Kitchen Renovation in Chelsea

The Georgian and early Victorian townhouses around Chelsea come with kitchens that have to work hard on two fronts. They need to feel modern day to day, and they need to sit right within a period building. We build them both ways, whether the house is on a quiet garden square off Kings Road or a stucco fronted terrace near Sloane Square.

Basement kitchens are the Chelsea job we do most. A lot of these lower ground floors start out dark and low, and we bring them back to life with pavement lights, a rear lightwell, and full width glazed doors onto a sunken courtyard. Plenty of these projects need underpinning and a lowered slab to claw back head height. That is proper structural work, and we do a lot of it round here.

Materials matter to Chelsea clients, so we tend towards natural stone worktops, hand painted Shaker cabinetry, brass hardware, and engineered oak floors. We buy British where we can. We are happy working to your interior designer's drawings or from our own designs, whichever suits.

One foreman runs your site from start to finish. That keeps the noise, dust, and deliveries under control, which counts for a lot on these tight residential streets. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is strict on construction hours, and we keep to them.

Chelsea falls inside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which runs some of the tightest planning and conservation rules in London. Houses on Cheyne Walk, Tite Street, and the garden squares off Fulham Road are often Grade II listed. That means external changes, a new extraction flue included, need listed building consent before anyone lifts a tool.

The standard Chelsea townhouse is narrow and deep, with the kitchen down at lower ground level. Renovating one usually means real structural work to open up cramped rooms and pull in daylight. The spend is easy to justify. A well done basement kitchen is one of the features Chelsea buyers want most.