Jefferson Kitchen Range

If you've been looking at door samples and keep coming back to the Jefferson range, it's usually for the same reason: a proper five-piece solid frame door with a raised centre panel photographs well but wears even better, because there's real timber structure under the paint rather than a flat printed foil. It's a traditional shape that works in a Victorian terrace off Uttoxeter Old Road just as comfortably as it does in a newer build out towards Mickleover, and because the frame takes paint and stain cleanly, you're not locked into whatever colour the showroom happened to have on the wall that day. If your taste runs more contemporary, our Strada handleless range sits at the other end of the same workshop, and a lot of customers ask us to bring samples of both to the same design visit before deciding.

A free quote costs you nothing beyond the time it takes to have someone measure the room and talk through what you actually want from it. We'll tell you honestly if Jefferson isn't the right fit for a particular kitchen layout or budget, rather than just quoting whatever you first asked for.

• Jefferson five-piece solid frame doors with raised veneer centre panel, in your choice of around 30 paint or stain finishes, or a sanded/oak finish if you'd rather see the timber grain
• 18mm rigid pre-fitted cabinet carcasses, built and squared before they reach site rather than flat-packed and assembled in your kitchen
• Confirmation of your chosen paint or stain finish against a physical door sample before cabinets go into production, not just a swatch on a screen
• Cabinet delivery, joinery fitting and scribing to walls and floors that are rarely as square as the original plans suggest
• Worktop templating and fitting to match the Jefferson carcass depth, whether that's laminate, solid wood, or a stone surface
• Plumbing reconnection for sink, dishwasher and washing machine, carried out by plumbers qualified to NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds
• Electrical work for under-cabinet lighting, sockets and extractor wiring, carried out by Part P registered electricians who issue safety certificates
• Gas hob or range cooker connection and commissioning by Gas Safe registered engineers where the kitchen includes gas appliances
• Removal and legal disposal of your old kitchen units and packaging waste, as a registered waste carrier
• Final snagging and sign-off walkthrough with your written guarantee paperwork

• Structural alterations such as removing a load-bearing wall between kitchen and dining room, which needs a separate structural engineer and building control sign-off before fitting can start
• Appliances themselves (ovens, hobs, fridges, dishwashers) unless you've asked us to source them as part of the quote
• Flooring beyond the kitchen footprint, or decorating in adjoining rooms
• Rewiring the property's consumer unit or main electrical supply, if your existing board can't take the additional circuits a new kitchen needs
• Asbestos survey or removal, which occasionally comes up in properties built before the mid-1980s and has to be handled by a licensed specialist first
• Planning permission or party wall agreements, where these apply to your specific property

1. Design visit and finish matching -- Someone measures the actual room and brings physical Jefferson door samples in a few finishes, so you can hold a paint chip or a fabric swatch against them in your own kitchen's light rather than deciding under showroom spotlights.
2. CAD layout and written quote -- You get a CAD drawing of the proposed layout and an itemised written quote covering cabinets, worktop, appliances if included, and every trade needed to finish the job, with no vague allowances hidden in the total.
3. Manufacturing to your chosen finish -- Once you sign off the quote, cabinets and doors go into production. Painted Jefferson finishes generally take a little longer than a stock colour because they're finished to your specific choice rather than pulled from a standard run.
4. Strip-out and first fix -- Old units come out and go for legal disposal, then plumbers and electricians do the first fix work behind the walls before a single new cabinet goes in - this is usually where older wiring or pipework behind lath-and-plaster or solid brick walls in a Victorian terrace turns up and gets dealt with, rather than left as a surprise.
5. Fitting and scribing the frame to your walls -- The 18mm rigid carcasses go in, and joiners scribe end panels and fillers to the walls and floor - on an older property that's rarely a straight line, and a solid frame door with real timber behind the paint takes that hand-fitting far better than a flat foil-wrapped panel would.
6. Worktop, connections and sign-off -- Worktop is templated and fitted, the Gas Safe engineer connects and commissions any gas hob or range cooker, sockets, lighting and extraction are tested, and you walk the finished kitchen with the fitter to snag anything that isn't right before receiving your written 5-year installation guarantee and 2-year product guarantee.

