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Upper Holloway Bespoke Kitchens
Bespoke kitchens in Upper Holloway: bespoke and fitted kitchens with cabinets made to the room. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home.
- A layout for a small or awkward room
- A kitchen finished in your colours
- A pantry cupboard with shelves and drawers
Bespoke kitchens designed for your room
Questions we are often asked
Do you cover homes near Upper Holloway station?
Yes, homes across Islington and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Will a conservation area stop me having bespoke kitchens fitted in Upper Holloway?
Normally not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character can require listed building consent from the council. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
How long will the kitchen take to fit?
It depends on the kitchen. How long fitting takes depends on the kitchen’s size and how many other trades are involved, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote, so you can plan your other trades around it.
Will a bespoke kitchen suit my uneven floor?
Yes. We scribe each cabinet to the wall and set it level on adjustable feet or a plinth, so the worktop you choose can sit level. It’s one of the main reasons people choose bespoke in an older house.
Do I need to be in when you fit?
We need someone to let us in at the start of the day. It is good to have someone there at the end to look over the work with us.
Who chooses the colour?
The choice is yours. Spray and hand-painted finishes both use the colour you’ve chosen.
Bespoke kitchens in Upper Holloway: what you get
Islands work well in kitchens with room to walk around them. We check there is comfortable space on every side, and in a narrow kitchen an island can make the room harder to use. If the room is narrow, we’ll suggest other layouts. We make kitchens from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and the things people most often want solved are spray-painted or hand-painted cabinets and spaces sized for your oven and fridge.
Older homes usually have generous ceiling heights, and around Upper Holloway, a large share of homes are that age. Kitchen cabinets can go higher, with tall larders and top cupboards for occasional things. Moisture-resistant MDF suits a kitchen, and the paint finish is agreed in your quote.
Everything we agree at the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If something is not quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Location
- Upper Holloway (N19, N7, N6)
- Area
- Islington
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Before and after fitting day
Getting the most from bespoke kitchens starts with the planning and carries on after fitting day. Here are some things worth bearing in mind:
- Measure the route into the kitchen
- Choose your appliances before the design is final
- Treat new paintwork gently at first
- List what needs a home in the kitchen
The appliances you’ve chosen come with their own care instructions, and the worktop you chose will have its own care advice too.
It is useful to know which appliances you want early. Their sizes shape the cabinets, and changing them later can mean changing the units.
How fitting day works
Period rooms often have skirting boards, picture rails, cornices or coving for the furniture to meet. On fitting day, we cut and scribe the furniture around these details, so it sits neatly against the room. How long fitting takes depends on the kitchen’s size and how many other trades are involved, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. In a period home, the furniture is fitted to walls that are not straight, so each piece is trimmed and adjusted on site. We protect the floors and keep dust to a minimum. It’s useful to tell us about parking during the design visit, as terraced streets are often busy.
- We start with how you use the kitchen and what isn’t working.
- 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 units are made and finished in our workshop.
- The kitchen is fitted in your home, and your plumber, electrician and an engineer on the Gas Safe Register do the plumbing, electrics and gas.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
Getting a quote
The quote is built from the design visit. We take full measurements, see how true the walls and floors are and work through the design together. A written quote follows the visit, so you can take your time with it. To book one, get in touch through our contact form.
Related advice
Flats, leases and landlords
Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Let us know about them at the measuring visit, so fitting day is planned around them.
Many London terraces have been converted into flats, and that often means a shared hallway and a tight turn on the stairs. Each section is sized with that in mind, after measuring the route during the design visit.
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Kitchens in Upper Holloway homes
About 59% of the homes in the area around Upper Holloway went up before 1919, and about 16% between 1973 and 1999, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We take that into account at the measuring visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. The National Heritage List records 14 entries within half a mile of the centre of Upper Holloway. You can check whether a particular building is listed on Historic England’s list. In inner London, a large part of the street parking sits inside borough-run controlled parking zones. A van working in Upper Holloway will typically need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension arranged through the council, which often needs notice. We ask about parking at the measuring visit, so the van can be planned for.
If you live in a period home close to St Andrew's Whitehall Park, tall ceilings can take larder cupboards right up to the top. Witanhurst, about 0.9 miles west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, cabinets will be scribed to walls and floors that are rarely true.
Upper Holloway is within the London Borough of Islington, about 2 miles south-east of Highbury. We cover Upper Holloway as part of our work across Islington, and the process is the same everywhere we work. Upper Holloway is one of 17 places on our list for Islington.
Design visits and fitting in N19, N7 and N6 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. We cover homes on streets such as Ward Road, Kiver Road and Foxham Road, whether you want bespoke kitchens or another piece made for the room. Upper Holloway is near the A103, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you contact us. If you are just outside Upper Holloway, we also cover Tufnell Park (1 mile south), Dartmouth Park (1 mile south-west), Highgate (1 mile north-west), Nag's Head (1 mile south-east) and Holloway (1 mile south-east). Across the rest of Islington, our area takes in Highbury (2 miles south-east), Farringdon (3 miles south), Clerkenwell (3 miles south-east), Finsbury (3 miles south-east), St Luke's (3 miles south-east) and Islington (2 miles south-east).
What’s near Upper Holloway
Around Upper Holloway, we cover homes near City of London Academy, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and The Mother Red Cap pub, among other places. Upper Holloway has its own railway station: Upper Holloway station. Other landmarks nearby include Royal Northern Hospital (0.5 miles south-east) and Arsenal Football Club Museum (1.2 miles south-east). Green spaces nearby include Parkland Walk and Dartmouth Park Hill.
The problems bespoke kitchens solve
Many people come to us because a standard kitchen does not suit their room. Off-the-shelf cabinets come in set widths, leaving gaps at the ends and above. Bespoke cabinets are built to the real sizes instead.
If you recognise any of these, it is worth talking to us:
- A pantry cupboard with shelves and drawers
- A kitchen finished in your colours
- Cabinets built around the appliances you choose
- Open shelves with cupboards below
If your children go to St John's Upper Holloway CofE Primary School or a school nearby, planning a kitchen around family routines, with a place for school things, pays off.
Choosing a carpenter
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- Have they thought about parking near you?
- Will the quote be in writing?
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
What affects the price in Upper Holloway
The price for your room depends on:
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
- Access to the room, like stairs, lifts and narrow halls
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
- The width and height of the space
Rooms that aren’t square take more work: walls that lean, floors that slope and sloping ceilings all mean more scribing and cutting. The quote allows for it, which we write after seeing the room.
Getting in touch
What helps most when you first contact us:
- Rough sizes, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- Examples of the look you’re after
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
For a quote for bespoke kitchens in Upper Holloway, send us a few details through our contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea, with sizes if you have them. We will arrange a design visit, then send a quote in writing.