Kitchen Renovation Streatham

GS Renovation creates kitchens across Streatham, from bespoke fitted designs to open-plan kitchen-diners in the bay-fronted Victorian and Edwardian terraces of SW16. We handle the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any structural knock-through as one continuous project.

In Streatham, 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 Streatham: 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 Streatham 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. Typically 3 to 5 weeks on site.

Open-plan kitchen-diners in Streatham terraces

The signature Streatham kitchen project opens the rear of a terrace, knocking the kitchen through to the middle reception to form a bright, sociable kitchen-diner that looks out over the garden. That dividing wall is almost always load-bearing, so we install a steel beam sized by a structural engineer, Lambeth building control signs it off, and often infill the side return to widen the room further.

With the space opened up, we fit the kitchen itself, running new plumbing and electrics, integrating appliances and laying the flooring and tiling. We plan the layout around the closet wing and the original chimney breast, common features in SW16 terraces, so the finished kitchen-diner feels generous and considered rather than squeezed into an awkward footprint.

Housing in Streatham

Streatham has around 27,640 homes on the Council Tax list: 29% post-war, 27% interwar and 43% predate 1919, with 67% flats and 33% houses. Most homes here are flats, and a kitchen in a flat in Streatham drains to the building's shared soil stack, while a new extract through the outside wall needs the freeholder's licence first.

Extract ducts and utility rooms in Streatham kitchens

A cooker hood that vents outside needs a hole in an external wall, and on a Streatham house that wall may be inside a conservation area. Lambeth changed the boundary of its Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill conservation area (CA 54) in January 2024, and it lists Streatham Lodge and Leigham Court Estate among the conservation areas with Article 4 Directions on external alterations. Where either applies, a new grille on a front or side elevation is an external change to check before the kitchen is ordered, since the hood position fixes the duct route. A recirculating hood avoids the question, and a rear wall exit may too, depending on what the direction for your area covers.

Lambeth's fee guide lists installation of a new WC, shower or utility as its own building control charge. A Streatham kitchen scheme that carves a utility out of an old scullery or the space under the stairs, with a new sink and washing machine waste, is therefore building regulations work. With 67% of Streatham homes being flats, the other case to plan for is a utility cupboard squeezed into a flat's hall. There, a washing machine needs a waste with a proper fall to the stack and a leak tray beneath it, because any leak goes straight into the flat below.

Bespoke kitchens and worktops in Streatham

Streatham's period terraces have alcoves, chimney breasts and tall ceilings that suit made-to-measure cabinetry far better than off-the-shelf units. We design the kitchen to the room, whether that is a classic Shaker style in keeping with an Edwardian home or a sleek handleless run for a modern extension, using every awkward corner the terrace throws at us.

For worktops we fit quartz, granite and composite surfaces, templated and installed to a precise fit, hard-wearing and easy to live with. Alongside the cabinetry we handle the tiling, task and feature lighting, extraction and the appliance integration, so the whole kitchen is delivered by one team. That single point of responsibility is what keeps SW16 kitchen projects on track.

Which trade signs off which part

A kitchen involves several separate qualifications and it is worth knowing who carries which responsibility. The electrician is registered with a competent person scheme and self certifies the notifiable work, issuing the certificate and notifying Lambeth. A Gas Safe registered engineer is the only person who may connect a gas hob or alter a supply, and they issue their own paperwork. Neither of those can be covered by a general builder's assurance. Where a beam is involved, the structural engineer is a separate appointment again, and their design governs everything else on the floor.

The rest sits with us: the joinery, the tiling, the plastering, the waste runs and any structural opening built to the engineer's design. Where a worktop is stone, the fabricator templates and installs it themselves and guarantees their own work. We hold the programme together so those visits happen in the right order, but the certificates come from the people who actually did the work, which is exactly how it should be.

• Island units and bespoke cabinetry
• New circuits, sockets and dedicated appliance supplies
• Handleless, shaker and in-frame door styles fitted

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 7 statistical areas in Streatham. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Once the kitchen renovation work in Streatham is scoped, people usually go on to read load-bearing wall removal in Streatham, kitchen renovation across Lambeth, kitchen fitting in London, when a kitchen needs a building contractor, kitchen renovation across London and Utility Room Ideas & Cost.

Why Streatham Homeowners Choose GS Renovation

Streatham homeowners choose GS Renovation because we deliver the kitchen and any structural work together. When your project needs a steel beam knock-through, the engineer we appoint sizes it, and we install it and get it signed off by Lambeth building control, then fit the units, worktops and services. One accountable team, transparent pricing and 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.