Worthing · West Sussex · London
Thirty-five years of carpentry, one bench, and a kitchen made specifically for your walls. MDF, tulipwood and solid oak — dovetailed, biscuit-jointed and hand-painted in your home.
Every carcass and door made by Ollie — no flat-pack, no imported boxes.
Insured to £1m while working in your home. Fully covered, start to finish.
Chosen per component for how it moves, machines and takes paint.
Finished after fitting, so no chipped edges and no visible joins.
The maker
Ollie Feeley started in carpentry at seventeen, building bespoke furniture. Four years later he moved onto site work across West Sussex and London, and spent the best part of two decades installing other people's kitchens.
He fitted hundreds of them. Flat-pack carcasses, veneered doors, drawer boxes stapled together in a factory. And every single time, the same thought: I could do better than this.
So Ollie's Handmade Kitchens exists for one reason — to build the kitchen properly, from raw board and timber, and to have the same pair of hands see it through from the first measurement to the last coat of paint. No showroom overheads. No subcontracted fitters. No kitchen leaving the bench that Ollie would not have in his own house.
Timber & board
There is no single best material for a kitchen — there is a right material for a door panel, a different one for the frame around it, and a third for the worktop it sits under. Choosing correctly is most of the job.
The best painted surface money can buy. No grain to telegraph through the topcoat, no seasonal movement, no shrinkage lines opening up along a shaker panel in February.
The cabinetmaker's secret for painted work. Fine, even texture, machines crisply, holds a moulding profile sharply and takes paint almost as flat as MDF — but with real timber strength through a rail.
Used where the timber is meant to be seen and touched. Oiled rather than painted, it earns a patina instead of wearing out — worktops, islands, open shelving and drawer interiors that get opened forty times a day.
Through dovetail · cut by hand, every drawer
Why it lasts
Almost every kitchen sold in Britain is a stack of machine-drilled boxes held together with cam locks and glue blocks. It works. For about eight years. Then the drawer boxes sag, the cam locks chew out their sockets and the doors start to drop.
This is not that. Here is what actually holds an Ollie's kitchen together.
Interlocking tails and pins mean a drawer cannot pull itself apart, no matter what you load into it. Glue is a belt; the joint is the braces.
Compressed beech biscuits swell into precisely routed slots, pulling each panel square and locking it there. Rigid, silent, invisible.
Tulipwood or oak frames take the knocks, carry the hinges and give a hand-painted finish something worth landing on.
Every cabinet interior is sealed with an oil-based sealer, so a leaking dishwasher is an inconvenience rather than a replacement kitchen.
Kitchen styles
Because nothing is ordered from a catalogue, style is simply a decision about doors, proportion and finish — not a limit on what is possible.
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Beaded in-frame doors, deep cornice, a butler sink and a range. The kitchen an old house was expecting.
View Traditional
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Five-piece doors, honest proportions, nothing applied for effect. The most requested kitchen in Britain, done properly.
View Shaker
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Flat slab fronts, handleless rails, sprayed finishes and integrated everything. Quiet, seamless, warm.
View Modern
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Doors set inside the carcass rather than over it. Three-millimetre shadow gaps, all the way round.
View In-frame
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Galley flats, Victorian returns and boot rooms. Where bespoke earns its money twice over.
View Small kitchens
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Freestanding, furniture-like, oak-topped. Often the only thing a room actually needs.
View IslandsRecent work
A cross-section of finished projects — in-frame and shaker, painted and oiled, coastal cottages and Victorian terraces. Every one designed around the room it lives in.
How it works
Every stage happens in the same order, every time, and you always know what is next and roughly when. Here are the first four — the rest are on the process page.
Ollie comes to you — kitchen, coffee, tape measure. You talk about how you actually cook, where the light falls, what drives you mad about the room now. No showroom, no sales script, no three-hour presentation.
Every wall measured, floors checked for level, services traced. Old houses are never square and pretending otherwise is how kitchens end up with 20mm scribe fillers everywhere.
You get a plan, elevations and a written quote itemised by cabinet — not a single number on a page. If something is out of budget, we say so and show you the alternative.
Doors, paint colours, worktops, handles, hinges, sinks, taps. Ollie brings samples to you and will happily talk you out of an expensive idea that will not work.
In their words
“The kitchen Ollie built for me and my wife could not be better. He walked us through the design and even helped us settle on the right handles for the drawers. We honestly could not be happier.”
Homeowner — Worthing, West Sussex
Where we work
The bench is in Worthing, which means West Sussex gets Ollie at short notice and London gets him properly — a van, a full week on site, and the same person fitting the kitchen who made it. No subcontracted fitters, ever.
West Sussex & the coast
Straight answers
Most complete kitchens land between roughly £12,000 and £35,000 for the cabinetry, painting and fitting, with worktops and appliances on top. A small galley in a flat sits at the lower end; a large in-frame kitchen with an island, a pantry and solid oak surfaces sits at the upper end.
Every quote is itemised cabinet by cabinet, so you can see exactly what a pantry or a bank of pan drawers is adding and take it out if you would rather not. Finance is available if you would prefer to spread it.
From accepting the quote, expect three to six weeks in the workshop while your kitchen is made, then one to two weeks on site fitting, then painting. Most projects run eight to ten weeks end to end.
You will have a date before anything is ordered, and Ollie fits one kitchen at a time — so nobody disappears halfway through to start someone else's.
No. The workshop is in Worthing and a large share of the work is across West Sussex — Brighton and Hove, Chichester, Arundel, Horsham, Littlehampton, Shoreham. Ollie also works regularly in London, where he spent years fitting on site before starting the business. See the full list of areas.
Sometimes, and Ollie will tell you honestly if that is the better call. Replacing doors and drawer fronts on sound carcasses is a legitimate way to transform a kitchen for a fraction of the cost. If the carcasses are chipboard and already swelling at the base, it is money badly spent, and he will say so.
Two years on every kitchen. If something fails, Ollie comes back and fixes it at no charge. He also carries £1m public liability cover for the whole time he is working in your home.
Next step
Book a free, no-obligation design visit. Ollie measures up, talks through what you want and follows up with a drawing and a fixed written quote — usually within a week.
