Florence Kitchen Range

If you've been looking at in-frame shaker kitchens and keep landing on the name Florence, here's what that actually means for your kitchen: painted, hand-finished cabinet doors set inside a solid timber frame, built to the sort of proportions that suit a Victorian terrace as easily as a 1990s semi. It's one of a handful of named ranges in our bespoke joinery line-up alongside styles like the Jefferson range, which takes a slightly different profile on the same in-frame construction, and the Madison range, for anyone who wants a cleaner, more contemporary alternative sitting further along the same catalogue. None of them are flat-pack products picked off a shelf — every Florence kitchen is measured, drawn and built for the room it's going into.

You can get a free, no-obligation quote on a Florence range kitchen whether you're in Nottingham itself, out in the wider county, over in Derbyshire, or as far as Wakefield — a home visit and a proper written quotation cost you nothing, and there's no pressure to commit once you've seen the CAD drawing of your own kitchen.

• A free measure-and-design visit, with Florence door samples and paint colours to handle in person
• Made-to-measure in-frame shaker doors and carcases, built to your kitchen's exact dimensions, not a standard grid
• Soft-close hinges and drawer runners fitted as standard, not sold back to you as an upgrade
• Plumbing for sinks, taps and appliance connections carried out by NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds plumbers
• Electrical containment, socket and lighting positions handled by Part P approved electricians, with safety certification issued
• Gas hob or range connection and commissioning by a Gas Safe registered engineer, where the job needs one
• Plastering and making good of walls once old units are stripped out, done by tradespeople with decades on site
• Removal and legal disposal of your old kitchen under a registered waste carrier licence
• A single point of contact coordinating every trade, so you're not chasing six different people
• Formal sign-off at completion with a written installation warranty

• Worktops are quoted separately once you've chosen a material — granite, marble, quartz, Corian or Dekton are all laser-templated and priced on their own
• Structural changes such as knocking through a wall or extending the kitchen footprint are surveyed and quoted independently
• Appliances themselves aren't included unless you've specifically agreed a supply package for them
• Flooring isn't part of the kitchen fit — plastering covers making good the walls, not laying a new floor
• Finance is arranged through an FCA-regulated partner and is subject to status, so terms depend on your own application

1. Free home consultation -- Someone comes to your kitchen, takes proper measurements, talks through how you actually use the space, and brings Florence door samples and paint colours so you're choosing from something in your hand, not a screen.
2. CAD design and written quote -- You get a photo-realistic layout of your own kitchen built with interactive floor-planning software, plus a full written quotation with no hidden extras — you can walk away at this point and it costs you nothing.
3. Ordering and trade coordination -- Once you sign off, cabinets go into production, worktop material gets laser-templated if you've chosen one, and plumbers, electricians, gas engineers and plasterers are booked in around each other so the job runs to a sequence rather than a scramble.
4. Strip-out and first fix -- The old kitchen comes out and is taken away under a registered waste carrier licence, then plumbing and electrics are first-fixed before a single new cabinet goes in — this is usually when period-property surprises like uneven solid floors or old lead pipework turn up, and it's dealt with before it becomes a problem later.
5. Cabinet fit, worktop and second fix -- Florence units go in, the worktop is fitted, appliances are connected and commissioned, and plastering is finished around the new layout.
6. Final walkthrough and sign-off -- You get a formal handover, any snagging is picked up there and then, and you're left with a written installation warranty covering the finished job.

There's no published price list specific to the Florence range — no kitchen fitter's is, because two kitchens with the same door style can cost very different amounts depending on how many units you need, what worktop you pick and what state the room's in underneath. As a general steer, kitchens with this business start from around £5,000, with flexible finance available through an FCA-regulated partner subject to status. Set against wider UK cost guides from Checkatrade and MyBuilder, a full kitchen supply-and-fit typically runs from around £6,000 up to £15,000 or more, with individual cabinets costing from roughly £120 each as a rough benchmark — treat both figures as indicative rather than a quote, since they're general market data rather than Florence-specific pricing. Because Florence is a painted, in-frame shaker style with soft-close hinges and runners as standard rather than an add-on, it tends to sit toward the middle-to-upper end of that range compared with a flat, slab-fronted budget kitchen, simply because hand-finished painted joinery takes longer to build than a laminated slab door. What actually moves the number for your kitchen is things like whether walls need moving, whether the old plumbing and wiring need bringing up to standard, and whether you're templating a stone worktop alongside the cabinetry. None of that can be priced honestly from a phone call or a photo — a free home visit is how you get a figure that actually matches your kitchen rather than a national average.

In-frame construction is the harder way to build a kitchen door — a solid timber frame jointed around a recessed panel, rather than a single sprayed slab of MDF. Cut those joints loosely, or rush the paint finish, and every gap and brush mark shows in a way a flat slab door hides far more easily; it's usually the first style a cheaper fitter steers you away from for exactly that reason. Every Florence order's carpentry and cabinet making is done by City & Guilds trained master craftsmen, which is the level of joinery this construction actually calls for rather than the general fitting skill a boxed in-frame imitation gets built to. It also helps that this is a family-run business that's been building kitchens to this pattern — traditional, hand-finished, sized to period proportions — across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands for over 20 years, among more than 800 completed for local homeowners, a good number of them in the Lace Market terraces where a painted in-frame door was probably the original kitchen style before someone stripped it out in a later refit. You deal directly with the people cutting the frame and hanging the doors rather than a call centre passing your job to a subcontractor, and the CAD floor-planning software used at the design stage shows your kitchen's actual proportions and frame lines before you commit — worth more with a period-style door, where the sightlines matter, than with a flat slab that looks the same from any angle on a screen. Every Florence build carries the same 5-year guarantee on labour and installation and 2-year guarantee on products as the rest of the range, backed by a written agreement before work starts and formal sign-off once it's finished.

Most Florence orders come from within roughly a 15-20 mile ring around the workshop: Long Eaton, Stapleford and Beeston along the Nottingham-Derby corridor, Derby, Alfreton and Heanor on the Derbyshire side, and Mansfield, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Sneinton, Arnold and West Bridgford closer to the city itself. Nottingham stays the strongest match for this particular style — the terraces around the Lace Market and the older streets nearby often had an in-frame shaker door as standard before a 1980s refit swapped it for something flatter, so putting one back tends to suit the house's proportions rather than fight them. Near Wollaton Hall and the Deer Park, the same joinery works just as well in the classic-meets-contemporary extensions going up in that area, not only in strictly period settings. Quotes also go out further afield to Chesterfield, Sheffield, York and Wakefield for larger or more involved bespoke projects, though anything at that distance still needs the same home visit as anything closer, so travel and scheduling get built into the quote rather than assumed to be free.

A home visit costs nothing and there's no obligation to order once you've seen the design — the only real cost of waiting is losing your preferred fitting slot, since kitchen diaries fill up well ahead of when the work actually starts. If the Florence range's classic shaker look is what you've been picturing, the next honest step is getting someone to measure the room properly rather than guessing from a photo.

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