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What Is A Bespoke Kitchen?

Bespoke kitchen and furniture design is what it says on the tin - everything, and we mean absolutely everything, is bespoke and tailor made for you fitting with your space, needs and personality. Not only is the design and bespoke cabinetry style of kitchen created for you but it’s the custom features like handles, taps, worktops etc. that you pick yourself with our designers that pull it all together. When you open the cabinets, drawers or doors you see all the bespoke features and storage options that make everything unique - think peg drawers, plugs in the right places, different height shelving, ladders to reach up high, chopping board storage and much much more.

Bespoke kitchen drawings by Herringbone kitchens

The Process is Bespoke

What’s more is the process, which is also bespoke. Our master craftspeople make each piece of furniture using traditional techniques and modern machinery in our workshop in Canterbury. Our skilled joiners are fully employed members of the team (which is unique in the industry) and work with you throughout the fit, to make the project as seamless as possible.

Fitted bespoke kitchen by herringbone kitchens, yellow tiles in bespoke kitchen, in Chelsea London

The Materials are Sustainable and Long Lasting

In addition we believe the ingredient to long lasting kitchens is using considered materials that have been well cared for. Every material used in your kitchen cabinet is from companies with strong sustainability records. In that way, we know that our kitchens are not just valued by our customers but are good for the earth and future generations. Our timbers are sourced from well managed, responsible forests where the cycle of clearing and replanting has been continuous for many generations.

We only use temperate hard and soft woods and avoid endangered tropical timbers where logging practices are generally less well controlled and regulated. We use indigenous British species wherever possible and we plant a tree for every kitchen made. For each bespoke kitchen we make we dedicate a tree to the National Forest, a regeneration project across 200 square miles in the Midlands.

Making a bespoke kitchen in the Herringbone Kitchens workshop in Canterbury Kent

The Colours are Bespoke to You

All of your colours are also bespoke and you can choose from a large range of paints from our Herringbone Paints range however, we also customise and colour match for you if you are super set on one particular colour. We made a conscious decision to only use water-based low VOC paint, which is very rare in this industry. While it was not the easy option, we felt true to our ethos. We have worked tirelessly to come up with a method that makes using water-based paint both practical for the kitchen and eco-friendly.

Everything you get from the process, service and design to the finished kitchen, storage and custom features are unique to you. Read more on pricing for our bespoke kitchens here and if you’d like to talk to us about how you can start designing your dream kitchens book a consultation here.