GS Renovation designs and fits kitchens throughout Welling, working with the 1930s semi-detached and interwar houses that define DA16. The classic project here opens the small original rear kitchen into a bright kitchen-diner facing the garden. With 30+ years in Bexley, we handle cabinetry, worktops, services and any structural work as one job.
Open-plan kitchen-diners in Welling semis
The typical 1930s Welling semi tucks the kitchen into a modest rear room, cut off from the dining space next door. The most popular renovation removes that dividing wall to create a single open kitchen-diner that opens onto the generous garden these interwar plots enjoy. Because the wall is usually load-bearing, this is a steel beam knock-through, sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control before the new kitchen goes anywhere near it.
With the space opened up, we plan the new layout around how the room now works as one, positioning the units, the island where the width allows, and the seating so the kitchen-diner feels natural rather than cramped. We integrate the appliances, run the new plumbing and electrics, tile the splashbacks and floors, and design the lighting in layers so the room performs for cooking, dining and family life across a DA16 evening.
Bespoke and fitted kitchens for DA16
Whether you want a handleless contemporary kitchen or a classic Shaker design in keeping with the interwar house, we fit cabinetry to suit the proportions of the room and the way you cook. On the awkward returns and chimney recesses common in these 1930s semis, made-to-measure units use the space far better than standard carcasses, and we plan around the existing window positions rather than fighting them.
We finish with worktops chosen for how they will be used, from hard-wearing quartz and granite to warmer composite surfaces, and we template and fit them precisely. All the electrical work in a Welling kitchen is notifiable under building regulations, so it is carried out and certified correctly. From first design to the final tile and light fitting, one team handles the whole kitchen so the result is coherent and built to last.
- Quartz, granite and marble worktops templated and fitted
- New circuits, sockets and dedicated appliance supplies
- Floor levelling and screeding before the flooring goes down
- Open-plan kitchen-diner conversions with steel support
- Supply and fitting of units, worktops and splashbacks
The GS Renovation Difference in Welling
Welling homeowners choose GS Renovation because we deliver the whole kitchen, including any steel beam knock-through, the plumbing, the notifiable electrics and the finish, as one accountable project. We know how the interwar rear rooms in DA16 can be opened up and how the party wall rules apply. With 30+ years in Bexley, the result is coherent and durable.
- Materials priced at options, so you choose the finish
- A temporary sink arranged where the kitchen is out for weeks
- Free, no-obligation quotations
- Our own trades on site rather than a chain of subcontractors
- Site left safe and secure at the end of every day
- Second fix carpentry and decorating finished by the same team