What Does Handmade (Bespoke) Really Mean?
Handmade kitchens are becoming increasingly popular, because a handmade kitchen is tailored specifically to suit your individual requirements. Many high street stores and independent companies offer high quality kitchens, but the shapes and sizes of the carcasses and furniture are generally standard. While it may seem simpler to order a ready-made kitchen, it can complicate things instead: you can only buy specific sizes, designs, furniture and appliances, which may leave you disappointed when the final result is not quite what you wanted. Here at Handmade Kitchen Company, we pride ourselves on our luxury handmade kitchens. With a range of different sizes, lengths, colours and materials, your bespoke kitchen ideas are endless.
What Bespoke Really Means at a Glance
A genuinely bespoke kitchen is made to order from scratch, to your dimensions and specification. Choosing a door style, colour and handle from a supplier's range is customisation, not bespoke, however it is described. With a truly bespoke kitchen the carcasses, furniture and fittings are all built to any size, shape or material required, so the kitchen fits the room rather than the room accommodating the kitchen. At Handmade Kitchen Company every kitchen is hand-crafted from raw materials to exact specifications chosen by the client.
What does bespoke really mean?
The word bespoke is often thrown about by kitchen companies, and many are not strictly accurate when they use it. A common misconception is that a bespoke kitchen simply means being able to choose your colours, furniture, fittings and appliances, or having a partially customised design. No level of customisation can properly be called bespoke unless the kitchen is made to order from scratch. A handmade kitchen is much more than colour and furniture choices: it means having something made especially for you. With a handmade kitchen, the carcasses, furniture and fittings can all be made to order in any size, shape or material, to fit any space. Your kitchen is hand-crafted from scratch to suit your individual needs, built from raw materials rather than assembled from a factory-built range. Every order is made to exact specifications, materials, colours, designs and fittings, all chosen by the customer.
What that means for your kitchen
Here at Handmade Kitchen Company, we can craft your kitchen to any style, period theme or design to suit you. Whether you want modern, traditional, period or something more unusual, we can build it with skill and care. With a bespoke kitchen, shapes and sizes are no longer an issue. We will work with you to bring your ideas to life. With an endless choice of width, height, shape, depth, curves, angles, colours and materials, your bespoke kitchen will be crafted to suit your requirements exactly. We use only the highest skilled craftsmen and manufacturers, bringing you the best that bespoke kitchens have to offer throughout Essex. We also cover Hertfordshire and North London.
Bespoke Kitchen FAQs
What does bespoke mean for a kitchen?
It means the kitchen is designed and built from scratch to your dimensions and specification, rather than assembled from pre-made units. The carcasses, doors, drawers and fittings are all made to order, in whatever size, shape and material the room and the client require.
Is a bespoke kitchen the same as a fitted kitchen?
No. A fitted kitchen is made from standard-sized units fitted into your room, usually with filler panels to close the gaps. A bespoke kitchen is built to the room's actual measurements, so awkward walls, alcoves, chimney breasts and ceiling heights are used rather than worked around.
How can you tell if a kitchen is genuinely bespoke?
Ask whether the carcasses are made to order or come in fixed sizes. If you are choosing from a set range of door styles, colours and handles applied to standard units, that is customisation. If the units themselves are built to your measurements from raw materials, that is bespoke.
Is a bespoke kitchen worth the extra cost?
If your room is an awkward shape, or you want storage designed around how you actually cook, it usually is. You gain usable space that standard units lose to fillers and dead corners, and the construction and materials tend to last considerably longer.
Where does Handmade Kitchen Company build bespoke kitchens?
We design, hand-build and hand-paint bespoke kitchens from our workshop in Essex, for clients across Essex, Hertfordshire and North London. For the other side of the comparison, read about the
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are built. If you would like any more information or a free consultation, then please contact us here at Handmade Kitchen Company. You can also visit our showroom, where you can view our latest kitchen builds and gain ideas for your own.
