A young family in Penarth needed their tired kitchen renewed and opened up — without living through the disruption. So we scheduled the whole thing around their holiday: wall out, kitchen in, herringbone floor down. They left one kitchen and came home to another.
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The old kitchen had done its years of service: dated worktops, a closed-off layout, and a wall standing between the kitchen and the space the family actually needed. The brief was a full renewal — wall removed for open-plan living, fresh white shaker cabinetry, new flooring throughout.
The catch: with young children in the house, a drawn-out project wasn't an option. So we planned the entire job around the family's holiday — everything scheduled, ordered and sequenced before they left.
With the family away, the clock started. Out came the old kitchen, the wall, and the floor tiles. We handled the first and second fix ourselves — moving the electrics and plumbing to suit the new layout — then levelled the floor ready for the new finish. No waiting between trades, no days lost.
The kitchen itself went in over four days — white shaker cabinetry, marble-effect worktops, glass splashback, appliances plumbed and wired. Two more days built the surrounding cabinetry, and the final two laid herringbone flooring through the kitchen and hallway to tie the newly opened space together.
Rather than leave the american fridge-freezer standing alone, we built fitted cabinetry around it — topped with a made-to-measure wine rack that turns the dead space above into storage with a bit of personality.
It's the kind of touch people assume belongs to a much bigger budget. It doesn't — it just takes measuring properly and caring about the details.
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