Melamine board
A tough printed surface bonded to board. Hard-wearing, wipes clean, and comes in dozens of woodgrains and solid colours.
Best for Bedroom cupboards, garage and pantry storage, rental units
Size matters less than you'd think. What a kitchen costs is mostly decided by the doors and the worktop — so here's what each option is actually like to cook in, clean and live with.
A tough printed surface bonded to board. Hard-wearing, wipes clean, and comes in dozens of woodgrains and solid colours.
Best for Bedroom cupboards, garage and pantry storage, rental units
Routed and sprayed to a seamless painted finish in any colour you like. The usual choice for shaker doors and painted kitchens.
Best for Painted kitchens, vanity units, anything colour-matched to a wall
A mirror-sheen face that throws light back into the room. Makes a small or north-facing kitchen feel considerably bigger.
Best for Compact kitchens, media walls, contemporary apartments
A real wood face on a stable board core. You get genuine grain — and it can be matched across a run so the pattern flows.
Best for Media walls, built-in studies, feature panelling
Oak, meranti or ash worked as solid stock. The heaviest, longest-lived option, and the only one that can be sanded and refinished decades later.
Best for Doors, staircases, heirloom furniture, statement kitchens
Granite, quartz and Caesarstone templated off the fitted carcasses, or a solid butcher-block top if you want warmth underhand.
Best for Kitchen and scullery runs, islands, vanity counters
Swatches here are indicative of tone and sheen only. Ask us to bring the real board and worktop samples to your measure — colour on a screen is never colour in your kitchen.
Ask for samplesThe thing people dread is the quote that grows once the old units come out. Ours doesn't. Here's exactly what a kitchen price covers — and the two things it deliberately doesn't.
Moisture-resistant board carcasses with edged shelving, and door fronts in the style and finish you've chosen.
Granite, quartz, Caesarstone or solid butcher-block — templated off the fitted carcasses so the fit is exact, with sink and hob cut-outs.
Soft-close hinges and drawer runners as standard, plus handles, corner solutions, waste bins and internal drawer organisers.
Built-in oven towers, extractor housings, integrated fridge and dishwasher surrounds, all sized to your actual appliances.
The old kitchen comes out and goes away. No skip on your pavement for a fortnight, no rubble left behind.
Glass, tile or matching board splashbacks, plinths, cornices and end panels — the details that decide whether it looks fitted or dropped in.
We don't publish rates, because no two kitchens are the same size, shape or finish. You get one fixed written price after a free measure — and it doesn't move unless you change the brief.
Free on-site measure, a 3D design and one fixed written quote. No deposit until you've approved the design.