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Bespoke Kitchens in New Charlton
Walls in older London homes are rarely straight, so we scribe the furniture to follow them. Our work on bespoke kitchens in New Charlton starts with a design visit, and everything is made at our workshop.
- A kitchen for a room that isn’t square
- A painted kitchen in a colour you choose
- Cabinets for a narrow kitchen
Bespoke kitchens in New Charlton
About our bespoke kitchens in New Charlton
A kitchen needs other trades as well as a carpenter. Plumbing is done by your plumber, gas by an engineer on the Gas Safe Register and electrics by your electrician, so the design allows for pipes, cables and connections. We make kitchens from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted, and people most often get in touch about a kitchen planned around your appliances and a kitchen finished in your colours.
In a kitchen, the paint colour sets the feel of the room. Cabinets can be spray-painted in the workshop or hand-painted on site. For a kitchen in New Charlton, either can work, and the colour is agreed with you.
Where other trades are needed, for example an electrician to move a socket, we point that out. The quote itself covers our work, from the design to the materials and finish.
- Location
- New Charlton (SE7, SE18, E16)
- Borough
- Greenwich
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
What it’s made from
Spray-painted finish
Spray-painted cabinets arrive finished, which keeps work in your home to fitting.
Larder and dresser units
They’re a good way to use an alcove or the end of a wall.
Questions from New Charlton
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, changes inside that alter its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in New Charlton?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. Let us know what parking is near you at the design visit.
Can you come on a Saturday?
Yes, Saturdays are possible by prior arrangement. Let us know when you first get in touch.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need someone to let us in at the start of the day. It also helps to have someone around at the end, so we can go over the finished furniture together.
What are the kitchen cabinets made of?
Our kitchens are made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, then spray painted or hand painted. Your quote sets out the materials and finish.
Do you make the furniture yourselves?
Each piece is built in our workshop for the room it’s going into, then fitted in your home. We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
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What affects the cost of bespoke kitchens
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. The main factors are:
- How square the room is
- Where a van can park, like a permit bay or a bay suspension
- The width and height of the space
- The internal fittings
Access to the room makes a difference too. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying, and that’s part of the price. Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured.
What to send when you contact us
To give us a picture of the room, it is useful to include:
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
The design visit is where every quote starts. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and talk through the design with you. Afterwards, we send a written quote for you to look over. To arrange the visit, send us a few details through our contact form.
From workshop to your room
There isn’t much for you to do on fitting day. We need someone to let us in at the start, and it is useful to have the room cleared beforehand, as we’ll have talked about at the measuring visit. After that, it is over to us: the floors are covered, the sections come in and the fitting begins. How long the fitting takes depends on the size of the kitchen and the design, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. If you live in a block, check any rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours; for a house, steps, paths and parking are the things to mention. We plan the details of the day during the design visit. Saturdays can be arranged.
- You get in touch and describe the kitchen you want.
- At the design visit we plan the kitchen and talk about colours and finish.
- Your written quote sets out the design, the materials and the finish.
- We make the kitchen in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF, which suits kitchens and takes paint well, and birch plywood.
- We fit the cabinets in your home; a hand-painted finish is applied on site and is easy to touch up later.
- Treat new paint gently while it cures; the plumbing, gas and electrics are done by your own plumber, a Gas Safe engineer and your electrician.
Before we arrive
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
How to get a quote
For a quote for bespoke kitchens in New Charlton, get in touch through our contact form. Let us know which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, plus any rough measurements. We will arrange a design visit, then send a written quote.
Related advice
Bespoke kitchens for homes in New Charlton
Homes built before 1919 make up about 34% of the housing in the neighbourhood around New Charlton, with about 29% built between 1945 and 1972, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). That matters for kitchens, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. New Charlton is partly covered by a conservation area, going by Historic England’s data. 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. In inner London, a large part of the street parking sits inside borough-run controlled parking zones. For fitting in New Charlton, a van normally needs a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. We ask about parking at the design visit, so the van can be planned for.
Queen's House, about 1.8 miles west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, cabinets will be scribed to walls and floors that are rarely true. If you live in a period home close to St Catherine Labouré, a narrow back addition or an old chimney breast may shape the kitchen layout.
New Charlton is part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, about 2 miles east of Plumstead. Design visits and fitting in New Charlton can be on a Saturday, by prior arrangement. Across Greenwich, we cover New Charlton and the places around it.
We cover every part of the SE7, SE18 and E16 postcode area for bespoke kitchens. Whether you live on a street such as Floyd Road, Priolo Road and Hasted Road or on one nearby, we can visit to measure up for bespoke kitchens. Other places close to New Charlton include Charlton (1 mile south-east), Westcombe Park (1 mile south-west), Woolwich (1 mile east), Vanbrugh Park Estate (1 mile south-west) and Maze Hill (2 miles south-west). Across the rest of Greenwich, our area takes in Plumstead (2 miles east), Eltham (3 miles south), Well Hall (2 miles south), Coldharbour (4 miles south), Kidbrooke (2 miles south) and New Eltham (4 miles south).
Around New Charlton
Our area takes in the homes around Wildwood Montessori School and The Victoria pub. New Charlton has its own railway station: Charlton station. A little further out are Charlton Athletic Museum (a few minutes’ walk south) and British Hospital for Mothers and Babies (0.6 miles east). For a walk, there is Gilbert's Pit.
Caring for painted furniture
People planning bespoke kitchens often ask about these. They’re worth knowing before and after fitting:
- Allow space to walk round an island
- Have damp sorted before fitting
- Give the paint time to cure fully
- Talk to your other trades in good time
Do not leave water sitting on painted cabinets, particularly around the sink and dishwasher. Even moisture-resistant materials last better when kept dry.
Think about how the cabinets will get in. We make the cabinets in sections that fit through the doors and up the stairs, so let us know about any narrow spots.
The problems bespoke kitchens solve
In a flat, the kitchen may share a wall with the living space or sit in a narrow galley. We can design for a galley, an alcove or a corner, so every run is used.
If you recognise any of these, it’s worth talking to us:
- A kitchen island with room around it
- Room for everything in the kitchen
- A larder for food and small appliances
- Making the most of a galley kitchen
If you live near Thames Barrier Park, a cupboard by the back door for boots and coats can be built in with the kitchen.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Real projects you can actually look at
- Have they thought about parking near you?
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home