GS Renovation designs and fits kitchens across Tottenham, from the galley kitchens tucked into rear closet wings to open-plan kitchen-diners in the bay-fronted terraces off the N17 streets near Wood Green. With over 30 years in North London, we handle the cabinetry, worktops, services and any structural work as a single project.
Open-plan kitchen-diners in Tottenham terraces
The classic Tottenham kitchen project knocks the rear kitchen through to the middle reception to make one bright, sociable kitchen-diner. That dividing wall is nearly always load-bearing, so we install a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by Haringey building control, then often infill the side return alongside the closet wing to gain the extra width these narrow terraces need.
With the structure open, we set out the new kitchen to suit the reworked space. Quartz, granite or composite worktops, integrated appliances, proper task and ambient lighting, and a layout that works around the run of services. Because the wall usually sits on the party line shared with next door, you serve any required Party Wall Act notice before the knock-through, so the whole job stays correctly certified.
Bespoke fitted kitchens for Tottenham homes
The chimney breasts, alcoves and tall skirtings of a Tottenham Victorian terrace rarely suit off-the-shelf units cut to a standard grid. We plan bespoke or made-to-measure cabinetry that fills the awkward returns and uses the full ceiling height, whether you want a handleless contemporary run or a classic Shaker look in keeping with the period house.
Everything behind the doors is handled in-house too. We move and upgrade the plumbing and electrics, add the notifiable circuits under building regulations, tile the splashbacks, fit extraction to clear cooking moisture from these enclosed rear rooms, and set the lighting. You deal with one team from design to the final worktop seal, not a chain of separate fitters and subcontractors.
What goes under a new kitchen floor
The floor is decided before the units, because everything else sits on it. In a Tottenham terrace the rear kitchen is often solid while the middle room has suspended timber, so a knock-through means resolving two different constructions and two different levels into one surface. Getting that wrong shows up as a lip in the middle of the room or a door that no longer clears the floor. Any threshold between the two constructions is designed rather than improvised once the units are in.
Underneath, there are decisions worth making now. Insulation to a cold solid floor pays for itself in comfort, underfloor heating frees the wall space a radiator would have taken, and a proper levelling compound is what makes large format tiles or engineered board lie flat. Any pipe or cable that will be buried in the build-up gets photographed before it is covered, so nobody is drilling blind into it in five years.
- Floor levelling and screeding before the flooring goes down
- Quartz, granite and marble worktops templated and fitted
- Tiling, flooring and feature lighting
- Old kitchen strip-out, disposal and making good
- Boiler relocation coordinated with a registered heating engineer
Trusted Kitchen Renovation in Tottenham
Tottenham owners choose GS Renovation because one team handles the whole kitchen, including any steel beam knock-through, the services and the finish. You get honest pricing, careful working in an occupied home and a kitchen built around how these period terraces are actually laid out, backed by more than 30 years across Haringey.
- A temporary sink arranged where the kitchen is out for weeks
- Dust screens and floor protection in occupied homes
- Itemised pricing, so you can see what every stage costs
- Old kitchen stripped, disposed of and made good within the price
- Neighbours given notice before the noisy stages
- New circuits and consumer unit work certified under Part P