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Richmond upon Thames · London
Bespoke Kitchens in Barnes
In Barnes, we design bespoke kitchens around the room you actually have. Your kitchen is designed at a visit to your home and built in our workshop.
- A pantry cupboard with shelves and drawers
- A kitchen that fits an uneven room
- A painted kitchen in a colour you choose
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Bespoke kitchens for homes in Barnes
We make kitchens to fit the room, not a catalogue of set sizes. Every unit is sized from careful measurements taken at the measuring visit, so the runs fit neatly from wall to wall. You decide the layout, the storage and the colour with us, and the kitchen is built in our workshop before it is fitted. We make kitchens from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and the things people most often want solved are a kitchen finished in your colours and a layout for a small or awkward room.
An older kitchen often has a sash window and a back door, which fix where things can go. Around Barnes, where a large share of homes date from before 1919, the layout is drawn around those fixed points. The sink position is agreed with your plumber. The worktop, sink and appliances are your choice.
After the design visit, we send you a quote in writing. It describes the design we discussed, the materials and the finish, so it is clear what’s included.
- Place
- Barnes (SW13, SW15, SW14)
- Area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
Off-the-shelf furniture can be a sensible choice. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job, and it is quick to buy.
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. It gets harder with sloping ceilings, out-of-level floors and lath-and-plaster walls, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
What affects the cost of bespoke kitchens
Several things affect the price:
- Tricky walls, sloping ceilings and uneven floors
- The overall size of the piece
- Parking near your home
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose. Bigger pieces use more board and take longer to make and fit, so size comes first. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
Helping us understand the room
The more you can tell us at the start, the better the design visit goes. It’s useful to include:
- Rough measurements: width, height and depth
- Any ideas or images you’ve saved
- Photos of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it, when we’ve measured up and talked through the design. For a quote, fill in our short enquiry form.
Questions from Barnes
Can you fit bespoke kitchens to the uneven walls of an older house in Barnes?
Yes. Walls in older houses are rarely flat or square, and floors are often out of level, so each piece is scribed to follow the wall and set level on a plinth or adjustable feet. Skirting, picture rails and cornices are met neatly or cut around. Older walls can be solid brick or lath and plaster, and the fixings are chosen to suit.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Barnes?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. Depending on the street, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension through the council may be needed, and suspensions often need notice. Let us know what parking is near you during the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
What finishes do you offer?
There are two choices: a spray finish from the workshop, which is smooth and even, or hand painting, which can be done in your home. The finish is agreed in your quote.
Do you do the plumbing and electrics?
No, that work is for other trades. Your plumber connects the sink and dishwasher, an engineer on the Gas Safe Register handles any gas, and your electrician does the wiring, and we fit the cabinets.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation areas mostly control changes to the outside, and furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need it. Listed buildings are different: check with the council’s conservation officer first.
Does my lease affect fitted furniture?
Possibly. A lease can require consent for alterations. We cannot advise on leases, so please check yours.
What happens on fitting day
On the morning of the fitting, the first job is covering the floors and protecting the way in from the front door. The sections made in our workshop come in next, a piece at a time. 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. Where a period house has been split into flats, the way in often goes through shared parts, so neighbours may appreciate a note before fitting day. Each section is sized for the tightest door or turn. Saturday fitting is possible by arrangement.
- You get in touch and describe the kitchen you want.
- At the design visit we plan the kitchen and talk about colours and finish.
- A written quote follows, with the finish agreed.
- The cabinets are built in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, and a spray finish is applied there for a smooth, even surface.
- The kitchen is fitted and scribed to the walls, with any hand painting done in the room.
- Treat new paint gently while it cures; the plumbing, gas and electrics are done by your own plumber, an engineer on the Gas Safe Register and your electrician.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Arrange any electrical changes with your electrician ahead of time
- Leave a clear route from the front door to the room
Starting with a design visit
To get a quote, tell us about the room on our contact form and tell us which room you have in mind and what you want the furniture to do. We then arrange a design visit to measure and discuss the design, and a written quote follows.
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Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
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, finished to suit the room. Chimney breasts in older houses stand out by different amounts, so the recesses either side are rarely the same, which means a matching pair of ready-made units seldom fits both. Each side can be made to its own size.
Awkward rooms take more time: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. That’s reflected in the quote, which we write after seeing the room.
Why us?
- Saturday work by prior arrangement
- Made in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Designed for the room you have
- A spray or hand-painted finish
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or how to compare quotes.
Do you need bespoke kitchens in Barnes?
A painted kitchen can be refreshed later, which suits a long-term home. Hand-painted finishes are easy to touch up over the years.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- Tall larder storage
- A painted kitchen in a colour you choose
- More storage in a small kitchen
- Making the most of a galley kitchen
For an older house near Barnes Methodist Church, a narrow back addition or an old chimney breast may shape the kitchen layout.
What to check before you book
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
- Who does any electrics, plumbing or gas work
- Is it spray painted or hand painted?
Nearby places to Barnes
What else we make in Barnes
Bespoke kitchens for homes in Barnes
Homes built before 1919 make up about 52% of the housing in the streets around Barnes, with about 17% built between 1919 and 1939, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Each era brings its own kind of wall, ceiling height and floor, so it shapes the design from the first measurement. The National Heritage List has 27 entries within half a mile of the centre of Barnes. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. Controlled parking zones are run by the boroughs, so the rules in Richmond upon Thames are set locally. If your road in Barnes falls in a zone, the van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. It’s useful to let us know about parking at the design visit.
If you live near Barn Elms, a tall cupboard for outdoor things can be part of the kitchen design. Chiswick House, about 0.9 miles north-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, a narrow back addition or an old chimney breast may shape the kitchen layout.
Barnes is about 4 miles south-west of Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. We design and make bespoke kitchens for homes in Barnes, as part of our work in every London borough. Across Richmond upon Thames, we cover Barnes and the places around it.
Here we cover the SW13, SW15 and SW14 postcode area for bespoke kitchens. Whether you live on a street like Church Road, Station Road and Barnes High Street or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for bespoke kitchens. Main roads around Barnes include the A306 and B349. If your home is on one of them, tell us at the design visit, as some main roads have strict stopping rules. Nearby, we also make bespoke kitchens in Old Chiswick (1 mile north), Turnham Green (1 mile north-west), Mortlake (1 mile south-west), East Sheen (1 mile south-west) and Putney (1 mile south-east). Other parts of Richmond upon Thames we cover include Twickenham (4 miles south-west), Richmond (3 miles south-west), Richmond upon Thames (2 miles west), Teddington (5 miles south-west), Hampton (7 miles south-west) and Kew (2 miles north-west).
What’s near Barnes
Our area takes in the homes around Polish Library POSK in London, The Harrodian School and Chiswick School, among other places. There’s a railway station in Barnes itself: Barnes Bridge station. Nearby you will also find Putney Exchange (1.4 miles south-east) and Antique Breadboard Museum (1.2 miles south-east). Open spaces near Barnes include Duke's Hollow.