GS Renovation designs and builds kitchens across Battersea, from the terraces near Clapham Common to the riverside streets by the Thames. With 30+ years in SW11, we handle the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any structural knock-through as a single project, tailored to the tight rear plots of the area's Victorian and Edwardian homes.
Open-plan kitchen-diners in Battersea homes
The most requested Battersea kitchen opens the rear of the terrace, knocking the kitchen through to the middle reception or out into the side return to create a sociable kitchen-diner. That dividing wall is usually load-bearing, so we install a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control before the new kitchen goes anywhere near it. Getting the structure right first is what makes the finished space work.
With the opening formed, we fit the units, run the plumbing and electrics, and lay out the room to make the most of a typically narrow SW11 footprint. Rooflights over an infilled side return flood the space with daylight, and a well-placed island gives the seating and prep space these terraces normally lack. The kitchen and the steelwork are delivered together, by one team.
Bespoke fitted kitchens for SW11 terraces
Battersea's period homes come with chimney breasts, alcoves and slightly irregular walls that rarely suit off-the-shelf units. We plan bespoke and fitted kitchens around these quirks, using made-to-measure cabinetry to square up awkward corners and turn recesses into useful storage rather than wasted space. Whether you want a handleless contemporary look or a classic Shaker style, we build to suit the character of the house.
Worktops are chosen to match, in quartz, granite or composite, with integrated appliances, considered task and ambient lighting, tiling and any replumbing all handled in-house. On the lower-ground kitchens found in some Battersea terraces we plan carefully around head height, ventilation and natural light. The finish is durable and precisely fitted, built for a busy family kitchen rather than a showroom that looks good only in photographs.
How a Victorian house changes the fit
The age of a Battersea house dictates far more of the kitchen than the door style does. Floors are suspended timber over a ventilated void, so waste runs can drop and fall properly, but joists must not be notched where the engineer says they cannot be. Walls are solid brick in lime mortar, so chasing for cables and pipes needs care, and fixings for wall units want resin anchors rather than plastic plugs. Older services often surface once the units come out, and lead supply pipe or rubber sheathed cable is best replaced while the walls are open.
Ceilings are lath and plaster, and lifting one to run new services often ends in replacing it, so we agree that before cabinets are ordered. Nothing in a Victorian rear addition is truly square either, so runs are scribed and packed rather than trusted to a level, which is why the final day of fitting is slower than it looks on paper. Extraction is designed to satisfy Part F, not just to look tidy.
- Plumbing, electrics and appliance integration
- Old kitchen strip-out, disposal and making good
- Extraction ducted through to outside air
- Bespoke kitchen design and 3D layout planning
- New circuits, sockets and dedicated appliance supplies
The GS Renovation Difference in Battersea
Battersea homeowners choose GS Renovation because one team handles the whole kitchen, including any steel beam or knock-through, the services and the finish. You get bespoke cabinetry built for SW11's period proportions, honest pricing and tidy working in an occupied home, backed by more than 30 years across South West London.
- Second fix carpentry and decorating finished by the same team
- Itemised pricing, so you can see what every stage costs
- Worktops templated after installation for a precise fit
- Aftercare and snagging support once the job is finished
- A temporary sink arranged where the kitchen is out for weeks
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