GS Renovation designs and fits kitchens across Hampstead, from compact village cottages to the wide Victorian and Edwardian terraces of NW3. With more than 30 years in North London, we take on the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any structural knock-through as one project, so your new kitchen is planned, built and finished by a single team.
Open-plan kitchen-diners in Hampstead
The most popular Hampstead kitchen project opens the rear of a terrace, knocking the kitchen through to the middle reception to make a bright, sociable kitchen-diner facing the garden. That dividing wall is usually load-bearing, so we install a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off under building regulations by Camden building control, then often widen the room by infilling the side return.
Working in the closet-wing kitchens typical of NW3 means planning around a tight and awkward footprint. We set out the units, the plumbing runs and the electrics to make the most of every metre, bring in natural light where we can, and integrate the appliances so the finished room feels generous even where the original Victorian plan was cramped and dark.
Bespoke kitchens for NW3 homes
Hampstead's period houses have alcoves, chimney breasts and tall ceilings that suit made-to-measure cabinetry far better than off-the-shelf units. We plan in-frame or handleless designs to fit the exact proportions of the room, from a classic Shaker kitchen in a village cottage to a sleek contemporary scheme in a refurbished terrace, with quartz, granite or composite worktops chosen to match.
Every element is handled in-house, the cabinetry, the stone, the plumbing, the electrics, the tiling and the lighting. Kitchen and bathroom circuits are notifiable under building regulations, so the electrical work is properly certified. We coordinate the trades tightly to keep the disruption short in a home you are still living in, common on the busy residential streets near the village and the Heath.
How the household uses it afterwards
The kitchens we fit in Hampstead are rarely straight replacements, they change where the household spends its time. A rear kitchen opened into the garden room stops being somewhere one person cooks alone and becomes the room everybody drifts into, which means seating, sockets and lighting planned for homework and laptops as much as for cooking and washing up. Cooking habits change too, because an island that seats people turns preparation into something the household does together rather than out of sight.
That brings knock on effects worth planning for. The dining room often becomes redundant and gets repurposed as a study or a snug. Storage pressure moves, because the space that held coats and boots may now form part of the open room. And noise matters more than it did, since a dishwasher that was tolerable behind a closed door is not tolerable during dinner, so quieter appliances and softer surfaces earn their place. We ask about all of this at design stage, since it drives the layout far more than the choice of door front does.
- Extraction ducted through to outside air
- Floor levelling and screeding before the flooring goes down
- Sink, tap and filter installation with full leak testing
- Plastering, decorating and second fix carpentry
- Wall removal between the kitchen and dining room
Why Choose GS Renovation in Hampstead
Hampstead homeowners choose GS Renovation because one team delivers the whole kitchen, including any steel beam knock-through, the services and the finish. You get made-to-measure cabinetry suited to these period rooms, certified electrics, transparent pricing and tidy working in an occupied home, backed by 30+ years across the terraces and villas of NW3.
- Appliance and extraction routes agreed at design stage
- Photographs kept at each stage for your records
- Straight advice on what is and is not worth spending money on
- Registered in England, Companies House no. 14611254
- Second fix carpentry and decorating finished by the same team
- Suppliers used across every budget, with options priced