Kitchen Door Shop Nottingham - Doors & Custom Styles

Replacing kitchen doors instead of ripping out the whole kitchen makes sense when the cabinet boxes, worktop and layout are all still sound - the door and drawer fronts do most of the visual work anyway, and swapping them for vinyl, painted, solid wood or a fully custom style can change how a kitchen feels without weeks of building work. We measure every cabinet opening on site before anything is ordered, because a door that's a few millimetres out on an older run shows up straight away as an uneven gap or a hinge that won't sit flush, so doors are made or ordered to the exact sizing of what's already fitted rather than a generic off-the-shelf size.

Most of the kitchens we replace doors on fall into one of two camps. Older cabinet carcasses, often in Victorian terraces, tend to be a touch out of true square, and a Shaker or painted door style forgives that better than a sharp-edged modern one. Newer carcasses in city-centre apartments and recent builds are usually dead square, which is where a handleless or high-gloss vinyl door works best, since there's no moulding or bead on that style to hide an uneven reveal. Working out which camp your kitchen falls into is one of the first things we check on a measuring visit, before any doors are ordered.

• An on-site measuring visit before any doors are ordered, checking each cabinet opening individually and the condition of the carcass
• New doors and matching drawer fronts in vinyl, painted, solid wood or custom sizing
• Removal and disposal of the old doors and drawer fronts
• New soft-close hinges fitted and adjusted door-by-door so gaps run level along the full run, not just on the first door
• Handle and hardware fitting, drilled to match the new door style
• Colour matching so any exposed end panels or cabinet edges tie in with the new doors

• Full worktop replacement - that's a separate job, not part of a doors-only visit
• Repairing warped, water-damaged or structurally failing cabinet boxes - doors can't be hung reliably on a carcass that's already failing, so this points towards a full renovation instead
• Plumbing, electrical or gas work behind the cabinets - not needed for a door swap, but flagged separately if anything's spotted while measuring
• Custom door lead time - non-standard sizing adds roughly 2-3 weeks before fitting can start, on top of the fitting time itself

1. Enquiry and style choice -- We talk through vinyl, painted, solid wood or custom door styles and give a rough price band based on how many doors and drawer fronts your kitchen has.
2. On-site measuring visit -- Every cabinet opening is measured individually and hinge positions and carcass condition are checked, so we can confirm a doors-only job is actually the right fix before anything is ordered.
3. Doors ordered or made -- Standard doors are ordered to your run's exact sizing; custom doors are made to measure, which typically adds 2-3 weeks lead time before fitting.
4. Fitting day -- Old doors and drawer fronts come off, new hinges go in, and each door is hung and adjusted in turn so the reveals stay level along the run rather than drifting from door to door.
5. Handles and final adjustment -- Handles are fitted and drilled to the new door style, and hinges get a final check for even closing and soft-close action.
6. Sign-off -- A last look over the full run for alignment and gap consistency, then a written completion sign-off.

Swapping doors sounds like a weekend job until the first hinge goes in. The most common problem we get called out to fix on someone else's door swap is a hinge mortised into the wrong spot on an old cabinet carcass - a few millimetres out and the door either won't sit flush or drags on the frame every time it closes, and by then the drilling's already been done. The second is ordering doors to a "standard" size instead of measuring the actual opening: on a cabinet run that's a decade or two old, openings are rarely still perfectly square, so an off-the-shelf door can leave one edge with a wider gap than the other, or a run of doors that visibly steps out of line by the end.

Our carpentry and cabinet work is carried out by City & Guilds trained craftsmen who measure each opening on site rather than working to a catalogue size, and every hinge is set and adjusted door-by-door so the gaps run level across the whole run instead of looking right on the first door and drifting by the last one. As a family-run business rather than a national chain, that measuring and fitting is done by the same people who'd come back if a hinge ever needed adjusting later, not a subcontractor booked for a single day.

The areas above cover our busiest Nottingham suburbs, but the same door and drawer front replacement service extends further out across Nottinghamshire and into Derbyshire, including Mansfield, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Stapleford, and over the county line to Derby, Long Eaton, Alfreton and Heanor. Housing stock varies across that patch, and it affects which door style makes sense: Stapleford and Long Eaton have a lot of 1930s semis with standard-width cabinet runs, where a stock vinyl or painted door usually fits without any custom sizing, while the older ex-mining terraces around Kirkby-in-Ashfield and parts of Mansfield tend to have narrower kitchens with cabinets built into odd recesses, where doors more often need to be made to measure rather than ordered off the shelf. We work from a regional workshop rather than a shop counter, generally covering a 15-20 mile radius that stretches towards Chesterfield and the Derbyshire border, so a measuring visit or fitting date isn't limited to postcodes inside the city itself.

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