and Decorating
A kitchen is not finished when the last cabinet is fitted.
The flooring beneath your feet, lighting above your work surfaces, tiling around the room and final decoration all contribute to how the finished kitchen looks and feels.
Our in-house service can include kitchen flooring, tiling, lighting, painting and decorating, allowing these finishing details to be coordinated with the cabinetry and overall design.
From the first structural work to the final stroke of paint, the aim is to deliver the room as one complete project.
British-Made Furniture, Individually Tailored
The kitchen itself is just as considered as the service around it.
Our British-made kitchens are hand-built in Yorkshire using traditional craftsmanship and substantial materials. Solid tulipwood frames are paired with 28 mm doors and drawer fronts, while solid drawer boxes use traditional dovetailed joints.
Each kitchen is bespoke rather than selected from a fixed collection of standard units. The furniture, storage and painted finish can therefore be tailored to your home and the way you want to use it.
Whether you are creating a completely new kitchen or undertaking a wider renovation, the design and installation are considered together.
Independent Kitchen Fitters With a Personal Approach
Original Handmade Kitchens is a small, independent kitchen company - not a franchise or chain.
With 25 years of industry experience behind the design process, we combine personal service with the practical knowledge needed to manage the different parts of a kitchen project.
Rather than dealing separately with a kitchen supplier, manufacturer, fitter and several other trades, you have one team helping to coordinate the work.
That personal involvement continues throughout your project, from discussing your initial kitchen ideas and developing a tailored design to fitting the furniture and completing the surrounding room.
Discuss Your Kitchen Project
If you are considering a new kitchen or kitchen refurbishment in Hertfordshire or Buckinghamshire, start with a free home design visit.
We can look at your existing room, listen to your kitchen ideas and discuss the design, fitting and renovation work your project may require.
From bespoke kitchen design and British-made furniture to kitchen plumbing, installation and the final decorating, we can help bring the complete project together.