Kitchen Renovation in Clapham

Clapham runs on its food and social life, so people here want a kitchen that works for cooking and for having friends round in equal measure. The Victorian terraces around Clapham Common, The Pavement and Abbeville Village give us a lot to work with, and we have been rebuilding kitchens in these houses for years.

Most Clapham terraces have the same setup. A rear reception room, then a load bearing wall, then a cramped little kitchen behind it. Our most common job is taking that wall out, building into the side return and turning the lot into one open plan room that runs the full width of the house. We usually fit big sliding doors at the back so the kitchen opens straight onto the garden. That is the room people actually live in.

We also do full basement conversions where the structure allows it, putting a lower ground floor kitchen and dining room underneath the house. These jobs are involved and they take digging out, but the extra space they give is hard to beat. They tend to suit the larger houses around Clapham Common North Side and Crescent Grove.

Every kitchen we build in Clapham gets the services brought up to scratch as standard. New lighting, dedicated circuits for the appliances, better water pressure and smart home wiring if you want it. We would rather do it properly once than have you back in a few years.

Clapham sits in the London Borough of Lambeth and the housing is mostly Victorian terrace. The streets running off Clapham Common, Grafton Square, Crescent Grove and the Abbeville Road area among them, hold some of the most wanted family homes in south London.

Lambeth Council will usually allow single storey rear extensions and side return infills under permitted development. The area is full of young professional families who want a big modern kitchen, and the local market pays back a good kitchen with a real jump in value.