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Anerley Bespoke Kitchens
Bespoke and fitted kitchens with cabinets made to the room, designed for your room in Anerley. After a design visit and a quote in writing, it is built in our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Making the most of a galley kitchen
- A pantry cupboard with shelves and drawers
- An island where space allows
Need bespoke kitchens in Anerley?
About our bespoke kitchens in Anerley
A larder cupboard can hold more than a run of wall units. A larder can have shelves, deep drawers and racks, sized to what you keep in them. Built into an alcove or the end of a wall, it puts awkward space to work. We make kitchens from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand, and the usual reasons to get in touch are a painted dresser for the kitchen and a kitchen for a room that isn’t square.
Around Anerley, a large share of homes date from before 1919, and in a Victorian or Edwardian terrace, the kitchen is often in the narrow rear part of the house, or in a side return that has since been extended. Walls and floors in older houses are rarely true, so cabinets are scribed and levelled on site. You choose the worktop, sink and appliances, and the cabinets are made around them.
The quote comes in writing, so you can read it at your own pace and share it with anyone else involved. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Location
- Anerley (SE20, SE19, SE26)
- Area
- Bromley
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Fitting day, step by step
Once the main sections are fixed in place, we hang any doors and fit any drawers or lids. Each one is adjusted until the gaps are even and it closes cleanly. How long fitting takes depends on the kitchen’s size and how many other trades are involved, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Original hallway tiles and old floorboards are worth protecting, so they’re covered before anything comes in. Fixings into older walls are made carefully, as lath and plaster can crack if treated roughly. Any decorating around the new pieces is for your decorator.
- It starts with a short note from you about the room.
- We visit to plan the layout and check how the cabinets will get into the room. Let us know about parking too, as a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension.
- We send a written quote.
- The cabinets are made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, sized to come in through your doors.
- The cabinets are fitted in your home with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish; plumbing, gas and electrics are for your plumber, an engineer on the Gas Safe Register and your electrician.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
- Empty the space we will be working in
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
Ask for a quote
To get a quote for bespoke kitchens in Anerley, use our contact form. Tell us which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, with sizes if you have them. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.
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Is bespoke worth it?
Many off-the-shelf kitchens use chipboard carcasses with a printed or wrapped finish. Ours are made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, then spray or hand painted, so the finish can be repainted later. Alcoves and recesses in period houses are rarely a standard width or depth, so ready-made units rarely fill them properly. Made for the space, the furniture uses the full width and height.
In London, parking can affect the price. Much of London is covered by controlled parking zones, so a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension. It helps to talk about parking during the design visit, so we can plan for it.
Why us?
- A design visit, then a written quote
- Every London borough and the City of London covered
- More than 300 projects completed
- Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
Take a look at how bespoke compares with ready-made or what to look for in a quote.
Bespoke kitchens for homes in Anerley
About 47% of the homes in the area around Anerley went up before 1919, and about 20% between 1973 and 1999, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. That matters for kitchens, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Anerley include Swedenborgian Church (Grade II), less than half a mile north-west, and Crystal Palace Lower Level Station (Grade II), less than half a mile north-west. If you live in a listed building, fixing into or taking out original features like panelling can need listed building consent. An early word with the council’s conservation officer is the best first step. Purpose-built flats are home to about 41% of households in the area around Anerley, based on Census 2021. For a flat, kitchens are made in sections sized for the stairs, the lift and the doors. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.
If your home is one of the older houses near St Paul's, tall ceilings can take larder cupboards right up to the top. Living in a block of flats near Anerley station? Then the route in is measured along with the room itself, and the sections are sized to fit it.
Anerley is about 8 miles east of Orpington, within the London Borough of Bromley. We can visit homes in Anerley on weekdays, or on a Saturday by arrangement. We cover places right across Bromley, large and small.
Design visits and fitting in SE20, SE19 and SE26 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Our area takes in homes on streets like Maple Road, Padua Road and Genoa Road, for bespoke kitchens and any of our other fitted furniture. We also cover the places around Anerley: Penge (1 mile east), Crystal Palace (1 mile north), Sydenham (1 mile north-east), Gipsy Hill (1 mile north-west) and Upper Norwood (1 mile west). Across the rest of Bromley, our area takes in Orpington (8 miles east), Bromley (4 miles east), Beckenham (2 miles east), St Mary Cray (8 miles east), Chislehurst (6 miles east) and Biggin Hill (8 miles south-east).
Local landmarks in Anerley
We fit furniture in homes around Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Anerley Arms and Crystal Palace School and the streets around them. There is a railway station in Anerley itself: Anerley station. Nearby you will also find Crystal Palace Museum (0.5 miles north-west) and St Christopher's Hospice (0.7 miles north-east). Not far away are Dulwich Upper Wood.
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
The real difference is in the fit: edges scribed to the wall, a level base on a sloping floor and a neat line where the furniture meets the ceiling. Off-the-shelf furniture can’t normally do that in an older room.
Where bespoke earns its keep is in rooms that are not square. In period homes, walls lean, floors slope and the alcoves on each side are often different widths.
What we do not do
As carpenters, we leave some work to other trades. It helps to know these before you plan the job:
- Wiring for appliances and lights
- Making good walls and ceilings
- Connecting a gas hob or cooker
Not sure whether your space suits bespoke kitchens? You can drop us a line using the contact form and we will tell you before you arrange a visit. Our process from visit to fitting.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Hand-painted finish
- Larders and dressers
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Birch plywood
- Islands where space allows
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Why people ask for bespoke kitchens in Anerley
Flats with awkward kitchen walls are another reason. We can design for a galley, an alcove or a corner, so every run is used.
People usually get in touch with us about needs like these:
- A kitchen island with room around it
- Cabinets built around the appliances you choose
- A larder for food and small appliances
- A kitchen finished in your colours
The wider area includes historic houses such as Kingswood House, about 1.3 miles north-west. If your own home is a period one, a narrow back addition or an old chimney breast may shape the kitchen layout.
What to check before you book
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
Questions from Anerley
Is Anerley in the area you cover for bespoke kitchens?
Yes, we work across Bromley, Anerley included, and across the rest of London. To get started, you can tell us about the room on our contact form with a few details.
Can you fit bespoke kitchens to the uneven walls of an older house in Anerley?
Yes, that is normal in older houses: each piece is scribed to the wall and levelled at the base. Skirting, picture rails and cornices are met neatly or cut around. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
How long does fitting take?
It depends on the kitchen. The time the fitting takes depends on the kitchen’s size and how many other trades are involved, and your quote sets out the fitting days.
Can I send photos ahead of the visit?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit, along with rough measurements. Show anything the furniture has to work around, such as radiators or sockets.
What finishes do you offer?
You can choose between two finishes: by spray or by hand. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish, and hand painting is easy to touch up.
Do I need to be in when you fit?
Someone needs to let us in. It also helps to have someone around at the end, so we can go over the finished furniture together.