Kitchen Renovation Marylebone

GS Renovation designs and builds kitchens throughout Marylebone, tailoring each one to the proportions of W1's mansion flats and period townhouses. We handle the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any structural change together, so your new kitchen arrives as one finished project rather than a string of separate trades.

In Marylebone, a kitchen renovation typically costs £18,000 to £60,000 or more from design to fitting (indicative London ranges, MyBuilder and Checkatrade, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Marylebone: we carry the strip-out, services and fit as one contract, with the electrics certified by a registered electrician.

How the job runs

1. Free design visit at your Marylebone home and an itemised quote.
2. Strip-out and any structural work, first-fix plumbing and electrics, plastering.
3. Units fitted and levelled; stone worktops templated and cut off site.
4. Worktops, appliances, tiling and second fix. Electrics certified under Part P by a registered electrician, or notified to building control.

Open-plan kitchen-diners in Marylebone flats

Many Marylebone flats were built with a small, self-contained kitchen tucked away from the reception rooms. Opening it into an adjoining space to create a bright kitchen-diner is a common W1 project, and where the dividing wall is load-bearing we install a steel beam, sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control, to carry the load safely.

Because these are leasehold homes in shared blocks, we handle the practicalities that a house owner never faces. That means the freeholder's licence to alter, coordination with the managing agent over access and noise hours and, where the wall is shared with a neighbour, the party wall notice you serve using the drawings we provide. The result is a sociable, open space delivered without falling foul of the lease.

Housing in Marylebone

The stock in Marylebone runs to roughly 12,620 dwellings, 92% of them flats and 8% houses, built 54% before 1919, 16% between 1919 and 1939 and 29% after 1945. Where most homes are flats, a kitchen in a flat in Marylebone drains to the building's shared soil stack, while a new extract through the outside wall needs the freeholder's licence first.

What a Marylebone kitchen needs from Westminster building control

Westminster's District Surveyors publish a minor works charge for the fit out of a bathroom or kitchen in one property, on either a building notice or full plans. That is a reminder that a Marylebone kitchen can need building control even when no wall moves, usually for a new circuit, new extraction or a drainage change. If the new kitchen takes the old one's place, a notice can work, since Westminster accepts one where the layout is unaffected and the work is not affected by the Fire Safety Order (RRO). Moving the kitchen into the living room, or opening it to the hall, changes the layout and needs full plans.

Building control must hear the start date at least 2 days before work begins, on the form or by email. In a Marylebone block the real start is set by the managing agent's lift booking and the notice given to neighbours, so we fix those first and send the start notice to match. At the other end, Westminster issues the completion certificate only once fees are paid and the electrical and gas certificates are supplied, so a hob connection or induction circuit is certified before the final visit is requested.

Bespoke kitchens for W1 period proportions

The tall ceilings, chimney breasts and alcoves of Marylebone's period flats suit made-to-measure cabinetry far better than off-the-shelf units. We plan the layout around the room's real geometry and light, choosing worktops in quartz, granite or composite, integrating appliances neatly and designing lighting that lifts a room which may not get direct sun for much of the day.

Under the finish we renew what matters. That means fresh plumbing runs for the sink, dishwasher and any island, updated electrics certified by a registered electrician under Part P, tiling and extraction that keeps cooking smells and moisture out of a flat where windows may be limited. Every element is fitted by our own team, so the standard stays consistent from carcass to final splashback.

• Pantry, larder and utility room integration
• Wall removal between the kitchen and dining room
• Waste and water runs moved, and gas by a Gas Safe registered engineer, before the units are set

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Marylebone & Park Lane and Bryanston & Dorset Square. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Once the kitchen renovation work in Marylebone is scoped, people usually go on to read load-bearing wall removal in Marylebone, kitchen renovation across Westminster, kitchen fitting in London, building contractors for London kitchen projects, our London kitchen renovation page and Renovation Lighting Guide.

The GS Renovation Difference in Marylebone

Marylebone kitchens combine tight spaces, leasehold rules and often a structural knock-through, and GS Renovation manages all three under one roof. You get a single accountable team for the beam, the services and the finish, transparent pricing, respectful working in an occupied flat, and a kitchen built to last, backed by our founder's 30+ years on the tools.

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254). Structural design is by the consulting engineer appointed to your project.