How Much Does a Bespoke Kitchen Cost in the UK?

Most kitchen companies make it difficult to find out what a kitchen costs before you speak to them. We take a different approach. Our prices are on our website, and this guide brings them together with everything else that affects the cost of a bespoke kitchen in the UK.

The short answer is that our costed example kitchens run from £11,808 to £42,479 for hand-painted cabinetry alone, with VAT included. Worktops, appliances and installation are priced separately with us, so check carefully what other companies include when you compare. The rest of this guide explains what moves the number up and down, so you can estimate the cost of your own kitchen to within a sensible margin before you speak to anyone.

Kitchen	Cabinetry price
Country Cottage	£11,808
New Build	£15,988
Town House	£27,692
Country House	£29,207
Manor House	£42,479

Every figure includes hand-painting and VAT. Click any of the kitchens to see its full itemised breakdown, and our kitchen cost calculator, embedded just below, will give you an estimate for your own room in under a minute. All you need is your running metres of cabinetry (the total length of the runs, measured along your walls) and a rough idea of how much cabinetry you want in the room.

When you compare quotes from different companies, always check what the number covers. A “kitchen price” can mean cabinetry alone or the whole project, and the difference can be tens of thousands of pounds.

Try the cost calculator

Measure along each wall that will carry cabinets. For an island, add its length once for each side that has cupboards, so twice if both sides are cabinetry and once if the other side is seating. Put the total in and the calculator will price it at three levels of kitchen, from a simple kitchen at £1,180 a metre to the full works at £2,372, painting and VAT included. The levels aren’t fixed ranges; everything we make is bespoke.

What other companies publish about their prices

Prices are hard to find on most luxury kitchen websites, and several of the best-known names publish none at all. For one of them, reported minimums sit around £35,000, and you’ll only learn the real figure by requesting a quote. That usually means booking a consultation and going some way into the process before anyone tells you a number. Among those who do publish, Plain English state their kitchens start at £70,000 and a finished project is often around £100,000. Neptune offer an online estimator, with cabinetry starting around £12,000 for a small kitchen. deVOL go furthest and publish individual cabinet prices for their Shaker range. The named figures come from the companies’ own websites, checked in August 2026.

Because deVOL’s catalogue is public, we compared our cabinet prices against it, size for size. Our door cupboards came in around 30% lower, open base units were around half the price, and sink cupboards were roughly a third less. Drawer cabinets were the closest match with ours mostly a little lower, because dovetailed solid oak drawer boxes cost what they cost whoever makes them. Here are two like-for-like examples you can check yourself, full-depth cabinets, both prices including VAT as of August 2026. A 600mm single-door base cabinet is £820 in their catalogue and £594 in ours, and a 600mm three-drawer cabinet is £1,370 there and £1,105 here.

The lower price does not come from a lesser build. Our cabinetry is hardwood all the way through, and every cabinet is a complete box with its top panel fitted. Many kitchen makers leave the top panel out, and an open carcass loses rigidity and can twist out of shape over the years; a complete one stays square for decades. When you compare quotes, it’s worth asking exactly how each company’s carcasses are made – the answers may surprise you. Every cabinet of ours carries a lifetime guarantee when we supply and install, and we keep our costs down elsewhere, never in the construction.

We think you should be able to price a kitchen properly before you ever speak to us. That’s why the calculator sits on our front page, and why our DIY shop shows what every cabinet costs at every standard size. The shop exists for clients who want to fit a kitchen themselves, with cabinetry made to order and built to exactly the same standard as everything we make, and for everyone else it’s a straightforward way to see our pricing in detail. Our full kitchens are fully bespoke; the standard sizings are simply the starting point. If our kitchens aren’t right for your budget, you’ll know in five minutes without giving anyone your email address. And if they are, you’ll arrive at your design consultation already knowing the numbers add up.

What affects the cost of a bespoke kitchen?

Four things decide most of the cost of a bespoke kitchen.

How many metres of cabinetry. The single biggest factor. Measure along every wall that will carry cabinets. For an island, count each side that has cupboards, so twice if both sides are cabinetry and once if the other side is seating. That total is the number our calculator works from.

How much of it is drawers. Drawers cost close to double what cupboards do. A full-depth 600mm two-door base cupboard of ours is £625 hand-painted; a three-drawer cabinet of the same width is £1,105. The difference is in the materials and joinery. Each drawer is an individually made dovetail-jointed solid oak box on its own runners, which makes a three-drawer cabinet really three boxes built inside a fourth.

The statement pieces. A full-height larder is the most cabinetry-dense thing in any kitchen, and ours run from around £1,600 to £3,000 depending on size and configuration. Glazed cabinets carry a premium over solid doors – though a modest one of roughly £70 on a 600mm wall cupboard.

