Kitchen & Bathroom Interior Design in London

A kitchen succeeds or fails on its plan, long before anyone chooses a door finish. We start with how the room is really used — how many people cook at once, where the food, the bins and the recycling go, how the kitchen relates to eating and to the rest of the home — and design the layout around that. The relationships between sink, hob, fridge and preparation space, the flow of movement, and the balance of worktop and storage are all resolved first. In a London home this often means designing around a chimney breast, a return wall, a side-return extension or an awkward proportion, so the plan works with the room rather than against it.

The pieces of a kitchen are usually chosen separately and it shows — cabinetry from one supplier, a worktop picked in a hurry, appliances that do not quite suit the layout. We specify them together so they agree: cabinetry proportioned to the room and to your storage needs, worktops chosen for how they look and how they will really be used, and appliances selected and positioned as part of the design rather than squeezed in afterwards. We coordinate the cabinetmakers and suppliers who fabricate and install the units, and align their work with the plumbing, electrics and ventilation, so the finished kitchen is integrated rather than assembled.

A kitchen needs light for two different jobs — bright, shadow-free task lighting where you prepare and cook, and softer, layered light for when the room becomes a place to eat and sit. We design a proper lighting scheme for both, set out before the ceiling and cabinetry are fixed. The finishes then give the room its character: the palette of cabinetry, worktop, splashback, flooring and metalwork, chosen to sit together and to relate to the adjoining spaces, since in most London homes the kitchen is now open to living and dining areas. Handled as one, these decisions make a kitchen feel considered rather than catalogue-bought.

Many London kitchens are created as part of a larger project — a rear or side-return extension, a knock-through, or a whole-house refurbishment — and the interior design works best when it is developed alongside that building work, not squeezed in at the end. Positioning the kitchen, planning its services and setting out its lighting all need to happen while the structure is still being designed, which is why this service coordinates closely with our kitchen extension architecture work. Where the kitchen also involves substantial built-in joinery beyond the cabinetry — a run of larder units, banquette seating or fitted storage into the wider room — that fitted layer is designed and detailed through our interior-architecture service, so everything is properly coordinated.

We design bathrooms, en-suites, shower rooms and wet rooms with the same discipline we bring to kitchens. The layout is resolved first — where the WC, basin, bath and shower sit within the space and its plumbing, how the door swings, and how a compact London en-suite can still feel generous — before a single tile is chosen. We then specify sanitaryware, brassware, tiling and surfaces, heating and ventilation, and a lighting scheme that works for both grooming and relaxing, coordinating the waterproofing, falls and drainage a wet room depends on. In period homes and leasehold flats we plan around existing soil stacks, limited ventilation routes and the consents that moving bathrooms or wet areas can trigger, so the finished room is watertight, comfortable and coherent with the rest of the home.