It begins with your dream of a home featuring bespoke hand-crafted in-frame furniture so exquisite, it delights you every time you glance at it. Your living spaces should reflect your personal lifestyle as being beautiful, functional and most of all, a unique expression of who you are and how you choose to live your life.
What makes a kitchen truly bespoke?
A bespoke kitchen is more than just custom cabinetry or a few special storage features — it’s a luxury kitchen conceived from a blank canvas, completely tailored around your home, your lifestyle, and your design vision. Unlike off-the-shelf or fitted kitchens, a truly bespoke kitchen:
- Adapts to your space — nothing is forced to fit. Uneven walls, low ceilings, sloped roofs, columns or beams — these become design opportunities rather than obstacles.
- Reflects your daily habits — drawer dimensions, storage space, appliance placement, heights and workflows are all optimised around how you cook, prep, entertain, and live.
- Allows creative freedom — from unusual materials, bespoke finishes, integrated architectural details (arched reveals, feature panels, bespoke moldings) to completely unique layout ideas.
- Demands craftsmanship & quality — joinery methods, careful material selection, hand-finishing (painting, grain matching, edge detailing) combine to deliver longevity, precision, and refinement.
Made-to-order kitchen cabinetry
The Novelle bespoke furniture collection is designed to inspire and excite you and when combined with our specially sourced timbers and stunning paint finishes, you will have a kitchen that is truly original, comprising of premium quality materials and craftsmanship.
Premium grade paint
In addition to White Oak, all Novelle bespoke kitchens are offered in a carefully curated choice of thirty-two exclusive paint colours. We can even match your paint finish to any RAL colour with our Colour Match Service, if you have a very specific hue in mind.
The finer details
Handles provide the finishing touch to your bespoke kitchen. The diverse Novelle offering includes materials and finishes which will complement all styles, from classic to contemporary. Bar and T-bar handles, Bow and D handles, cups, knobs and discreet trim handles.
Bespoke kitchen inspiration
Our friendly and experienced team of expert kitchen designers at our kitchen showrooms is always on hand to share advice and inspiration. If you’d like a sneak peek of our bespoke kitchen collections before your visit, have a look at our brochures — ideal place to gather inspiration and ideas for your project.
What are the benefits of having a bespoke kitchen?
1. Efficiency & Usability
Because every detail is tailored, you can eliminate the usual “dead corners,” awkward filler panels or wasted space. Storage becomes more intelligent — for instance, you might have a drawer sized exactly for your mixer, or a custom spice drawer instead of a generic pull-out.
2. Architectural Harmony
A bespoke fitted kitchen can feel as though it was built with the house — integrating ceiling heights, working around structural elements, or referencing period features — giving a cohesive, luxury and timeless feel
3. Longevity & Refinishability
High-quality materials and joinery make bespoke kitchens more durable than mass-produced alternatives. Many bespoke kitchens are built so that doors and paintwork can be refreshed or adjusted in future, extending the life of the kitchen.
4. Increased Home Value & Appeal
Because a well-executed, luxury bespoke kitchen optimises space and finishes, it often increases the desirability and perceived value of the home.
5. Psychological & Emotional Satisfaction
One of the subtler benefits: you end up with a bespoke kitchen design no one else has. It becomes more than just a room — it embodies your taste, personality, and daily rhythm.
Your Bespoke Kitchen Journey
Here’s how the process of creating your bespoke kitchen would generally unfold:
- Visit your home, take structural measurements and photographs
- Discuss your lifestyle, cooking habits, storage needs, mood boards, and inspirations
- Establish a budget range
- We create schematic layouts and mood boards
- You review and give feedback — we iterate until satisfactory
- 3D renders or scaled visuals help you visualise final look
- Choose door types, finishes, hardware, worktops, lighting, backsplashes
- Confirm internal fittings, cabinets internals, drawer layouts, appliance layouts
- Final technical drawings and joinery schedules
- Handcrafting in workshop, finishing, paintwork, quality checks
- Pre-assembly tests where required
- Site preparation (services, walls, floors)
- Delivery and assembly of cabinetry
- Final adjustments, alignment, touch-ups, commissioning
- Post-install inspection and client walkthrough
- Maintenance advice, paint touch-up kits, access to replacement parts
FAQs
For a fully bespoke kitchen, expect anywhere between 12 to 24 weeks from initial design to final handover — sometimes more depending on complexity and current workshop workloads.
Costs depend heavily on size, material, appliances, finish level. Some bespoke kitchens start in the £20,000–£30,000 range; luxury and high-end installations can exceed £50,000 or more.
Sometimes. Depending on your home, services, and tolerances, it may be possible to phase or split the work (e.g. complete cabinetry first, then install appliances later), but it often adds cost and complexity.
Yes — almost every detail will be yours to decide (with guidance). That means more decisions than buying off-the-shelf, but also more control and fewer compromises.
Good bespoke kitchens are designed for maintenance. Painted finishes can be touched up or re-sprayed. Hardware can be replaced. Avoid materials known to be fragile or high-maintenance in your climate (e.g. unstable veneers in very humid or dry environments).
Absolutely, small or awkward spaces benefit greatly from bespoke design, which can make sure you take full advantage of every centimetre.
