GS Renovation designs and builds kitchens across Clerkenwell, fitting them into the loft-style warehouse conversions and new-build apartments that fill this EC1 pocket of Islington. With over 30 years of experience, we handle the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any steel beam knock-through as one project, so your kitchen is delivered by a single accountable team.
Open-plan kitchen-diners in Clerkenwell conversions
The kitchen many Clerkenwell owners want is open, sociable and bright, which in a converted workshop often means removing an internal wall to link the cooking and living space. Where that wall carries load, we install a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control, with a party wall notice served where the wall is shared with the neighbouring EC1 unit. The structure and the new kitchen are built together.
Warehouse conversions bring their own quirks: exposed brick, high ceilings, big industrial windows and services that run in awkward places. We plan the layout, extraction and lighting around those features rather than fighting them, and we work within the building-management rules on noise and access that Islington leaseholders sign up to, so the disruption to neighbours stays minimal throughout the fit.
Bespoke kitchens for Clerkenwell apartments
New-build apartments near the Angel and Old Street have crisper, more regular rooms than the conversions, and here made-to-measure cabinetry earns its place by using every centimetre. We fit handleless contemporary ranges or in-frame designs, top them with quartz, granite or composite worktops and integrate the appliances so the kitchen reads as one clean run rather than a set of separate units.
Behind the finish, the services do the real work. We reroute plumbing and add the circuits an integrated kitchen needs, certifying the notifiable electrical work under building regulations, then handle the tiling and lighting in-house. In a leasehold EC1 flat we confirm any freeholder approvals for altering services first, and we protect the communal stairs and lifts while materials come in and the old kitchen goes out.
- Sink, tap and filter installation with full leak testing
- Boiler relocation coordinated with a registered heating engineer
- Pantry, larder and utility room integration
- Bespoke kitchen design and 3D layout planning
- Quartz, granite and marble worktops templated and fitted
Trusted Kitchen Renovation in Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell owners choose GS Renovation because one team handles the whole kitchen, including any steel beam knock-through, the services and the finish, inside the constraints of an EC1 conversion or leasehold flat. You get transparent pricing, certified electrics, tidy working in an occupied home and a result built to last, backed by 30+ years across Islington.
- Materials priced at options, so you choose the finish
- One point of contact on the phone, not a call centre
- Photographs kept at each stage for your records
- Second fix carpentry and decorating finished by the same team
- Founder-led team with 30+ years of hands-on experience
- Worktops templated after installation for a precise fit