Kensington Kitchen Range

The Kensington kitchen range sits toward the top of what we fit for Derby and Derbyshire homeowners - a crisp, Shaker-profile door with a painted or handleless finish, built to look equally at home in a Victorian terrace as in a newer executive-style build. If you're weighing it up against something with a softer, more cottage feel, it's worth putting it next to our Clonmel range before you commit, since the two sit at similar price points but read very differently once they're on the wall. A free quote for Kensington means one of our designers comes out to measure your kitchen properly and gives you an itemised written price, not a guess over the phone.

Because Kensington is one of our premium lines, we tend to pair it with stone or engineered-stone worktops and integrated appliances rather than laminate and freestanding units, which is part of why it costs what it does. That isn't a fixed rule - we'll price it however you actually want it fitted - but it's worth knowing before you book the visit so the figures in the quote don't come as a surprise.

• Free design visit with a designer measuring your kitchen and talking through layout options on site
• CAD layout drawings so you can see the Kensington units in your actual room before ordering anything
• Kensington cabinetry supplied in your chosen door colour and handle or handleless style, hand-finished by our joiners rather than a generic flat-pack build
• Removal and legal disposal of your old kitchen units by our registered waste carrier
• Plumbing disconnection and reconnection for sink, dishwasher and washing machine by NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds qualified plumbers
• Electrical work - new sockets, under-cabinet lighting, spur runs - carried out by Part P registered electricians who issue a proper safety certificate
• Gas hob or range cooker disconnection and reconnection by a Gas Safe registered engineer, with the work signed off, not just plumbed in and left
• Making good to walls and ceiling around new units by our master plasterers where the old layout has left gaps or damage
• Worktop templating and fitting if you're taking stone or solid-surface with the Kensington cabinets
• A final sign-off walkthrough with your written guarantees handed over on completion

• Structural work such as removing load-bearing walls or moving a chimney breast - this needs separate structural sign-off and isn't priced into a standard kitchen quote
• Flooring supply and fitting, unless you specifically ask us to quote it alongside the kitchen
• Extending or upgrading your gas or electrical supply from the meter, if your existing supply can't take the new appliance load - this gets flagged at the design visit, not discovered mid-fit
• Appliances themselves are quoted separately from the cabinetry, so an American-style fridge freezer or a range cooker adds to the total rather than being bundled into a single Kensington price
• Repainting or redecorating the rest of the kitchen beyond the areas we've disturbed fitting the units
• Planning permission or building control applications, which are the homeowner's responsibility to arrange, though we'll tell you plainly if your job needs one

1. Measure and design visit -- One of our designers comes to the property, measures the room in person, and talks through how Kensington's door style and proportions will sit against your existing layout - not a quote worked out from photos.
2. Written, itemised quote -- You get a CAD drawing of the proposed layout alongside a price broken down by cabinetry, worktop, appliances and labour, so nothing is bundled into one number you can't check.
3. Strip-out and trade scheduling -- Once you've signed off, the old kitchen comes out, waste goes with our registered carrier, and the plumbing, electrics, plastering and any Gas Safe work are booked in as one project-managed run rather than separate call-outs you have to organise yourself.
4. Units go in, worktop gets templated -- Kensington cabinets are fitted level and square first; if you've chosen stone or solid surface, the worktop is laser-templated on site afterwards so the cut matches the room exactly rather than a set of assumed measurements.
5. Certification, snagging and handover -- Gas and electrical work is signed off with proper certificates, plastering is made good, and we walk the finished kitchen with you before handing over your written guarantees.

Kensington sits in our premium bracket, and industry cost guides back that up - MyJobQuote's 2026 Kitchen Fitting Cost Guide puts a premium fitted kitchen with stone worktops and integrated appliances at roughly £22,000-£35,000 or more, and a Kensington fit with a quartz or granite worktop and a full run of integrated appliances typically lands in that range. Go for a smaller kitchen, a laminate worktop, or freestanding appliances instead of integrated ones, and the total comes down meaningfully - the door style itself isn't what drives the biggest swings in price, the worktop material and appliance package are. None of that is a substitute for an actual number: your real figure depends on room size, how much rewiring and replumbing the layout needs, and whether there's structural work involved, which is exactly why we don't quote a fixed price without seeing the room first. The free design visit gets you a written, itemised quote you can hold us to, with units, worktop, appliances and labour broken out separately rather than lumped into one figure.

Kensington is one of our premium lines, and that premium positioning means something specific here: most people fitting it are pairing it with a full slab of quartz or granite, often running across an island, which means the worktop join has to disappear rather than just get glued together. That's stonemason work, not a fitter with a jigsaw - our worktop team laser-templates on site and joints granite, marble, quartz, Dekton, Corian and Minerva so the seam on a Kensington island isn't the first thing you notice walking into the room. The cabinetry side matters just as much at this price point: Kensington's crisp Shaker or handleless doors are hand-finished by joiners with formal City & Guilds training and a bench-joinery background, rather than assembled from a generic flat-pack carcass, which is part of what you're actually paying for when a Kensington quote comes in higher than a budget range. Because we run every trade a Kensington fit needs - plumbers qualified to NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds, Part P registered electricians who issue their own safety certificates, and a Gas Safe registered engineer if you're taking a gas range cooker - as one crew rather than a chain of separate subcontractors, nobody is waiting on someone else to turn up before the next stage can start. Twenty years of fitting kitchens across Derby and Derbyshire has shown us which painted Shaker finishes chip first at a sink run and which handles work loose within a year, so a Kensington fit here is built to account for that rather than just following the brand's spec sheet. We're also a registered waste carrier, so the old kitchen leaves the property legally rather than in the back of an unmarked van. As the team here puts it before any job starts: we only fit kitchens to the standard we'd want in our own homes, and we put that in writing.

Derby is where most of our Kensington installations happen, from Victorian bay-fronted terraces close to the city centre to the larger detached houses out towards Allestree and Mickleover, where the bigger floor plans suit Kensington's run of tall larder units and a full-size island. We work from our Sunny Hill workshop, which keeps travel time down for anything that needs a return visit, whether that's a snagging fix or a follow-up template for a worktop. Beyond Derby itself, we regularly fit Kensington kitchens across Derbyshire and into Nottinghamshire - in Chesterfield and Dronfield, where older stone-built houses often need extra plastering work to make good around new cabinet runs; in Long Eaton and Ilkeston, where newer estate housing tends to need less structural adjustment; and out towards Matlock, Bakewell and Wirksworth, where Peak District stone cottages and their thicker, less regular walls mean our plasterers and joiners spend more time getting a straight, level cabinet run than they would on a standard modern build. We also cover Belper, Heanor, Alfreton, Swadlincote, Ripley, Duffield and Buxton, and take on jobs in Nottingham itself. Wherever the property sits, the free design visit and written quote work the same way - we come to you before anything is priced.

Kensington is a proper piece of joinery work rather than a flat-pack swap, so the sooner your free design visit is booked, the sooner you have a written price and a realistic start date instead of a guess. There's no obligation attached to the visit - you keep the CAD layout and the itemised quote either way, and you can compare it against other ranges before deciding anything. Call to get a date in the diary.

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