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Bespoke kitchens in Morden, Merton
Bespoke and fitted kitchens with cabinets made to the room, for homes in Morden. We measure, design and quote first, then make it in our workshop and fit it.
- A central island in a larger kitchen
- A kitchen for a room that is not square
- Tall larder storage
Bespoke kitchens in Morden
From workshop to your room
Before anything is fixed, we set the furniture level. Where the floor slopes, we bring the furniture up to level on adjustable feet or a plinth, and that keeps the doors and shelves true. After that, it is fixed to the wall using fixings that suit the wall, whether that’s solid brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. If you have a driveway, it can make unloading simpler, so it is worth mentioning at the design visit. Otherwise, details of permits or nearby bays help. 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 the room and go through the layout, storage and finish, including where the sink and appliances will go.
- We send a quote that sets out the design, materials and finish, for you to read through.
- We build and finish the kitchen in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit the kitchen in your home, while your plumber, a Gas Safe engineer and your electrician handle the plumbing, gas and electrics. We do not arrange those trades, so it’s useful to book them early.
How to prepare
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
Arranging a design visit
If you know what you want, say so; if not, we can work it out together at the visit. The design is talked through at the visit, once we’ve measured, and the written quote that follows sets it out. To arrange a visit, message us from the contact page.
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About our bespoke kitchens in Morden
Moisture-resistant MDF suits kitchens well, because it stays stable and takes paint beautifully. For drawer boxes and shelves, birch plywood is a good choice. Cabinets are spray painted in the workshop or hand painted, in colours agreed with you. Typical reasons to get in touch are a larder for food and small appliances and a painted dresser for the kitchen; the furniture is made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted.
Where a back room and kitchen have been knocked together, a kitchen-diner may have a chimney breast at the dining end, which can frame a dresser or tall cupboards. Around Morden, where interwar homes and semis are a big part of the housing, that’s a feature worth designing around. Any capped chimney stays ventilated.
If the job needs another trade, such as an electrician or a plumber, we will tell you, so it can be arranged before fitting day. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Where
- Morden (SM4, SM3, SW20)
- Area
- Merton
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it is made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Why people ask for bespoke kitchens in Morden
Often the call comes after building work has opened up the space. A new layout deserves a kitchen designed for it. The building work itself is for your builder.
Here’s what bespoke kitchens can help with:
- A central island in a larger kitchen
- Room for everything in the kitchen
- A dresser that suits a period house
- Making the most of a galley kitchen
For a flat near St Helier station, the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Real projects you can actually look at
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
- Have they thought about parking near you?
Honest limits
Damp treatment and building work are for other specialists, and there are a few other limits too:
- Painting the walls around the kitchen
- Building work, like removing walls
- Any work on the gas supply
If in doubt, you can get in touch through our contact form and describe the room before you arrange a visit. How it works.
What it’s made from
- Larders and dressers
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Islands where space allows
Also near Morden
More for homes in Morden
Kitchens in Morden homes
Homes built between 1919 and 1939 make up about 84% of the housing in the streets around Morden, with about 5% built between 1945 and 1972, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. The National Heritage List records 9 entries within half a mile of the centre of Morden. You can check whether a particular building is listed on Historic England’s list. About 53% of households in the streets around Morden live in terraced houses, going by Census 2021 figures from the ONS. Terraced houses often have long, narrow kitchens, so cabinets made to the room’s exact widths make a difference.
If your children go to Morden Primary School or a school nearby, a drawer set aside for lunch boxes and water bottles keeps mornings calmer. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Church of St Lawrence, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can require listed building consent.
Morden is about 2 miles north of Wimbledon, within the London Borough of Merton. We cover Morden as part of our work across Merton. Morden is one of the places in Merton where we make bespoke kitchens.
We make bespoke kitchens across the SM4, SM3 and SW20 postcode area. Streets in the area include London Road, Epsom Road and Holne Chase, and we cover homes on all of them for bespoke kitchens. Morden is near the B279, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. If you’re just outside Morden, we also cover Lower Morden (1 mile south-west), Sutton Common (1 mile south-east) and North Cheam (2 miles south). Other parts of Merton we cover include Wimbledon (2 miles north), Colliers Wood (3 miles north-east), Eastfields (3 miles north-east), South Wimbledon (2 miles north), Merton Abbey (2 miles north-east) and Crooked Billet (2 miles north-west). As one of the bigger places in Merton, Morden is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
What’s near Morden
Around Morden, we cover homes near Merton College, Lord Nelson pub and Glenthorne High School. There’s a railway station in Morden itself: St Helier station. Nearby you’ll also find St. Anthony's Hospital (1 mile south-west) and Wandle Industrial Museum (1.8 miles east). Not far away are Morden Park (park).
What it costs
To work out the quote, we look at:
- Walls and floors that are out of level or out of square
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
We do not publish set prices, because each job is designed for a single room. Instead, we measure, talk through the design and then quote in writing. To arrange a design visit, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Getting in touch
These details help when you contact us:
- Rough sizes, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- How you want to use the space
- Radiators, sockets, pipes or meters on or near the wall
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
To make a start, fill in our short enquiry form and tell us which room you have in mind and roughly what you’d like. We then arrange a design visit to measure and talk through the design, and send you a quote in writing afterwards.
FAQs: bespoke kitchens in Morden
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character can need listed building consent from the council. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Morden?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. It is useful to tell us about parking during the design visit.
Do you do plastering or decorating?
No. We make, fit and finish the furniture, and plastering and decorating are for other trades. The furniture itself is spray painted or hand painted.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
Someone needs to be there to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work, but it is useful to be around at the end.
Do you supply the worktop and appliances?
We plan the kitchen around the worktop, sink and appliances you choose. It helps to choose them before the design is final, and your quote sets out what’s included.
What does a bespoke kitchen cost?
The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose. The size of the room, the number of units and the finish all make a difference. For a design visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
Flat-pack or bespoke?
Flat-pack and off-the-shelf furniture has its place. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job, and it’s easy to buy.
Off-the-shelf cupboards come in fixed sizes, so there is usually a gap left over at the top or at one end. Furniture we make is built to the room’s own sizes, so it can use the full height and width.