Kitchen Renovation in Balham

Balham has turned into one of South London's real family neighbourhoods, and the Victorian terraces along Bedford Hill, Ramsden Road and the streets around Balham High Road are in serious demand. We help owners here get the most out of their kitchens, taking a poky back room and turning it into a bright kitchen diner that actually works for family life.

The classic Balham terrace follows the same plan every time. Front reception, rear reception, then a narrow kitchen at the back. A lot of our jobs mean taking down the wall between the rear reception and the kitchen for one open plan space, or extending into the side return to add width and a proper run of units under a glazed lean-to roof.

We sweat the details that tie the kitchen back into the house. Matching the skirting profiles, restoring an original ceiling rose in the reception, picking colours that carry through, so the new kitchen reads as part of a Victorian home and not something stuck on the end.

Being close to Tooting Bec Common, plenty of these houses have south or west facing gardens. We plan the rear glazing to make the most of it, so the kitchen fills with afternoon and evening sun. That is a genuine treat in London.

Balham sits in the London Borough of Wandsworth, centred on Balham High Road and the triangle between Bedford Hill, Balham Park Road and Tooting Bec Common. The housing is mostly Victorian terrace. A lot was split into flats over the years and has since been put back together as family houses as the area has come up.

Kitchen work is about the most popular improvement in Balham. Young families here want open plan living, a link to the garden and a sociable place to cook, which makes a modern kitchen the single biggest upgrade a terrace can get.