Chelsea, London SW3
Chelsea Penthouse
Kitchen run, wall units & appliance housings
The project
A long fluted timber kitchen run set beneath gloss lacquer wall units, detailed so the horizontal shadow gap between base and wall cabinetry runs dead level across seven metres of a floor that was not.
The effort behind it
The slab was 19mm out over the run. Rather than pack the units and lose the line, the team laser-levelled a hidden steel sub-frame and scribed every plinth individually. The gloss doors were sprayed four times, flatted between coats, and one batch was scrapped entirely after site dust settled on wet lacquer.
Challenges faced
Access, atmosphere and expectation were the three real challenges at Chelsea Penthouse. Chelsea, London SW3 gave us restricted working hours and no room for error on delivery day, while the client's brief called for kitchen run, wall units & appliance housings finished to a standard most workshops would not accept as a final. Two full-size mock-ups were built and rejected before the approved version ever reached production.
Team & involvement
A dedicated team carried the project from first survey to final sign-off: a lead designer working directly with the client, bench joiners who made every component by hand in our London workshop, and fitters who treated the finished rooms in Chelsea, London SW3 as if they were their own. The same hands that cut the timber installed it — no handovers, no lost detail, one point of responsibility throughout.
A successful outcome
The finished work was signed off in a single visit, with no snagging list — the outcome we aim for on every commission. The client has since referred two further projects in Chelsea, London SW3 to the workshop, and the Chelsea Penthouse pieces remain in daily use exactly as installed: drawers that still close silently, doors still true, and timber that has mellowed rather than worn.