Budgeting for a painted, solid-frame kitchen starts from the same range most fitted kitchens fall into: a full installation in the UK generally runs from around £8,000 to £25,000, with mid-range projects most commonly landing between £12,000 and £25,000 depending on kitchen size, worktop choice and how much trade work is needed alongside the cabinets. Traditional five-piece frame ranges like Jefferson tend to sit toward the mid-to-upper end of that scale compared with a flat slab or foil-wrapped door, because a solid frame door costs more to manufacture and a painted finish is a separate process to a printed one. A small galley kitchen with a laminate worktop and standard-colour doors will cost noticeably less than a larger L-shaped or island layout finished in a bespoke paint colour with a stone worktop and full appliance package. None of these figures replace an actual quote for your kitchen. Room shape, existing plumbing and electrics, whether walls need levelling, and your choice of finish and worktop all move the number, so the only reliable way to know what your kitchen will cost is a site visit and a written itemised quote, which is free and comes with no obligation to go ahead.

A raised-panel frame door earns its keep on an older property because there's solid timber behind the paint, not a flat foil face - which matters when a Victorian terrace off Uttoxeter Old Road has a kitchen wall that's rarely square and a skirting board that's been repainted a dozen times since the house was built. Scribing that frame neatly to an out-of-true wall takes a different level of hand-fitting than butting a flat panel against it, which is why the joinery on every Jefferson kitchen is carried out by joiners with formal City & Guilds training and a bench-joinery background, not general fitters working from a spec sheet. If your kitchen includes a range cooker or gas hob, that connection and commissioning is carried out by our Gas Safe registered engineers, and lighting or power circuits are certified by Part P registered electricians, so you get proper paperwork rather than a verbal assurance it's all been done to standard. We've been doing this across Derbyshire for around 20 years, working as one crew rather than a chain of separate subcontractors you have to coordinate yourself, which is the exact problem the company was set up to fix in the first place. Every Jefferson kitchen carries a written 5-year labour and installation guarantee and a 2-year guarantee on the units, your old kitchen leaves the property legally because we're a registered waste carrier, and as members of CITB and the Federation of Small Businesses we also fit for major supply-only brands - Howdens, Wren, Magnet and premium German handleless systems - so if you've had a design done elsewhere we can usually still fit it.

Derby is home ground for most of our Jefferson installations, from Victorian terraces around Sunny Hill and Normanton to newer estate housing out toward Mickleover and Chellaston, and it's exactly the older housing stock in and around the city where a painted five-piece frame door tends to earn its place over a flat contemporary slab. Our workshop sits on Stenson Rd in Sunny Hill, which keeps travel time down for measuring, template collection and any snagging visits within the city. Beyond Derby we regularly fit across Derbyshire and into Nottinghamshire: Belper and Duffield have a lot of stone-built and Victorian brick housing similarly suited to a painted frame-and-panel door, while Matlock and Bakewell bring period cottages and converted farmhouses with the same kind of irregular wall lines that make solid joinery worth having. Chesterfield, Ripley, Alfreton, Heanor, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Swadlincote, Dronfield and Wirksworth are all within our regular working area, as is Buxton further up into the Peak District, and we also cover Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Wherever the job is, the same crew and the same guarantee apply - we don't run a different standard for jobs further from Derby.

Paint lead times and fitting slots both move around through the year, so the sooner we've measured your kitchen and matched a finish against your own walls, the sooner you've got a realistic date to work toward rather than a guess. The visit and quote cost nothing and commit you to nothing - if Jefferson turns out not to be the right range for your room or budget once we've seen it, we'll say so and show you what would work better instead. Call to book a free design visit and get your itemised quote.

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