Design & survey
A free visit, a full measured survey of the room as it actually is, then scaled plans and elevations you can build from.
Bespoke kitchens
Handmade kitchens, cut and assembled by one pair of hands
Not a range. Not a configurator. A kitchen drawn for your room, machined on a bench in Worthing and painted in your house after it is fitted.
Bespoke kitchens
What “handmade” actually means here
The word gets used loosely. Plenty of companies describe kitchens as handmade when what they mean is that a person opened the boxes.
Here it means the raw material arrives as sheet board and lengths of timber. Carcasses are cut, edged and biscuit-jointed. Face frames are machined from solid tulipwood or oak and morticed together. Door frames are cut, profiled and assembled around a panel. Drawer boxes are dovetailed. Everything is sanded through the grits by hand, fitted to your walls, and then painted in place.
Ollie has been doing this since he was seventeen — first as a bespoke furniture maker, then through two decades of site carpentry across West Sussex and London during which he fitted hundreds of other people's kitchens and steadily concluded he could do it better. This is the result.
The practical consequence for you is that nothing about your room is a problem. A chimney breast in the wrong place, a ceiling that drops 40mm across five metres, a Victorian return two metres wide, a sloping floor under a bay — these are the situations where catalogue cabinet widths force filler panels and awkward compromises. A kitchen made to your measurements simply absorbs them.
Detail
Everything included in a full kitchen
Cabinetry
Every base, wall and tall unit made to your dimensions, with adjustable feet, solid backs and sealed interiors.
Dovetailed drawers
Oak or tulipwood boxes with hand-cut through dovetails, on soft-close full-extension runners rated for real loads.
Bespoke storage
Larders, pantries, pan drawers, plate racks, spice pull-outs, bin systems and appliance housings, sized to your things.
Fitting
Installed by the person who made it. Scribed to your walls, doors set to even gaps, services coordinated.
Hand painting
Brushed and laid off in place after fitting, in any colour you like, with interiors sealed against leaks.
Worth knowing
Where a bespoke kitchen earns its money
Three situations where made-to-measure is not a luxury but the only sensible answer.
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Rooms that are not rectangles
Bays, returns, chimney breasts, boxed soil pipes and sloping ceilings. Standard carcasses come in fixed widths, so every awkward inch becomes a filler panel. Bespoke units are simply made the width of the gap.
- 02
Houses that have moved
A Victorian terrace has almost no square corners and its floors rarely fall less than 20mm across a room. Kitchens made off-site to nominal dimensions need packing and scribing everywhere. Kitchens measured on site do not.
- 03
Storage that matches your life
A drawer built for your pans, a larder built for your jars, a recess built for the mixer you actually own. It sounds like a small thing until you have lived with a kitchen designed around somebody else's assumptions.
Straight answers
Questions about handmade kitchens
Most complete kitchens fall between roughly £12,000 and £35,000 for cabinetry, painting and fitting, with worktops and appliances on top. Layout complexity, the number of tall units and whether you want solid oak surfaces move the number more than square footage does.
Every quote is itemised cabinet by cabinet, so you can see exactly what each element adds.
Ollie can source them, but most clients buy their own — appliance pricing moves constantly and you will usually beat a trade markup online. What matters is telling him the exact models early, because housing dimensions, ventilation and door clearances are designed around them.
Any colour. Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, Mylands, Dulux Heritage, or a bespoke match taken from a tile, a fabric or a tin you already have.
All cabinetry, doors, drawer boxes, frames, cornice and solid timber worktops are made in the Worthing workshop. Hardware, sinks, taps, stone worktops and appliances are sourced from specialist suppliers — there is no sensible way to make a soft-close runner on a bench.
Next step
Let's talk about your kitchen
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.