GS Renovation designs and fits kitchens across Camden Town, working with the tight rear footprints and closet wings typical of NW1's Victorian and Edwardian terraces. With 30+ years locally, we handle the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any structural knock-through as one project, so your new kitchen is planned, not just assembled.
Open-plan kitchen-diners in Camden Town
The most popular kitchen project in Camden Town opens the rear reception into the kitchen to create a single bright kitchen-diner. Because that dividing wall is nearly always load-bearing in these terraces, we fit a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control, and often infill the side return at the same time to gain the width these narrow plots badly need.
With the space opened up, we set out the kitchen to suit how the family actually lives, running units along the closet wing and freeing the middle of the room for a table. We integrate the appliances, run new plumbing and electrics, tile and light the space, and finish it so the join between old reception and new kitchen simply disappears.
Bespoke fitted kitchens for NW1 terraces
Camden Town's period rooms come with chimney breasts, alcoves and tall ceilings, which suit made-to-measure cabinetry far better than off-the-shelf carcasses. We plan the layout around those quirks, using the alcoves for tall storage and keeping the proportions of the room, whether you want a handleless contemporary finish or a classic in-frame Shaker look for a traditional NW1 home.
On worktops we fit quartz, granite or composite to suit the design and the way you cook, templated once the units are in for a precise fit. Everything from the sink and tap plumbing to the socket positions, extraction and under-cabinet lighting is handled by our own team, so the kitchen is delivered complete rather than left waiting on separate trades.
Extraction, waste and water in NW1 kitchens
Three services decide where a Camden Town kitchen can actually go. Extraction has to meet the rates set out in Part F, and in a terrace that means a duct with as few bends as possible running to an outside wall, which is why a hob on an island often needs the duct dropped under the floor rather than taking an easy run through a cupboard. A recirculating hood is a fallback, not an equal alternative.
Waste is the second. The sink and dishwasher have to reach a soil stack or gully with adequate fall, and in these houses the stack is usually fixed to the rear elevation, so moving the sink across the room is a bigger job than it looks. Water is the third. Older lead or narrow supply pipes give poor flow, and if you are adding a boiling water tap or a second bathroom, the incoming main is worth upgrading while the floor is open.
- Wall removal between the kitchen and dining room
- Floor levelling and screeding before the flooring goes down
- Open-plan kitchen-diner conversions with steel support
- Boiler relocation coordinated with a registered heating engineer
- Old kitchen strip-out, disposal and making good
Trusted Kitchen Renovation in Camden Town
Camden Town homeowners choose GS Renovation because one team delivers the whole kitchen, including any steel beam knock-through, the services and the finish. We know how NW1 terraces are laid out, work tidily in an occupied home, and price the job transparently. Over 30 years locally means a kitchen built to fit the house and to last.
- A temporary sink arranged where the kitchen is out for weeks
- Photographs kept at each stage for your records
- A written scope and programme agreed before work starts
- Floors levelled and packed so doors and drawers line up
- Waste cleared as we go, not left piled in the garden
- The kitchen laid out on plan before a single unit is ordered