Bespoke kitchens for architects and interior designers — drawn to your scheme, handmade in our Suffolk workshop and installed to a furniture standard across London, the Home Counties and East Anglia.
Bespoke Kitchens for Architects & Interior Designers
Drawn to your scheme, made in our Suffolk workshop, installed to a furniture standard across London and the Home Counties.
Discuss a kitchen projectFor architects & designersThe kitchen maker behind the scheme
For an architect or interior designer, the kitchen is the room a client scrutinises most closely, and the one where a supplier’s shortcut shows first. Reeve & Co is the workshop practices bring in when a bespoke kitchen has to be built exactly to the drawing, coordinated with the wider scheme, and installed without drama.
We design, draw, make and install under one roof, all from our Suffolk workshop. The practice that specifies us deals with one team, one set of production drawings and one point of responsibility, from survey to the final adjustment on site. Nothing is sub-let to a third-party factory or fitting crew, so nothing is lost between the people who draw your kitchen, the people who make it and the people who fit it.
Built to your drawing
Made to your specification, not a showroom’s system
Most bespoke kitchen brands work within a proprietary cabinet system: fixed carcase sizes, house door styles, a set list of finishes. Because we start from raw timber and a blank drawing board, we build to your specification: your door profile, your reveals and shadow gaps, your handle, your worktop junction, your appliance schedule. If the design calls for a 19mm scribe against an out-of-square wall or a run of drawers set to an unusual module, we make it that way.
This matters most where the kitchen meets the rest of the joinery. Panelling that continues past the kitchen, a boot room or utility in the same hand-painted finish, a bank of full-height cabinetry that reads as architecture rather than furniture: we detail and make it all together, so the finished room is coherent rather than assembled from different suppliers.
Resolved before manufacture
Resolved on paper before anything is cut
We work in 2D and 3D CAD throughout. Once the design is agreed we issue full setting-out and production drawings for your approval, coordinated with M&E, structure, ventilation and worktop templating. Timber, paint and hardware samples are signed off before manufacture, and appliance and tap specifications are checked against real cut-outs and service positions, not assumed.
The expensive problems on a kitchen are almost always the ones found late: an extractor run that fouls a cabinet, a stone upstand that will not return, a tolerance nobody agreed. Resolving these in the drawing stage is how we protect both your programme and your client relationship.
A bespoke kitchen is a coordination exercise as much as a joinery one. We work alongside your chosen stone or composite supplier for templating and fitting sequence; cut and service cabinetry for the client’s specified appliances; and wire in concealed lighting, sockets and task lighting during the build so no cable or driver is ever on show. Where you specify a particular ironmongery house — solid brass, unlacquered, patinated to suit — we source and fit to match.
How it works
How we work with your practice
Brief & survey
We review your drawings, visit site and survey accurately, flagging anything that affects how the kitchen should be detailed or sequenced.
Production drawings
Full CAD setting-out for your approval, coordinated with the other trades, with samples for timber, finish and hardware.
Manufacture
Made by our own cabinet makers in our Suffolk workshop, in fine timbers and hand-applied finishes, to furniture standard.
Installation
Fitted by our own team, scribed to the building, coordinated with worktop and appliance installers, snagged and handed over clean.
Aftercare
We stand behind the work and remain available to you and your client — a maker you can specify again with confidence.
One responsibility
One team, one set of production drawings and one point of responsibility, from survey to the final adjustment on site.
Specification
Materials and finishes
Specification is where a kitchen succeeds or disappoints, so we treat material selection as part of the design. We work in fine hardwoods and veneers — oak, walnut, tulipwood, sycamore and others — selected and matched for grain across a run so cabinetry reads as one considered piece. Painted kitchens are hand-finished in our own spray booth, in the colour and sheen you specify, with the depth and evenness a furniture-grade finish requires. Where the scheme calls for it we bring in stone, glass, mirror, leather and metalwork, and specify soft-close runners, concealed hinges and solid brass ironmongery to suit.
Period, listed and contemporary interiors
Much of our work is in period and listed homes, where a new kitchen must answer the original fabric: proportions respected, mouldings matched, timbers chosen to age alongside what is already there. We are equally at home in a contemporary new-build, where the discipline is restraint: clean lines, flush detailing and a flawless painted or timber finish. In listed settings we can prepare drawings to support a listed-building consent application and detail sympathetically to the period of the house.
Where we work
We are based in Suffolk and install throughout Prime Central and West London, including Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Notting Hill, Holland Park, Mayfair, Hampstead and St John’s Wood, and across the Home Counties, including Surrey, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, as well as throughout East Anglia. Wherever the project is, it is surveyed, made in Suffolk and installed by our own team. Explore our bespoke kitchens and our wider joinery for architects and interior designers.
FAQs
Questions architects and designers ask
Do you build to our drawings, or design the kitchen yourselves?
Both. We work as the maker behind your scheme, turning your design intent into production drawings and a finished, installed kitchen; and where a client comes to us directly we design in-house. On architect-led projects you keep design control, and we resolve the buildability and make it faultlessly.
Can you match the kitchen to the rest of the joinery in the scheme?
Yes, and it is one of the main reasons practices use us. Because we make kitchens, panelling, utilities, wardrobes and fitted furniture in the same workshop, in the same timbers and finishes, everything reads as one coherent interior rather than a set of separate supplier packages.
Will you coordinate with our worktop and appliance suppliers?
Always. We coordinate templating and fitting sequence with your stone or composite supplier, service cabinetry for the client’s specified appliances, and agree the site programme so worktops, splashbacks and appliances land in the right order.
Do you work in listed and period buildings?
Frequently. We match mouldings and proportions to the original fabric, choose timbers that age well alongside existing joinery, and can provide drawings to support listed-building consent where it is required.
What is your typical lead time?
It depends on the size and specification of the kitchen, but we give a clear programme up front and work to your build sequence. We would rather agree a realistic timeline than promise one we cannot protect.
Which areas do you cover?
We are based in Suffolk and work across London, the Home Counties and East Anglia, with selected projects further afield. Installation is by our own team wherever the project is.
Start a project
Send us your drawings and programme and we will come back with a considered view and a clear next step. Call 01449 710500, email sales@reeveandco.com, or message us on WhatsApp.
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