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Kingston upon Thames · London
Bespoke kitchens in New Malden, Kingston upon Thames
Bespoke kitchens in New Malden: bespoke and fitted kitchens with cabinets made to the room. Every piece is made in our workshop and fitted in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- A kitchen for a room that isn’t square
- A kitchen finished in your colours
- Making the most of a galley kitchen
Bespoke kitchens designed for your room
How we price bespoke kitchens
There is no set price, because there’s no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- How square the room is
- The width and height of the space
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
- Doors and drawers, and how many
Awkward rooms take more time: walls that lean, floors that slope and sloping ceilings all mean more scribing and cutting. The quote allows for it.
What we need to know
To help us picture the room, please include:
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- How you want to use the space
- Radiators, sockets, pipes or meters on or near the wall
- Rough measurements, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
To get a quote, get in touch through our contact form and tell us a little about the room and roughly what you’d like. We then arrange a design visit to measure and go through the design, and a written quote follows.
Bespoke kitchens for homes in New Malden
We often use moisture-resistant MDF in kitchens, 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 the colours you choose. If you are living with room for everything in the kitchen and cabinets built around the appliances you choose, kitchens made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish can solve it.
In an area where interwar homes or semis make up much of the housing, as around New Malden, kitchens often have a back door to the garden and a window over the sink. Cabinets, a larder and a dresser can be made to suit the layout. Your chosen worktop, sink and appliances are fitted into the design.
If the job needs another trade, such as an electrician or a plumber, we’ll tell you. The quote itself covers our work, from the design to the materials and finish.
- Place
- New Malden (KT3, KT1, SW20)
- Borough
- Kingston upon Thames
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Questions we are often asked
Do you cover homes near New Malden station?
Yes. We cover all of Kingston upon Thames and the rest of London. To get started, you can send us a few details through our contact form with some details about the room.
Will a conservation area stop me having bespoke kitchens fitted in New Malden?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character can need listed building consent from the council. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
How much does a bespoke kitchen cost?
Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. A small galley and a large kitchen with a larder and island are very different jobs, so we price it after the design visit. To arrange a visit, use our contact form.
Can you fit furniture on an external wall?
External walls can be colder and damper than internal ones, so we allow for ventilation behind and inside the furniture to avoid condensation. Any damp needs sorting by the right specialist before fitting.
What happens during the design visit?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and discuss the design with you. Access and parking are worth talking about too.
Do pictures help?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit. It helps to show radiators, sockets and anything else on the wall.
When you need someone else
We don’t treat damp or carry out building work, and there are a few other limits too:
- Moving water or waste pipes
- Plastering, tiling or decorating
- New sockets or circuits
If in doubt, you can tell us about the room on our contact form and describe the room. Our process from visit to fitting.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Larders and dressers
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Islands where space allows
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
From workshop to your room
In older rooms, the furniture normally has to meet skirting, picture rails, cornice or coving. We cut and scribe the furniture around them on site, so it sits neatly against the room. The time the fitting takes depends on how many units there are and how the room is laid out, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. On fitting day, the sections are carried in, assembled, scribed to the wall and levelled. Hand-painted furniture can be finished on site; spray-painted pieces arrive finished from the workshop. Saturdays can be arranged.
- You get in touch and tell us about the room and how you cook.
- We come to measure up and plan the layout with you.
- You get a written quote for the cabinets, with the materials and finish set out, for you to read through.
- The cabinets, doors and drawer fronts are built in our workshop.
- The kitchen is fitted in your home, and your plumber, electrician and a Gas Safe registered engineer do the plumbing, electrics and gas. We don’t arrange those trades, so it is useful to book them early.
How to prepare
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
Arranging a design visit
It’s useful to see the room before we come. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line tell us a lot about the space, particularly with rough measurements. To share them, fill in our short enquiry form, and we’ll suggest a time for a design visit.
Advice
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there’s typically 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.
If you’re handy, a simple shelf or a standard wardrobe in a square room is a reasonable DIY job. It gets harder with sloping ceilings, out-of-level floors and lath-and-plaster walls, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
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Is bespoke worth it?
Larders, dressers and tall cupboards are hard to find in standard sizes that suit an older room. We can build them to fit, with the same finish as the cabinets. Ready-made units come in standard depths that rarely suit every space, which may be too deep for one spot and too shallow for another. With fitted furniture, the depth is chosen for the room.
The inside of the furniture affects the price as well: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers all add work. We’ll talk through what you need inside at the measuring visit, then set it out in the quote.
Why us?
- Built in our workshop and fitted in your home
- Designed for the room you have
- Finished by spray or by hand
- Fitted tight to walls that are not straight
See how bespoke compares with ready-made and what to look for in a quote.
Kitchens in New Malden: local notes
Homes built between 1919 and 1939 make up about 40% of the housing in the neighbourhood around New Malden, with about 24% built before 1919, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. The Groves Conservation Area is close by, within about a quarter of a mile of the centre of New Malden. Fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission in a conservation area, as the controls are mainly about the outside of buildings. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. Each London borough runs its own parking controls, and Kingston upon Thames is no exception. Depending on your street in New Malden, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a council bay suspension may be needed. Let us know what the parking is like at the design visit.
Near listed buildings like New Malden Library, under half a mile south-east of the centre of New Malden, older homes may keep original joinery that kitchens can be designed around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features. For a flat near New Malden station, the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in. If you live in a period home close to New Malden Baptist Church, a narrow back addition or an old chimney breast may shape the kitchen layout.
New Malden is within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, about 2 miles north-west of Kingston upon Thames. Anywhere in New Malden, it works the same way: a design visit, a written quote, furniture built in our workshop and fitting in your home. In Kingston upon Thames, New Malden is one of the places we cover.
We make bespoke kitchens across the KT3, KT1 and SW20 postcode area. You will find streets here such as High Street, Ashcombe Square and Melrose Gardens, and homes on each of them are within our area for bespoke kitchens. Main roads around New Malden include the B283. If you are just outside New Malden, we also cover Motspur Park (1 mile north-east), West Barnes (1 mile east), Norbiton (1 mile north-west), Coombe (1 mile north) and Raynes Park (1 mile east). Elsewhere in Kingston upon Thames, we also cover Kingston upon Thames (2 miles north-west), Surbiton (2 miles south-west), Hampton Wick (2 miles west), Chessington (3 miles south-west), Seething Wells (2 miles west) and Hook (3 miles south-west). Being one of the larger places in Kingston upon Thames, New Malden is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
Landmarks near New Malden
Around New Malden, we cover homes near Holy Cross School and The Glasshouse pub, among other places. New Malden has its own railway station: New Malden station. Nearby you’ll also find Kingston Hospital (1.2 miles north-west) and Bentall Centre (1.9 miles west). For a walk, there is Rose Walk.