Modern European Cabinetry, Measured and Built for Your Room

We don't run one, and that is a deliberate choice. A showroom is expensive floor space that clients end up paying for in the price of their cabinets, and it shows finishes under lighting that has nothing to do with your house. Our consultant brings the samples to your kitchen table instead — super-matte and gloss panels, textured laminate, veneer, a cut length of gola profile, and drawer runners you can open — and you judge them against your own floors, counters and daylight.

Plan on an hour to ninety minutes. We look at the room, talk through how you use it and what frustrates you about it now, and go through samples together. Measurements get taken before the consultant leaves if you want to take it further. A computerized design and a detailed estimate follow within a couple of days, at no charge and with no obligation at any point.

It depends which system you choose. A gola profile sets a recessed aluminium channel between the drawer banks, so your fingers go into the channel rather than onto the front — and a cloth runs the length of it in one pass. An integrated finger-pull machines the same idea into the door edge itself, with no metal showing at all. Push-to-open asks for a light press on the face, which is where marks collect, so we specify it with an anti-fingerprint front and usually keep it off the drawers your family opens twenty times a day. Slim bar pulls stay on the list for anyone who would simply rather hold something.

Super-matte anti-fingerprint lacquer is what we specify most, because the surface scatters light and the oils from a hand largely disappear into it. Standard matte sits close behind, though it shows more on a dark colour. High gloss is the most striking finish we build and the least forgiving: an acrylic-faced panel from Senosan or Alvic wipes clean in seconds, but it holds every fingerprint until you do. Dark gloss in a south-facing room asks more of a household than most people want to give, and we say so before the order goes in.

Yes, and the reason is geometry rather than marketing. A face frame runs stiles down both sides of the opening, so the drawer box has to be narrower than the cabinet and part of every shelf sits behind timber. A frameless box has none of that: the drawer runs the full inside width, the opening is the whole front, and across a wall of base units the difference is worth a drawer on its own. It also lets tall banks and integrated appliances sit flush, which is difficult to pull off convincingly with a frame in the way.

Yes. Modern European is what we build most and design best, but five-piece Shaker, painted inset and traditional profiles are still made here on request — same shop, same hardware, same drawer boxes. Tell the consultant at the first visit, because it changes the drawings rather than the standard of the work.

Kitchens are the bulk of the work, but the same frameless construction, edgebanding and hardware go into walk-in closets, bedroom wardrobes, living room built-ins, basement bars, home offices, laundry rooms, mudrooms, garages and freestanding pieces. Clients regularly start with one room and come back for the rest of the house a year later.

Yes, where the existing boxes are sound, square and sensibly laid out. New slab fronts, a gola rail and current hardware on solid carcases can be real value. Face-frame boxes are the harder case, because a handleless front never quite settles onto a frame and the reveal gives it away. When the boxes are sagging particleboard, or the layout is the actual problem, refacing spends serious money without fixing anything — and we will say so rather than take the order.

Production generally runs six to ten weeks from approved drawings, with design and revisions ahead of that. Imported gola profile, specialty veneer and custom colour development add time. Installing a typical kitchen takes three to five days, plus a return visit once the countertop has been templated and set.

Regularly. We take drawings from designers and builders, produce shop drawings and elevations, flag conflicts with appliance specifications or mechanicals early, and deliver to the site schedule. Pricing and coordination run directly through the designer or builder where that is how the project is set up.