Kitchen Wooden Worktops and Surfaces Nottingham

Choosing a species is the first real decision in a wooden worktop project, and it changes more than the colour. Oak is the default for good reason - moderate movement, forgiving grain, and it ages to a warm honey tone - while walnut runs darker and richer with less visible grain contrast, maple is pale and tight-grained so shows knife marks and stains more readily, and iroko copes well with damp near a sink but carries a natural oil that changes how a finish takes to it. Solid wood brings a warmth to a kitchen that stone and laminate can't match, but timber is a living material that moves with heat, damp and the seasons, so getting the species, the joints and the finish right matters more than it does with granite or quartz. If you're planning cabinetry alongside your new worktop, our cabinet makers and joiners can build the units to match, so the species and colour of the worktop and the cabinets are chosen together rather than as two separate jobs bolted on afterwards.

Every worktop on this page is made to order in our own Nottingham workshop for customers across the city and out into Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and the same people who cut, join and finish the timber are the ones who fit it. That matters in practice - if a length of oak needs a couple of extra days to acclimatise to your kitchen before it goes in, or a run needs an unusual join to clear an old chimney breast or stud wall, that call is made by the person doing the work, not relayed secondhand through an office.

• Design and templating for your specific kitchen layout, including measuring up during the free home visit
• Solid timber worktops made to order in oak, walnut, maple, iroko, cherry or specialty timbers, in full stave, wide plank, end-grain butcher block, curved/laminated or mixed-material construction
• Your choice of edge profile - squared, pencil round, chamfered, ogee, bullnose or bevelled - plus drainer grooves and cut-outs for sinks, hobs and integrated features
• Oil, hard wax or water-resistant food-safe finishing, applied and cured before fitting
• On-site installation with proper expansion gaps and movement-tolerant fixings, so the worktop can move with the seasons without splitting
• Waterproof sealing of every cut edge around sinks and hobs
• A care kit and aftercare instructions handed over on completion

• Full kitchen cabinet installation and the other trades a kitchen project needs, such as plumbing, electrics and plastering - these are quoted and managed separately as part of a full kitchen project, see our kitchen cabinet maker and joiner page
• Stone, granite, quartz or engineered surfaces such as Corian or Dekton - these are cut and fitted by our stonemasons as a separate area of the business, not what's covered here
• Removal and disposal of your existing worktop - we can arrange this under our registered waste carrier licence, but it's priced separately once we've seen the job
• Repairs to a wooden worktop we didn't originally fit - we're happy to take a look, but we won't quote sight unseen given every fitter's approach to expansion gaps and sealing differs
• Ongoing re-oiling after the first year - we show you how and leave a care kit, but the six-to-twelve-monthly top-up is a DIY job unless you'd rather we came back and did it for you

1. Get in touch -- Call to talk through the wood, look and rough size you have in mind, and book a free home consultation.
2. Home visit and templating -- We bring timber samples to your kitchen so you can see how they sit against your cabinets and flooring, then take exact measurements for sinks, hobs and any curves or joins.
3. Made in our Nottingham workshop -- Dave and the team cut, join and shape the worktop by hand from the timber you've chosen, using full stave, wide plank or end-grain construction as agreed.
4. Finishing -- The worktop is treated with oil, hard wax or a water-resistant food-safe finish and left to cure properly before it leaves the workshop.
5. Fitting -- Our team fits the worktop on site, building in expansion gaps and movement-tolerant fixings, and sealing every cut edge around sinks and hobs with waterproof sealant.
6. Handover -- You get a care kit, plain-English aftercare instructions, and our written installation warranty.

Timber worktops are usually cheaper than granite or quartz, though the gap narrows if you pick an exotic hardwood or a thick end-grain butcher block over a straightforward oak stave top. What you pay depends on the species, the length and thickness of timber, how many joins, curves or cut-outs are needed, and the edge profile and finish you choose. Because every kitchen and every piece of timber is different, we don't quote a flat price without seeing the space - the free home visit is where we measure up, show you samples, and put together a full written quotation with no hidden extras. If your worktop is part of a wider kitchen refit, flexible finance is available through our FCA-regulated finance partner, subject to status.

A timber worktop lives or dies on the joinery, not just the species you pick. A full-stave top that's glued and clamped without enough care opens up small gaps within a year; an end-grain butcher block cut with the grain running the wrong way wears unevenly right where you chop. That's the level of detail our City & Guilds trained cabinet makers work to on every worktop, choosing the construction - full stave, wide plank or end-grain - and the edge profile to suit how the surface will actually be used day to day, not just how a sample looks on a showroom board. We're a family-run business that's designed and fitted kitchens across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands for over 20 years, and we've completed more than 800 for local homeowners, from Victorian terraces in the Lace Market to modern city-centre apartments - and every worktop is still cut, joined and fitted by that same in-house team, never sent out to a third party. You deal directly with the person making your worktop, not a call centre. Every job comes with a full written agreement before work starts, so there are no hidden fees, and a written installation warranty once it's finished, backed by a 5-year guarantee on labour and installation and a 2-year guarantee on products.

We're based in Nottingham and work from our own workshop across a roughly 15-20 mile radius, taking in West Bridgford, Wollaton, Beeston, Arnold and Sneinton in Greater Nottingham, out to Mansfield, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Stapleford in Nottinghamshire, and across into Derbyshire as far as Derby, Long Eaton, Alfreton and Heanor, with jobs further out towards Chesterfield and the Derbyshire border too. The housing stock varies a lot across that area, and it changes how we build a worktop for it: in the Victorian terraces around the Lace Market and similar older streets, solid ground floors and less consistent damp-proofing mean humidity swings more across the year, so we leave a bit more expansion room and tend to steer people toward a forgiving oil finish rather than a harder wax that can't move with the timber. In newer apartments and new-build kitchens - increasingly common around West Bridgford - running underfloor heating changes the problem again, since constant, even warmth pulls moisture out of timber steadily rather than seasonally; there we cut wider expansion gaps and talk through which species copes best, as denser hardwoods like oak and walnut generally handle that steady heat better than softer timbers. Wherever you are in that area, we bring timber samples to your home so you can see how the wood sits against your own cabinets and flooring before you commit to anything.

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