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Islington · London
Tufnell Park Bespoke Kitchens
For homes in Tufnell Park, we make bespoke kitchens from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Each piece is finished by spray or by hand, in the colour you choose.
- An island where space allows
- A kitchen that fits an uneven room
- Making the most of a galley kitchen
Bespoke kitchens for your home in Tufnell Park
Bespoke kitchens for homes in Tufnell Park
Older London homes are rarely simple places to fit a kitchen. Few walls are flat, and floors often fall away from the walls, sometimes noticeably over a single run of units. Each cabinet is trimmed to the wall and levelled on a plinth or adjustable feet giving a level line for the worktop you choose. We make kitchens from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, and the things people most often want solved are a pantry cupboard with shelves and drawers and spray-painted or hand-painted cabinets.
Wall cabinets need firm fixings, and older internal walls can be lath and plaster rather than brick. With a large share of the homes around Tufnell Park dating from then, we check each wall before wall cabinets are planned. If a wall cannot take wall cabinets, tall larders or a dresser standing on the floor can do the job.
The furniture is made at our workshop after you’ve had the quote and decided to go ahead. It describes the design, the materials and the finish agreed at the visit, so every detail can be checked first.
- Place
- Tufnell Park (NW5, N19, N7)
- Borough
- Islington
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
FAQs: bespoke kitchens in Tufnell Park
My home in Tufnell Park is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
We measure the route in as well as the room: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. Kitchens are made at our workshop in sections sized to fit that route, then assembled in your flat. It helps to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Will a conservation area stop me having bespoke kitchens fitted in Tufnell Park?
Usually not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, works inside that affect 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.
Do you work on Saturdays?
Yes, we can arrange Saturdays. Let us know when you first get in touch.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
It is a chance to measure properly and talk through what you’d like. We also check the walls and floors and note radiators, sockets and other things in the way, and the written quote comes afterwards.
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. If there is damp, it should be sorted before anything is fitted.
How is the furniture painted?
You can choose between two finishes: spray painted or hand painted. A spray finish is smooth and even, while a hand-painted one is easy to touch up later.
What affects the cost of bespoke kitchens
A few things affect what fitted furniture costs:
- How many doors and drawers there are
- The internal fittings
- Where a van can park, like a permit bay or a bay suspension
- Spray painting or hand painting
Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. The price depends mainly on the size of the piece, how many doors and drawers it has and what goes inside.
Before the design visit
Getting some details early makes the visit more useful. Where you can, include:
- Rough sizes, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- Pictures of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- The type of home and how the room is reached
To get a quote, use our contact form and let us know which room you have in mind. We then arrange a design visit to measure and talk through the design, and send you a quote in writing afterwards.
Made for the room, or bought in a box?
Ready-made units are made to fixed sizes, so the room has to fit the units. Bespoke cabinets are made to the room’s real sizes, so the runs can fill the space properly. Ready-made pieces are proportioned for newer homes and can look lost in an older one, whereas fitted pieces can pick up the room’s height and mouldings, with panels and details to suit the house.
How it’s painted is part of the price: spray painting is done in the workshop, while hand painting can be done on site. The written quote reflects your choice, along with the size and fittings.
Why work with us in Tufnell Park
- Every quote follows a design visit
- We work across all London boroughs
- Made in our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Saturdays by prior arrangement
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf and what a quote should include.
Where other trades come in
Our work is the furniture itself: designing it, making it in our workshop and fitting it. In practice, that means:
- Knocking through or rebuilding walls
- Plastering, tiling or decorating
- Connecting a gas hob or cooker
If in doubt, you can message us from the contact page and describe the room before you arrange a visit. Our process from visit to fitting.
Materials and parts
- Spray-painted finish
- Larders and dressers
- Hand-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Islands where space allows
- Birch plywood
Also near Tufnell Park
What else we make in Tufnell Park
Kitchens in Tufnell Park homes
In the neighbourhood around Tufnell Park, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 56%) and between 1973 and 1999 (about 15%), 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. Tufnell Park is partly covered by a conservation area, going by Historic England’s data. Fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission in a conservation area, as the controls are largely about how buildings look from outside. If you are unsure, check with the council before work starts. Purpose-built flats are home to about 47% of households in the neighbourhood around Tufnell Park, the 2021 Census shows. For a flat, kitchens are made in sections sized for the stairs, the lift and the doors. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.
If you live near Whittington Park, a cupboard by the back door for boots and coats can be built in with the kitchen. The wider area includes historic houses like Witanhurst, about 1.2 miles north-west. If your own home is a period one, a narrow back addition or an old chimney breast may shape the kitchen layout. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Church of St Mary Brookfield, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent.
Tufnell Park is about 2 miles east of Highbury, in the London Borough of Islington. From period terraces to newer flats in Tufnell Park, the furniture is designed around the room as we find it. We cover places right across Islington.
Postcode districts we cover here for bespoke kitchens: NW5, N19 and N7. If your home is on a street like Hugo Road, Ward Road and Anson Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for bespoke kitchens. Close by, we also work in Dartmouth Park (1 mile west), Upper Holloway (1 mile north), Gospel Oak (1 mile west), Lissenden Gardens (1 mile west) and Holloway (1 mile east). Across the rest of Islington, our area takes in Highbury (2 miles east), Farringdon (3 miles south-east), Clerkenwell (3 miles south-east), Finsbury (3 miles south-east), St Luke's (3 miles south-east) and Islington (2 miles south-east).
Around Tufnell Park
In Tufnell Park, that includes homes near Acland Burghley School, The Boston Arms Public House and Musical Theatre Academy. For rail, the closest station is Upper Holloway station, roughly 0.5 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are Arsenal Football Club Museum (1.1 miles east) and Royal Northern Hospital (0.5 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Dartmouth Park Hill and Gillespie Park.
Fitting day, step by step
Finishing comes last. If the furniture was spray painted in the workshop, we fill the fixing holes and touch up on site; if you chose hand painting, that can be done in the room once the furniture is fitted. Either way, the finish is the one set out in your quote. In a period home, the furniture is fitted to walls that aren’t straight, so there’s some trimming and adjusting on site. We protect the floors and keep dust to a minimum. Parking can be tight on terraced streets, so tell us about permits and bays at the measuring visit.
- To begin, use our contact form; a brief note on the room and the kitchen you have in mind is plenty.
- We visit to measure the room and go through the layout, the storage and where the appliances will sit.
- You receive a quote in writing for the kitchen cabinets. Plumbing, gas and electrics are not part of it: those are for your plumber, an engineer on the Gas Safe Register and your electrician.
- 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.
Before we arrive
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Take anything hanging off the wall we are fitting to
Starting with a design visit
Every quote follows a design visit. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, and the written quote comes after. Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. To arrange a visit, use our contact form.
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Before and after fitting day
A little care keeps the finish looking good. These practical tips help:
- Measure the route into the kitchen
- Give the paint time to cure fully
- Deal with damp walls first
- Know your appliance sizes early
If a hand-painted door gets a chip, it can be touched in. A spray finish gives a smooth, even surface that wipes clean. Keep a note of the paint colours.
Think about how the cabinets will get in. Workshop-made furniture comes in sections sized for stairs, hallways and lifts, so tell us about tight turns or small lifts.