A walnut and concrete kitchen finished for a Lymington family in 2025
17years on
The Avenue
For the Howards, Lymington — finished January.
A Southampton showroom

The kitchen as the warmest room in the house.

Bespoke German kitchens — Nobilia, Rotpunkt, Häcker, Schüller — designed in Southampton, fitted by our own team, lived in for the next twenty years. Six designers, one showroom, no commission, no pressure.

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184Projects · 2009–'26
6In-house designers
5 yrWorkmanship guarantee

Recently finished.

A handful of kitchens we've handed over this winter — every one with people now living in it.
For the Howards, Lymington
Walnut + Concrete · January 2026
For the Patels, Southampton
Black + Bluestone · December 2025
For Anna & Tom, Winchester
Hand-painted Sage · December 2025
For the Bennetts, Romsey
Smoked Oak · November 2025
For Margaret, Hythe
Quartzite Galley · October 2025
For the Olawales, Bishopstoke
Matt Graphite · October 2025
The showroom

Six full kitchens, plumbed and lit, on The Avenue.

The showroom isn't a shop. It's six kitchens at full scale — different layouts, different finishes, different temperatures — selected so that nothing repeats. You can run a tap, slide a drawer, sit at the island and put a coffee down.

Most clients visit three times before they specify. We expect that. The appointments are an hour each, and the designer who answers the door is the designer who'll be on your project.

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The Southampton showroom photographed in morning light
— the front showroom, Saturday morning —

On finishes.

Six families of finish, each one chosen for a different temperament of room. Click any to see the kitchens we've fitted in it.

Wood, warmly47 projects

Oak, walnut, smoked, rough-cut. The finish that improves with twenty years of family.

Painted by hand31 projects

Hand-painted Shaker — sage, olive, slate, bone — finished on site to match a room.

Matt, quietly39 projects

Graphite, sand, anthracite. For rooms that want to recede so the people stand forward.

Stone, solid22 projects

Quartzite, marble, Belgian bluestone. Considered as primary finish, not just worktop.

Gloss, brightly28 projects

White, cashmere, black. For north-facing rooms that need every photon they can get.

Metallic, boldly17 projects

Brass, bronze, blackened steel. A finish that asks for confidence, and rewards it.
The Howards kitchen in use
— eleven months later, with the girls —
A finished project

When the Howards came to us, they had a 1920s house and a two-year-old running through it.

Most of our briefs start the same way: a young family, an old house, a kitchen that hasn't been right since the people moved in. The Howards' was a north-facing scullery built in 1923 — long, narrow, three doors leading off it, no good place to sit down.

Eighty days from first measure to handover. A Rotpunkt walnut frame, 28m² of polished concrete floor, a single Belgian-bluestone island that was craned in through the back wall. The girls have made paint marks on the cabinet doors already. We told the Howards that's correct.

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In their words

The kitchens we make are made for the people who'll live in them.

We took eighty days to specify what most agencies sell from a brochure. The kitchen we ended up with is not a product. It is a room — and now the warmest room in the house.
— Sarah & Daniel HowardLymington · January 2026

How we work.

Three steps. No commission, no pressure, no hidden specification line items. The pricing you see is what you pay.
one.

An hour at the showroom

You come in. We show you the six kitchens, ask about the room, and put the kettle on. By the end of the hour we know what we're designing for, and you've met the designer who'll do it.

60 minutes · no charge
two.

A site visit, then a specification

We measure the room, walk through the brief, and write you a fixed-price specification within ten working days. Every line item is itemised — door range, worktop, hardware, appliance, fitting.

10 working days · fixed-price
three.

Our team fits the kitchen

Our own fitters, never sub-contracted. A typical install is two weeks for the cabinetry and a week for the worktop. We hand the keys back, you hand the kettle on, and we come back at twelve months for a courtesy check.

3 weeks typical install
A few ways to begin —

The first conversation costs nothing and takes an hour.

Most clients begin with the brochure. The brave ones book straight in. Either is fine — we'll see you at The Avenue when you're ready.

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