Kensington, London W8
Kensington Mews House
Handleless kitchen in taupe & cream
The project
A handleless matt lacquer kitchen in taupe and cream, designed for a narrow mews plan where every millimetre of circulation mattered. Push-to-open fronts keep the elevation completely flat.
The effort behind it
Access was the whole story: the mews door is 780mm wide, so the island was engineered as four bolted sections that could be carried in by hand and reassembled with concealed cross-dowels. The colour was matched to a fragment of the client's own plaster sample across six spray tests before sign-off.
Challenges faced
The Kensington Mews House brief looked simple on paper and was anything but on the bench. Working in Kensington, London W8 meant tight delivery windows, a live household, and materials that each behaved differently through the seasons — timber moving against stone that never does. The matt lacquer & composite combination demanded tolerances of ±1mm across long runs, and every component was dry-assembled in the workshop before a single van left for site.
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 Kensington, London W8 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 Kensington, London W8 to the workshop, and the Kensington Mews House pieces remain in daily use exactly as installed: drawers that still close silently, doors still true, and timber that has mellowed rather than worn.
