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Bespoke Kitchens, Made for Your Room

Some rooms and some briefs need more than a standard range can give. That is what our bespoke kitchens are for: walk-in pantries, curved islands, boot rooms, hidden doors and furniture made to the millimetre by our own workshop. Essex Home Kitchens designs, supplies and installs bespoke kitchens across Essex, and we manage every trade under one contract, from the structural work to the final coat of paint.

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10 years

Installation guarantee on every kitchen

£5m

Public liability insurance

NAPIT

Registered Electricians

Essex, since 2012

Established company, local teams

When it makes sense

When a bespoke kitchen makes sense

Fluted oak cabinetry with a hidden door opening into a utility room

Bespoke is for when nothing standard will do. It suits:

01Awkward rooms, with sloping ceilings, odd angles, chimney breasts or alcoves
02Large open-plan spaces, where a kitchen has to work alongside dining and living areas
03Unusual briefs, from a walk-in pantry to a hidden utility door

Every kitchen we build is designed from scratch for the room it goes in. Our other styles, from Shaker to handleless, are a starting point for that conversation, not a catalogue. Bespoke simply takes the idea all the way.

Our work

What we have built

Bespoke dark kitchen with marble waterfall island and brass handles

Two recent projects show what bespoke fitted kitchens can do:

Project	What made it bespoke
Open-plan extension kitchen, Shenfield	A curved island, a walk-in pantry and underfloor heating
Bespoke kitchen, Hutton	Fluted oak cabinetry, a hidden utility door and brass detailing

Both were designed, supplied and fully installed by Essex Home, including the building work.

Materials

Materials and finishes

Bespoke dark kitchen with oak-topped island and leather bar stools, Hutton

The short answer is anything you can describe: timber, metal, stone and glass. In practice, that might mean fluted oak fronts, a brass-edged shelf, a stone-topped pantry counter or a glazed larder. Colour is just as open. Painted finishes can be matched to anything you bring us, and natural timber can be left to show its grain.

Details

Worktops and details

Bespoke kitchens often mix worktop materials, for example quartz on the main run and solid timber on an island or breakfast bar. We offer quartz, granite, Dekton, solid timber and Corian, all templated by laser after the cabinets are in and fitted by our own stone team. A curved island needs a worktop that follows the curve exactly, which is why the templating waits until the cabinets are in place. See our kitchen worktops guide for the differences between materials.

Handles and hardware are chosen to suit the scheme. Brass detailing, as on our Hutton kitchen, pairs well with oak. Push-to-open doors suit a hidden door or a flush pantry wall.

Planning

Layouts and planning

Bespoke kitchens are often part of a bigger change to the house. We handle structural alterations ourselves, including removing walls, forming openings and installing steels with engineer calculations and building control sign-off. Islands are planned from the floor up, with electrics, extraction and floor loads worked out before a single cabinet is ordered.

Cost

Bespoke kitchen cost

Complete kitchen projects with Essex Home typically range from £18,000 to £50,000 and above. Bespoke projects sit wherever your room, your materials and the building work take them, and every element appears in one fixed, itemized quotation. If it is not on the quotation, you will not be asked to pay for it.

Start with a few photos. Send pictures of your room on WhatsApp to 07496 559464 and tell us what you are hoping to achieve. A designer will reply, not a bot.

Our work

One recent project, start to finish

A family home in Brentwood: a load-bearing wall removed, a new quartz island and a full rewire, completed in three weeks on site by our own team. See the full project.

Handleless kitchen

Brentwood

White matt handleless, quartz island, structural opening to dining room

Handleless

★★★★★

"Everything was handled by Essex Home. The electrician, the plasterer and the tiler all turned up when we were told they would, and Dan managed it all. We never had to chase anyone."

Sarah & Mark T.

Handleless kitchen, Brentwood

Questions

Bespoke kitchen FAQs

Are bespoke kitchens worth it?

For awkward rooms, large open-plan spaces and unusual briefs, a bespoke design can use every millimetre in a way a standard range cannot. And if we are not right for your project, we will tell you.

What can be made bespoke?

Walk-in pantries, curved islands, boot rooms, hidden doors and furniture made to the millimetre, in timber, metal, stone and glass.

Do you make the furniture yourselves?

Bespoke furniture is made to the millimetre by our own workshop, and our own time-served fitters install it.

How do I get a price?

Complete kitchen projects with Essex Home typically range from £18,000 to £50,000 and above.

Book a free home design consultation. We measure, design in 3D and give you a fixed, itemized quotation, with no obligation.

Other styles

Explore our other kitchen styles

Clean and consideredModern kitchensOpen-plan extensions, new builds, apartments The Essex favouriteShaker kitchensPeriod homes, 1930s semis, family kitchens UninterruptedHandleless kitchensContemporary extensions, kitchen-diners, minimal interiors Proper joineryTraditional kitchensDetached family homes, farmhouses, listed properties

Get a Quote

Talk to a designer about bespoke kitchens

Tell us about your room and your ideas, and we will arrange a home visit, measure up and prepare a design and quotation for bespoke kitchens that fit it exactly. Call 01268 264240 or get your free design & quotation online.

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