Space-Saving Kitchen Furniture Nottingham

If your Nottingham kitchen is short on space, the answer usually isn't a bigger room, it's furniture built to fit the one you've already got. A drop-leaf table that folds flat, a worktop that pulls out only when you need it, or storage that runs right up to the ceiling can turn a cramped galley kitchen into a proper working space without any building work. Have a look through our full range in the kitchen furniture shop, or read on below for how a space-saving furniture project actually gets measured, built and fitted. Nottingham Kitchen Fitter has been doing exactly this across the city and the wider East Midlands for over 20 years.

Not Included / Costed Separately

• Full kitchen unit and worktop replacement -- that sits under our wider design and installation service, priced separately from around £5,000
• Moving stud or solid walls, or altering the room's structure
• Plumbing, gas or electrical work needed to reposition appliances around new furniture -- handled by our own Gas Safe registered and Part P approved tradespeople as a separate job
• Extra bracing or reinforcement to lath-and-plaster or stud walls for heavy wall-mounted pieces, which older Nottingham terraces often need -- only confirmed once we've seen the wall
• Bespoke stone or quartz worktops -- these come under our separate stone and surfaces service
• Delivery and fitting outside our normal Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire radius may carry a small travel charge

How a Space-Saving Furniture Project Runs, Start to Finish

1. Free home visit and measure: We come to your kitchen and measure the actual gaps, awkward corners and wall types you're working with -- a 15cm gap in a Victorian terrace in The Park calls for a different fixing to a stud wall in a new-build flat.
2. Design and floor plan: We put together a layout using our CAD and floor-planning software, so you can see how the fold-down worktop, drop-leaf table or pull-out storage will actually sit in your kitchen before committing to anything.
3. Written, no-obligation quote: You get a full written quotation with no hidden extras -- what's included, what it costs, and roughly how long fitting will take.

1. Build and fit: Our City & Guilds trained joiners build the pieces to the exact measurements we took and fit them on site, adding reinforcement to wall fixings where an older property needs it.
2. Sign-off and warranty: We walk you through how everything folds, slides or extends, then hand over a written installation warranty covering the work.

Flat-Pack Space Savers vs Furniture Made to Fit Your Kitchen

Why Nottingham Homeowners Trust Us With Their Small Kitchens

Fitting furniture that folds down or pulls out from a wall lives or dies on the fixing behind it, and that's where a lot of off-the-shelf drop-leaf tables and stock brackets come loose within a year. A stud wall needs the bracket screwed into the timber stud or backed with a noggin, a solid brick wall takes a different, heavier-duty fixing altogether, and the lath-and-plaster walls common in Nottingham's older terraces need bracing added behind the plaster before anything folding gets hung on them, because the plaster on its own won't take the repeated load. We check the wall type on the home visit and pick the fixing to suit it, rather than fitting the same bracket everywhere and hoping it holds.

The carpentry itself is done by City & Guilds trained cabinet makers, and where a project also needs plumbing, electrics or gas work moved to make room for new furniture, that's handled by our own NVQ-qualified plumbers, Part P approved electricians and Gas Safe registered engineers rather than a subcontractor we've never worked with before. Every job gets a written agreement before we start, a formal sign-off at the end, and a 5-year guarantee on labour and installation. We're also members of the Construction Industry Training Board and the Federation of Small Businesses.