Kitchen refit in a Redland semi
A dark kitchen with a smoked oak island, built after taking out the wall between the old kitchen and the back reception room.
Area
Redland
Time on site
7 weeks
Cost
£52,400
Finished
2026
What we did
House
1890s semi-detached house
Service
Kitchens
Site lead
Marek Nowak
Removed the wall between the kitchen and the back reception room and fitted a steel beam
Widened the old window opening for steel-framed glass doors
Made the cabinets in our workshop and painted them green-black
Smoked oak island with a stone top
Limestone floor over underfloor heating
Rewired the ground floor
The kitchen in this house was a narrow room at the back, with a separate reception room beside it that the family used for storage. The brief was one room where the children could do homework while dinner was cooking.
We took out the dividing wall in week one and put in a 4.2 metre steel, then widened the window opening at the end for a pair of steel-framed doors. The cabinets were made in our workshop in St Philips and sprayed on site. The island is oak, fumed to darken it, with a honed limestone top that matches the floor.
We were without a kitchen for five weeks, a week less than planned. The one thing I’d change is the extractor, which is louder than we expected, but that was our choice of unit.
Clare T., Redland
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