Bespoke kitchens & wardrobes in Camden.

Camden runs from the Georgian squares of Bloomsbury in the south to the streets around Hampstead Heath in the north, and few London boroughs pack so many types of home into one area. Each one sets different limits on what a kitchen or wardrobe can be.

Bloomsbury, Holborn and Fitzrovia

Bloomsbury was planned as a residential district under the Dukes of Bedford, and squares such as Bedford Square and Bloomsbury Square are still lined with Georgian town houses. The area is shared with universities, offices and the British Museum, and homes here are often flats inside period buildings: tall rooms, original shutters and joinery, and kitchens that have to fit around them. Further south, around Holborn and St Giles, and west into Fitzrovia, homes are mostly flats in mixed-use streets.

Belsize Park, Hampstead and Primrose Hill

Belsize Park is known for its Georgian and Victorian villas and mews houses, including large stucco semi-detached houses built after 1851, and a great many of the larger houses have since been converted into flats. Hampstead has older streets such as Church Row and New End Square, much larger housing built in the 1870s and 1880s, narrow mews, and notable twentieth-century buildings such as the Grade I listed Isokon building. Primrose Hill mixes nineteenth-century streets and squares such as Chalcot Square with pockets of 1960s modernist housing.

Kentish Town, Gospel Oak and West Hampstead

Much of Kentish Town’s mid-nineteenth-century housing survives, so Victorian terraces and the flats carved out of them are a common starting point. In Gospel Oak, the Mansfield Conservation Area holds most of the larger Victorian and Edwardian terraces, while streets such as Oak Village keep their early Victorian cottages. West Hampstead is largely red-brick Victorian and Edwardian terraces and mansion blocks, much of it built after the railway stations opened.

Council estates and new building

Camden also has a significant amount of post-war council housing, some of it now listed: the Alexandra Road Estate, designed by Neave Brown in Camden’s architects department, is Grade II* listed, and the Dunboyne Road Estate in Gospel Oak is Grade II listed. At King’s Cross, the redevelopment of former railway land behind the stations has added new apartment buildings, including flats built inside the listed gasholder frames.

Storage in Camden homes is shaped by the same buildings as the kitchens: chimney breasts and alcoves in period houses, sloping ceilings under the roof, and small bedrooms in converted flats. Fitted furniture is made to fill those spaces exactly.

Alcoves and chimney breasts

Victorian and Georgian bedrooms in Kentish Town, Belsize Park and Hampstead very often have a chimney breast with an alcove on each side. Alcove wardrobes fill those recesses from floor to ceiling, with hanging space, shelves and drawers inside, and fronts that can match the period of the room or keep it plain and modern.

Small bedrooms and sliding doors

Where a bedroom is too narrow for hinged doors to swing open, sliding wardrobes save floor space. Aluminium profiles come in silver, black, champagne or white, and panels can be mirror, tinted glass, wood décors or colours. A mirrored door also makes a small room feel larger.

Lofts, eaves and top-floor flats

Many top-floor flats and loft conversions in Camden have sloping ceilings. Loft and eaves wardrobes are cut to the angle of the roof so that the space under the slope becomes usable storage rather than a dead corner.

Walk-in wardrobes, hallways and understairs

In larger houses, a spare room or a section of a bedroom can become a walk-in wardrobe. In terraced houses and flats, a fitted hallway unit for coats and shoes or a cupboard built into the space under the stairs often makes the biggest difference day to day. All of these are covered on our fitted wardrobes page.

Most of the planning for a Camden installation is about getting furniture into the building and working within its rules. These are the points worth checking early.

Access, stairs and lifts

Many Camden flats are on upper floors of period houses with narrow staircases and no lift. Because every unit is made to measure, we take the route into the home into account when we measure, and size the furniture so it can be carried in and assembled in the room.

Parking and loading

Controlled parking zones cover large areas of Camden, so parking near the property is not something to assume. Camden Council lets residents and businesses book parking bay suspensions online, and asks for bookings at least 17 days before the suspension starts; later bookings can carry a short-notice charge. Check the current rules and charges on the council’s website before the installation date.

Leasehold flats and building rules

If you own a leasehold flat, the lease may require consent from the freeholder or managing agent before works, and many blocks set working hours for noisy jobs. It is worth asking about this when you first plan the project.

Listed buildings and conservation areas

Camden Council lists 40 conservation areas covering about half of the borough, and the borough has many listed buildings, from Georgian houses to post-war estates. Replacing a kitchen or fitting wardrobes inside a home normally does not need planning permission. Conservation area status mainly affects external changes, but if your home is listed, many internal alterations need listed building consent, so check with the council before work starts.

Timing

Allow 1–2 weeks for the measure and design, then typically 4–6 weeks from approved design to finished installation. If you also need a builder, electrician or decorator, it helps to agree the order of work at the start, so the room is ready when your furniture arrives from the workshop.

Working with your builder

We do not do building work, plastering, electrics, gas or decorating. If your project includes an extension or refurbishment, we work alongside your builder and trades, and any gas work must be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer.

The process is the same wherever you are in Camden, and you do not pay anything or commit to anything until you have approved the design and the price.

1. Enquire online. Send us the details through the quote form. We reply within one working day.
2. Free measure. Our London fitter visits your home and measures the room, including walls, ceilings, alcoves and the access route.
3. Free 3D design. We prepare your first 3D design and one fixed, itemised price that includes manufacture, delivery to London and fitting. The measure-and-design stage usually takes 1–2 weeks.
4. Approve. There is no deposit and no obligation until you approve the design and the price.
5. Manufacture and delivery. Your furniture is made in our own workshop in Bulgaria and travels to London by dedicated transport.
6. Installation. The same person who measured the room fits it. It typically takes 4–6 weeks from approved design to finished installation.

As a guide for budgeting, our kitchens cost around £1,000–£1,200 per linear metre. This is not a quote: your fixed price comes with your design. See kitchen prices and our process for more.