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Westminster · London
Chinatown Bespoke Kitchens
Bespoke and fitted kitchens with cabinets made to the room, for homes in Chinatown. We measure, design and quote first, then make it in our workshop and fit it.
- A pantry cupboard with shelves and drawers
- A kitchen planned around your appliances
- A painted dresser for the kitchen
Ask about bespoke kitchens in Chinatown
Questions from Chinatown
My house in Chinatown is Victorian. Can you deal with uneven walls?
Yes, that’s 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. Older walls can be solid brick or lath and plaster, and the fixings are chosen to suit.
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Tottenham Court Road station?
Yes. We cover all of Westminster and the rest of London. To get started, you can get in touch through our contact form with a few details about the room, and let us know about parking and access at the same time.
Can I send pictures before the visit?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit, along with rough measurements. It helps to show radiators, sockets and anything else on the wall.
How do you get large furniture into a flat?
The furniture is built in sections. At the design visit, we measure the route along with the room itself.
Do I choose the paint colour?
You choose it. We agree the colour with you before anything is painted.
What are your kitchens made from?
We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray painting or hand painting. Your quote sets out the materials and finish.
Bespoke kitchens for homes in Chinatown
We make the cabinets; the worktop, sink and appliances are the ones you choose. We plan each space around the appliances you’ve chosen, so everything fits as it should. Your quote sets out the materials and finish. Most enquiries start with a central island in a larger kitchen and making the most of a galley kitchen, and the answer is made in our workshop from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
Ceilings in homes built before 1919 are often tall, and a large share of the homes around Chinatown date from then. That suits tall larder cupboards and wall cabinets taken up to the ceiling. Cabinets are made from moisture-resistant MDF or birch plywood, with the finish agreed in your quote.
A written quote follows the design visit. It sets out the design we’ve talked through, the materials and the finish, so it’s clear what’s included.
- Place
- Chinatown (W1F, W1D, W1T)
- Area
- Westminster
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it’s made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, blocks and rented homes
In conversions and newer blocks, many internal walls are timber or metal stud with plasterboard. Fixings are chosen to suit whatever the wall is made of, after checking the walls during the design visit.
If your building is on a red route or a busy main road, unloading takes some planning. Red routes are run by TfL and have strict stopping rules, so it’s worth raising during the design visit.
Flat-pack or bespoke?
It is worth being honest about cost: off-the-shelf furniture normally costs less up front. Bespoke earns its place where the room is tricky, space is tight or you want the furniture to look part of the house.
Off-the-shelf furniture can be a sensible choice. In a room with square walls and standard sizes, it can work well.
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Bespoke kitchens for homes in Chinatown
In the streets around Chinatown, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 50%) and the years since 2000 (about 23%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. That matters for kitchens, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. Chinatown is partly covered by the Leicester Square Conservation Area, according to Historic England’s records. Conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If you want to be certain, ask the council’s planning team. About 50% of homes in the neighbourhood around Chinatown were built before 1919, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Kitchens in houses of that age often sit in a narrow back addition, with walls and floors that aren’t true, so each cabinet is levelled and scribed on site.
If your children go to Soho Parish CofE Primary School or a school nearby, a tall cupboard by the door can take school bags and coats as part of the kitchen. If you live in a period home close to St Anne's Church, a narrow back addition or an old chimney breast may shape the kitchen layout. If you live in a flat close to Tottenham Court Road station, it helps to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day.
Chinatown is within the City of Westminster, about 1 mile west of City of Westminster. Design visits and fitting in Chinatown can be on a Saturday, by arrangement. We list Chinatown among 29 places we cover in Westminster.
We cover every part of W1F, W1D and W1T. Streets in the area include Duck Lane, Drury Lane and Bruton Lane, and homes on each of them are within our area for bespoke kitchens. The A4 and A301 runs close to Chinatown, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you contact us. We also cover the places around Chinatown: Soho (1 mile north), St James's (1 mile south), West End (1 mile north-east), Seven Dials (1 mile north-east) and St Giles (1 mile north-east). Across the rest of Westminster, our area takes in Paddington Green (2 miles west), Paddington (2 miles west), Lisson Grove (2 miles north-west), Westbourne (3 miles west), Little Venice (2 miles west) and Westbourne Green (3 miles west). Chinatown is one of the larger places we cover in Westminster.
Around Chinatown
We fit furniture in homes around LITE Regal International School, Harris Westminster Sixth Form and Waxy O'Connor's pub. There’s a railway station in Chinatown itself: Tottenham Court Road station. Other landmarks nearby include Leverian collection (within half a mile south-east) and Kingly Court (within half a mile west). Not far away are St. James's Park Lake and Ludgate Hill.
Tips worth knowing
Getting the most from bespoke kitchens starts with the planning and carries on after fitting day. These are worth keeping in mind:
- Have damp sorted before fitting
- Make sure an island will not crowd the room
- Think about how the cabinets will get in
- Give the paint time to cure fully
Hand-painted kitchens are easy to touch up. Spray-painted finishes are smooth and even, and clean easily with a soft cloth. Keep a note of the paint colours.
If you live in a leasehold flat, check your lease before changing the kitchen. Your lease is something to check with whoever manages the building.
From workshop to your room
Once the main sections are fixed in place, any doors go on and any drawers or lids are fitted. We adjust each one so the gaps line up and it closes cleanly, and then we check it all again. How long fitting takes depends on the kitchen’s size and how many other trades are involved, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Older London houses often have narrow hallways and tight turns on the stairs, so the furniture comes in sections sized for the route in. Floors and stair carpets are protected on the way in and out, and the sections are joined and scribed in the room.
- We start with how you use the kitchen and what is not working.
- We visit, measure the walls, floor and ceiling, and go through the design, including where the sink and appliances will go.
- You get a quote in writing for the cabinets, with the materials and finish set out.
- We build and finish the kitchen in our workshop.
- We fit the cabinets in your home; plumbing, gas and electrics are done by your plumber, a Gas Safe engineer and your electrician.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Keep pets in another room while we work
Getting a quote
To get a quote, use our contact form and tell us which room you have in mind. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and a quote in writing follows.
Related advice
Where other trades come in
It is worth being clear about where our work stops:
- Knocking through or rebuilding walls
- Gas work, which is for a Gas Safe registered engineer
- Plastering, tiling or decorating
If in doubt, you can fill in our short enquiry form and describe the room. Our process from visit to fitting.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Larders and dressers
- Islands where space allows