Putney – Victorian house extension
In Putney, our clients bought a house that hadn’t been touched for many years and set out to turn it into their family home. When they came to us about the kitchen for their extension, they already knew what they wanted: an elegant open-plan kitchen that would be the hub of family life.
The ceiling is very high, so we worked on the balance of the room and used the height with tall units and a symmetrical layout. All the cabinets are bespoke, with matt lacquer doors, plywood carcasses and oak internal drawers. Built into the cabinetry are a hidden desk, a food pantry and doors that lead through to the utility room.
The marble-effect porcelain worktops add a luxurious finish to the kitchen. The result is a kitchen that works hard for family life and still feels calm and considered.
What Our Clients Say
Mioko and Lucy at Kitchen Bee are just fantastic. From the moment I started to chat with them, I knew I was in safe hands. Mioko really took time to understand my needs, how we live. She maximalised space in our relatively small kitchen and the finished design is perfectly compact and luxurious feeling. Her expertise around which appliances and systems will suit was so helpful, and the kitchen I have is so beyond what I had dreamed I could have. She embraced my creative input on the design. She was conscious of my budget, always clear on costings, and the fitters she works with were first rate and so lovely. She worked really well with my builder and architect and is extremely organised and responsive, making sure everything was ordered in advance and in liaison with how the build was progressing. I always felt in safe hands and the kitchen design was such a fun aspect of my build. She’s incredibly thoughtful and responsive and calm which helps so much when you’re going through the stresses of renovation.
She really cares about how you’ll use your kitchen and brought to my attention ideas I’d never have been able to put together myself – built in spice racks,, storage around seating, hooks in places I didn’t know I needed them…the pull out storage solution she put in is genius and so pleasing to use! I love my kitchen so much and that is all down to Mioko’s design and the way the project was managed. After completion she is on hand to refine anything once we moved back in, and I just really enjoyed having her round. She takes the stress away so you can just get excited about the kitchen. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
We are extremely happy with our wonderful new kitchen. It has surpassed our expectations.
From the very outset of our journey with Kitchen Bee the solution was a design led one which was a refreshing change to other kitchen companies we consulted. Mioko knew to get what we wanted we had to remodel the access points and exterior windows and doors. That way the new kitchen would work seamlessly with the rest of our home delivering our vision. Throughout the entire process Mioko was the most consummate professional, embodied with that rare reassuring skill to navigate you through your project and deliver what was promised, on budget, within the time frame and above all with good humour. Despite the inevitable twists and turns that a remodel will throw at you Mioko was never phased and was immediately on hand with solutions.
I would highly recommend Kitchen Bee to you.
Mioko was excellent to work with and had some great ideas. She was a pleasure to deal with throughout planning and execution and she truly cared that the project was finished well. We would definitely use her again.
We worked with Mioko and her extended team of designers and builders on a large project to re-build and remodel our kitchen in Ealing. From start to finish the experience was beyond what we could have hoped for. Mioko has an exceptional sense of what is possible with a space and brought a wealth of ideas and options as we worked on the design and the selection of the materials. The wider team that Mioko brought to the project were exceptional and worked through the construction with professionalism and efficiency. The timeline that was committed at the outset was accurate and we had a lot of time with the head builder who spent a great deal of time onsite with us. When it came to small snagging issues there were no delay in completing the final touches and Mioko even pointed out some things we hadn’t noticed! I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Mioko for any project, we had a flawless experience with Kitchen Bee Design.
Mioko is very professional and really the best kitchen designer who I worked with. As a building contractor I used to work with many many kitchen showrooms, but since I discovered Mioko I do not recommend my customers to go somewhere else. Her precise plans and accurate measurements are making our job way much simple. Not to mention her attention to detail and great ideas. All this are making my customers to have the dream kitchen.
Mioko and Lucy did a wonderful job on every aspect of the kitchen design and installation. Not only were they impeccable in keeping us updated at every stage but were always so responsive and caring if we questioned anything or wanted to talk about details without us ever feeling under stress.
We love the creative design ideas and all the small things suggested that make the kitchen work so well for us. Kitchen Bee’s contractors were very professional and helpful too.
We are thrilled with our new kitchen. Mioko and I planned it together, selecting the colours, tiling and accessories. She made excellent suggestions throughout the process, based on her expert knowledge of her products. She made numerous visits to our flat to ensure I could make my colour choices from her samples in situ, and I felt very supported from start to finish. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her to anyone thinking about having a good quality kitchen for a decent price. Thank you again Mioko.
I can’t rate Mioko and Lucy enough! They designed a beautiful and practical kitchen for our new apartment. It is nearly impossible to balance function with form, but Kitchen Bee managed to pull it off. The 3D models they created are so real that they actually look like the real thing! Can highly recommend to anyone in the London area searching for a kitchen design company with an eye for detail that produces stunning results.
We are extremely happy with our beautiful new kitchen!
Mioko and her team did an amazing job from the beginning to the end. The entire process was well managed and it was such a joy to go through the process with her. Mioko is highly professional and was always available to answer our questions in a timely manner, she created beautiful designs and was very accommodating with any tweaks we wanted to make along the way. The kitchen fitter Nerus and the builder Kris she works with were also extremely professional and delivered a high quality of work. We couldn’t have asked for any better group of people to deliver our kitchen project.