Florence Kitchen Range

Florence is an in-frame shaker kitchen: every door sits inside a painted timber frame built around a recessed centre panel, rather than being a flat slab screwed straight onto the cabinet front. That framed construction is what gives the range its traditional look, and it's also why Florence tends to suit period Derby properties and older extensions so well - a framed door disguises a wall or floor that isn't perfectly true better than a flat slab front does, and a painted, framed surface generally ages more gracefully than a laminated slab front left to take years of daily knocks. It isn't a budget door dressed up with a nicer name; building a frame around a panel takes more joinery time than cutting a single flat board, and that extra work shows up in both the price and how well the door holds its shape over the years.

If you've landed here wanting a free quote for a Derby or wider Derbyshire home, the honest starting point is that your final figure depends on your room's dimensions, the number of units, your worktop choice and the door colour you pick, so nobody can give you an accurate number without seeing the space first. What we can set out here is how the range goes together, what a fitted Florence kitchen actually involves from first call to final walk-through, and what it tends to cost in the real world. Florence sits alongside our other shaker-style options, including the Wakefield range, and if you're still deciding between the two it's worth seeing door samples of both side by side before you commit to either.

• A free design visit with CAD layout options so you can see the room before anything's ordered
• Cabinetry supplied in the Florence in-frame shaker door style, in your chosen paint colour
• Soft-close hinges and drawer runners fitted as standard across the range
• Full removal and legal disposal of your old kitchen as a registered waste carrier
• Coordination of plumbing connections for sinks, taps and dishwashers by NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds qualified plumbers
• Electrical first and second fix for sockets, lighting and appliance circuits, carried out by Part P registered electricians who issue safety certificates
• Gas Safe registered commissioning if you're fitting a gas hob or range cooker
• Worktop templating and fitting, whether you go for laminate, stone or a solid surface
• Making good to walls and ceiling around the new units by our own plastering team
• A formal sign-off walk-through once the kitchen is finished, with your written guarantees handed over

• Kitchen appliances themselves aren't included unless you specifically ask us to supply them
• Structural work such as removing a supporting wall is quoted and Building Regulations-approved separately
• Floor tiling or flooring beyond the kitchen units is a separate line on your quote
• Decorating of adjoining rooms or hallways affected by the works isn't part of a standard kitchen fit
• Extending gas, water or electrical supply runs beyond the existing kitchen footprint costs extra if your new layout needs it
• Rewiring unrelated to the kitchen circuits, or upgrading a consumer unit, is priced as additional work if it comes up on survey

1. Initial call and rough scope -- You get in touch, tell us roughly what you're after - Florence range, approximate room size, any must-haves like an island or a particular appliance run - and we book a free design visit at a time that suits you.
2. Design visit and CAD layout -- Someone comes to your home, measures the room properly (not off a floor plan you send over), talks through door colours and worktop pairings for the Florence range, and works up CAD options so you can see how different layouts would actually look and flow.
3. Written, itemised quote -- You get a price broken down by unit, worktop, appliance and trade cost - not a single lump figure - so you can see exactly where the money goes and query anything before you commit to a deposit.
4. Strip-out and first fix -- The old kitchen comes out, waste is removed legally, and first-fix plumbing and electrics go in behind the new layout - this is the stage where anything hidden in the walls or floor, like old pipework or damp, tends to surface, and we'll flag it to you before proceeding rather than pushing on regardless.
5. Cabinetry, worktops and second fix -- Florence units go in, worktops are templated and fitted (stone worktops need a laser template taken after the cabinets are level, which adds a short lead time), appliances are connected, and electrics and plumbing get their final fix and testing.
6. Finishing and sign-off -- Plastering and making good around the new units, a final clean, and a walk-through with you to check every door, drawer and joint before your written guarantees are handed over.

There's no single published price list for the Florence range specifically - like most named ranges in this trade, the door style is one part of a bigger quote that includes cabinet carcasses, worktop material, appliances and the trade work to fit it all. As a general guide, UK fitted kitchens typically land somewhere between £7,000 and £10,000 for a full room, and an in-frame shaker range like Florence usually sits in the middle-to-upper part of that bracket rather than the bottom, simply because a framed door costs more to make than a flat slab front. Your actual figure moves with kitchen size, how many units you need, whether you're going for a laminate or stone worktop, and how much plumbing and electrical work the layout requires - a straightforward like-for-like replacement in an existing footprint costs noticeably less than a kitchen that's being extended, re-plumbed or rewired from scratch. The only way to get a number you can rely on is the free design visit: we measure the room, cost the units and worktop you've picked, and hand you a written itemised quote with nothing hidden in a footnote. If budget is the main driver, say so up front at the design visit - there's usually a way to hit a target figure by adjusting the worktop spec, cabinet run or appliance package rather than the door style itself.

An in-frame door only looks right if the carcass underneath it is dead level and square, because the frame sits proud of the box rather than wrapping over it edge to edge the way a slab door does - any twist in the cabinet run shows up as an uneven gap around every door on the wall, not just one. That's the part of a Florence fit that separates a good joiner from a fast one, and it's why our cabinetry work is carried out by joiners trained through City & Guilds with a bench-joinery background, rather than flat-pack assembly experience alone. It's also why we send master plasterers in ahead of the fit on older Derby properties, where a wall that's out of true by even a centimetre needs correcting before framed doors can sit flush against it - a step that's easy to skip and hard to notice until the kitchen's finished and every door line looks slightly off. Everything else on the job - plumbing connections, electrical first and second fix, gas hob commissioning, the final worktop templating - runs through the same crew rather than a rotating cast of subcontractors, so if something needs adjusting once the units are in, it's one phone call, not three. We're a registered waste carrier for the old kitchen that comes out, we're members of CITB and the FSB, and beyond our own ranges we fit supply-only kitchens from Howdens, Wren, Magnet and premium German handleless systems too - so a Florence fit sits alongside work we do every week, not a one-off we're learning on as we go.

Derby is where most of our Florence range fits happen, from Victorian terraces in areas like Normanton and Chaddesden - where a Florence kitchen often gets fitted into a narrower, boxier original layout and needs careful unit sizing to avoid a cramped feel - through to larger detached extensions in Allestree and Mickleover where an island run is more realistic. Our registered workshop is at 573 Stenson Rd, Sunny Hill, Derby DE23 1LP, and if you want to see actual Florence door samples, paint swatches or worktop off-cuts before you commit to anything, you're welcome to arrange a visit rather than judging colours from a screen. Beyond Derby itself, we regularly fit kitchens - Florence and otherwise - throughout Derbyshire, including Chesterfield, Long Eaton, Belper, Ilkeston, Heanor, Alfreton, Swadlincote, Ripley, Matlock, Dronfield, Duffield, Wirksworth, Bakewell and Buxton, plus over the county line into Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Rural and market-town properties around Matlock, Bakewell and Wirksworth often bring their own site conditions - solid stone walls that aren't perfectly true, old wiring that needs a proper look before a new circuit goes in, or narrow lanes that affect how a delivery van can access the property - and our design visit is where those get spotted and priced for, not discovered halfway through the job.