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Merton · London
Crooked Billet Bespoke Kitchens
Bespoke kitchens for your home in Crooked Billet: bespoke and fitted kitchens with cabinets made to the room. We visit to measure and talk through the design, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it.
- A kitchen for a room that is not square
- Extra cupboard space
- Cabinets for a narrow kitchen
Need bespoke kitchens in Crooked Billet?
Pricing bespoke kitchens in Crooked Billet
When we put a quote together, we consider:
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The overall size of the piece
- How many doors and drawers there are
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. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
What to send when you get in touch
To give us a picture of the room, it’s useful to include:
- Your postcode and the borough
- A few pictures of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- How you want to use the space
- Radiators, sockets, pipes or meters on or near the wall
To make a start, use our contact form and tell us a little about the room and roughly what you’d like. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and a quote in writing follows.
Bespoke kitchens for homes in Crooked Billet
A bespoke kitchen is built around the room you have. Every unit is sized from careful measurements taken at the design visit, so the runs fit neatly from wall to wall. The layout, storage and finish are planned with you before anything is built in our workshop. Typical reasons to get in touch are an island where space allows and a kitchen planned around your appliances; the furniture is made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted.
In a kitchen, the paint colour sets the feel of the room. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish from the workshop, while hand painting can be done on site and touched up easily. Whatever your home in Crooked Billet is like, the choice is yours.
The furniture is made in our workshop after you’ve had the quote and decided to go ahead. The quote sets out the agreed design, materials and finish, so you can check every detail beforehand.
- Location
- Crooked Billet (SW19, SW20)
- Borough
- Merton
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it’s made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Kitchens in Crooked Billet homes
About 34% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Crooked Billet went up before 1919, and about 21% between 1919 and 1939, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how kitchens are fixed and fitted. Crooked Billet is partly covered by the Wimbledon West Conservation Area, one of the conservation areas recorded by Historic England. Fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission in a conservation area, as the controls are mainly about the outside of buildings. If you want to be certain, ask the council’s planning team. Parking controls in London are set borough by borough, so Merton has its own. Depending on your street in Crooked Billet, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a council bay suspension may be needed. Parking near your home is worth mentioning at the measuring visit.
Living in a block of flats near Raynes Park station? Then the route in is measured not just the room, and the sections are sized to fit it. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, such as Southside House, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features. For a family home near Wimbledon College, a drawer set aside for lunch boxes and water bottles keeps mornings calmer.
Crooked Billet is part of the London Borough of Merton, about 1 mile east of Wimbledon. We design and make bespoke kitchens for homes in Crooked Billet and across Merton, as part of our work in every London borough. Across Merton, we cover Crooked Billet and the places around it.
Here we cover the SW19 and SW20 postcode area for bespoke kitchens. Streets in the area include Camp Road, Mckay Road and Pepys Road, and we cover homes on all of them for bespoke kitchens. Neighbouring places we cover for bespoke kitchens include Copse Hill (1 mile south-west), Wimbledon (1 mile east), Bushey Mead (1 mile south), Wimbledon Chase (1 mile south-east) and Kingston Vale (1 mile north-west). Across the rest of Merton, our area takes in Colliers Wood (3 miles east), Morden (2 miles south-east), Eastfields (3 miles east), Merton Abbey (2 miles east), Mitcham (4 miles south-east) and Hackbridge (4 miles south-east).
Landmarks near Crooked Billet
In Crooked Billet, that includes homes near Hollymount School, The Fox and Grapes pub and Ursuline Preparatory School, among other places. The closest station to Crooked Billet is Raynes Park station, roughly 0.9 miles south. Nearby you’ll also find Atkinson Morley Hospital (0.5 miles south-west) and Wimbledon Museum (0.5 miles east). Not far away are Henman Hill and Fishpond Wood and Beverley Meads.
When is bespoke worth it?
Cost matters, and it’s fair to say so: off-the-shelf furniture typically costs less up front. Bespoke makes more sense where the room is awkward, the space is valuable or you want the furniture to look built in.
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. In an older room, standard units rarely manage that.
Fitting day, step by step
Fitting day follows a set order: floors are protected, the sections come in, everything is levelled, scribed to the walls, fixed and finished. At the end, we tidy up and go over the work with you. The time the fitting takes depends on the kitchen’s size and how many other trades are involved, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Before fitting day, we check the route in not just the room, so kitchens arrive in sections that fit through. Floors and doorways are protected while the pieces come in.
- You get in touch and tell us about the room and how you cook.
- At the design visit we measure up and plan the cabinets around the worktop, sink and appliances you choose.
- You receive a quote in writing for the kitchen cabinets.
- We build the cabinets, doors and drawer fronts in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- On fitting day the cabinets go in, scribed and set level, ready for your plumber, electrician and Gas Safe registered engineer to do their part.
Preparing the room
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
- Keep pets in another room while we work
Ask for a quote
Every quote follows a design visit. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, then send a quote in writing. There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. To book a design visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
Related advice
Boards, parts and paint
Birch plywood
Deep pan drawers need a strong box, and birch plywood suits them.
Larder and dresser units
A larder gives tall storage for food and small appliances, made to the space.
Questions from Crooked Billet
Can you make bespoke kitchens for a home in Crooked Billet?
Yes. Crooked Billet is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Merton and London. You can get in touch through our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Crooked Billet?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. 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.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
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.
Do I need the building owner’s consent?
Possibly. It depends on your lease, and some need consent for alterations. We can’t give advice on your lease, so it is worth checking before fitting day.
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. In a listed building, check with the council’s conservation officer before any work.
Is an outside wall a problem for fitted furniture?
It needs a little planning: leaving ventilation behind and inside helps stop condensation. Damp treatment isn’t something we do, so any damp needs sorting first.
Tips worth knowing
Fresh paintwork takes a while to cure fully, so treat it gently at first. After that, a few simple habits help:
- Treat new paintwork gently at first
- Make sure walls are dry before cabinets go in
- Choose your appliances before the design is final
- Check stairs, hallways and lifts for access
Let steam escape when you cook, as steam settling on cabinets over time isn’t good for any finish. Ventilation helps the whole kitchen.
It helps to know which appliances you want early. We size the spaces around them, so late changes can be awkward.