How much of the room you fill, and how high you go. A kitchen of base cupboards and a few drawers, with nothing on the walls, is the least expensive way to furnish a room, and with open shelves above it still feels complete. Add wall cupboards and appliance housings and the price steps up. Go full height with larders, tall cabinetry and high cupboards running to the ceiling and it steps up again, because every extra tier puts more cabinetry on the same wall. Same construction, same paint and same guarantee at every level – the price simply follows how much of the room you fill.

Where the money goes

Two kitchens can look almost identical in photographs and be built completely differently underneath. In a handmade kitchen the money goes into the parts you can’t see at a glance, which is worth understanding before you compare quotes. Every detail of ours is on our construction page.

In short, our cabinetry is hardwood. Surprisingly few kitchen companies at any price level can say that, because veneered MDF and chipboard carcasses are common even at the luxury end. Our doors are in-frame, set flush inside a solid timber frame rather than hung on the front of the box, and they swing on solid brass hinges just as joiners built them a century ago. Our drawer boxes are dovetailed solid oak. The interiors are our signature lacquered Paulownia, a light and very stable hardwood rather than melamine-faced chipboard. And every kitchen is painted by hand in a multi-coat system, in any colour you choose, that can be touched up rather than replaced. It’s why we guarantee our cabinetry for life when we supply and install – this is a kitchen built to be repainted and repaired over the decades, not replaced.

There is a limit to what an article can show, because looks are only half of what a kitchen is. The other half is how it feels, and in daily use that matters just as much – the weight of a solid timber door as it closes into its frame, the slide of a solid oak drawer on Grass Dynapro runners that are guaranteed for a lifetime. A cheap kitchen feels like a cheap kitchen the moment you touch it, and quality is just as quick to make itself known. People often tell us that one visit to our showroom told them more than everything they’d read and every photograph they’d seen. If you’re weighing up quotes, come and open a few drawers.

How to bring the price down without losing the look

This is where fully bespoke works in your favour, because nothing is fixed and the kitchen can be shaped around your budget. Some ways to do it, using our own prices:

Choose doors where you don’t need drawers. Keep the drawer bank where you cook, because that’s where you use them constantly, and use door cupboards with adjustable shelves elsewhere. Swapping one 600mm drawer stack for a two-door cupboard saves around £500 with nothing lost in storage volume.

Consider open shelving up top. Wall cupboards are lovely, but they’re not compulsory. Base cupboards fill out a room beautifully on their own, and a run of open shelves above costs a fraction of cabinetry. It’s a classic English kitchen look, and one of the biggest single savings available.

One larder instead of a run of wall cupboards. A larder isn’t cheap in itself, but a single well-designed larder cupboard can do the work of a whole run of wall cupboards for a similar or lower price, and it usually looks better too.

Glaze one cabinet, not four. One glazed cabinet does more for a room than a whole run of them. The saving is modest, roughly £70 a cabinet, but solid doors also hide everyday clutter.

Use the awkward spaces. Bespoke cabinetry is made to your walls, so alcoves, corners and the space under a low beam become useful storage instead of dead space. Every metre of storage gained from an awkward corner is a metre you don’t have to buy elsewhere in the room.

One thing none of these change is the construction. Every kitchen we make is built the same way whatever the budget, with the same dovetails, the same solid timber and the same hand-painting. If the choice is between a smaller kitchen built properly and a bigger one built down to a price, go smaller, because a kitchen you never have to replace costs less in the long run. And because our cabinetry is freestanding, a kitchen doesn’t have to be finished in one go – you can start with the pieces you need most and add to it in phases as budget allows, with each new piece built to match.

Where we sit in the market

Researching this article meant reading what every major bespoke kitchen company publishes about its prices, and it confirmed what we believed, that for what we provide we are very competitive. Here is why.

Part of it is what the cabinets are made of. Everything we build is hardwood, and where engineering makes it last longer, we engineer it. The carcass panels are three solid layers of Paulownia with the grain alternated, which stays flat for decades where a single board would move. The frames and doors are solid beech, the door panels poplar, the drawer boxes oak. Many kitchens pair a solid frame with an MDF panel – ours are hardwood in the panels too.

We keep costs down everywhere that doesn’t touch the kitchen itself. We run from a single showroom, generate power with solar panels, use any timber waste as fuel for out heating, and try to avoid every unnecessary cost so we don’t have to pass one on to you. The aim is to give you as much kitchen as we possibly can for the money, without ever being cheap about how it’s made.

Pricing your own kitchen

You don’t need to book anything to get a good idea of what a kitchen from us might cost. Measure your running metres, try the cost calculator, and browse our DIY shop to see what each cabinet costs at every standard size. Then, when the numbers feel right, book a design consultation and we’ll turn them into a kitchen designed precisely for your home.

We don’t charge a design fee on top of your kitchen. Design work begins with a £750 deposit, credited in full against your cabinetry when you go ahead; the deposit is non-refundable, which is how we keep our design time for serious projects.

If there’s a pricing question this guide hasn’t answered, ask us. We’re happy to talk through the numbers before you commit to anything.

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