Madison Kitchen Range

If you've been looking at shaker-style kitchens and keep coming back to the Madison range, you're not alone – it's one of the steadier sellers among our semi-bespoke door styles, and for good reason: a clean recessed panel, a painted finish that doesn't shout, and a carcass built to take the daily wear of a working family kitchen rather than a showroom. This page sets out what the Madison range actually is, what it costs fitted, and what a free quote visit in Derby or elsewhere in Derbyshire involves before you commit to anything.

The Madison sits in the same painted-shaker family as our Kensington kitchen range, and the two get compared often – the difference mostly comes down to panel proportion and handle detailing rather than build quality, so if you like the Madison's look but want to see a slightly different frame width side by side, ask your designer to bring swatches of both when they visit. Whichever you land on, the quote itself costs nothing and carries no obligation to book.

• Painted shaker-profile doors and drawer fronts in the Madison range's available colours, fitted to a semi-bespoke carcass sized to your room rather than a fixed modular grid
• Soft-close hinges and drawer runners as standard, plus internal fittings such as cutlery inserts, corner carousels and pan drawers where the layout allows
• A written, itemised quote before any work starts, so you know the price of the units, the worktop, the appliances and the labour as separate lines rather than one lump figure
• Full installation by our own joiners, including scribing end panels and filler pieces to fit uneven walls, chimney breast recesses and out-of-square corners common in older Derbyshire houses
• Plumbing connections for sink, dishwasher and washing machine carried out by plumbers qualified to NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds
• Electrical work – new sockets, under-cabinet lighting, spurs for appliances – carried out by Part P registered electricians who issue the safety certificates you'll need for building control or a future house sale
• Gas hob or range cooker connection and commissioning by Gas Safe registered engineers, including the fitting of an aga or range cooker into the Madison layout if you already own one
• Removal and legal disposal of your old kitchen through our registered waste carrier status, so units and rubble don't end up sitting in a skip on your drive for a week
• Worktop options to pair with the Madison doors, from laminate through to laser-templated granite, quartz, Dekton, Corian or Minerva, jointed on site by our stonemasons
• Making good around the new kitchen – plastering, tiling gaps, skirting – handled by the same crew so you're not left chasing a separate plasterer afterwards

• Structural building work – knocking through a wall to create an open-plan kitchen-diner, or moving a soil stack – is priced and scheduled separately as building work, not as part of the kitchen fit
• Appliances themselves aren't included in the base joinery price unless you ask us to supply them as part of the package; we're happy to fit customer-supplied appliances too, but warranty on those sits with the appliance manufacturer, not us
• Rewiring the property's main consumer unit or upgrading the electrical supply to the house, where the existing installation can't safely take the new kitchen's load
• Replastering a whole room rather than making good around the new units, if the existing walls are in poor condition beyond the kitchen area
• Listed building or conservation area consent, where required – that's your responsibility to arrange with the local authority before we can start work on some period Derbyshire properties
• Any changes requested after the itemised quote is signed off will be costed and agreed separately before we carry them out, rather than added on afterwards without your sign-off

1. Free design visit -- A designer comes to your home, measures the room properly (not just off a rough sketch), and talks through how you actually use the space – where the bin goes, where the kettle sits, whether you want an island or a run of units against the wall. You'll see Madison door samples and colour options in your own light, which looks very different to a showroom under spotlights.
2. CAD layout and written quote -- You get a scaled layout showing the Madison units in your room, plus a written, itemised quote broken down by units, worktop, appliances and labour. There's no pressure to sign on the day – take it away and compare it properly.
3. Order and lead time -- Once you confirm, units are ordered to your specification. Lead time depends on colour and any bespoke sizing, so we'll give you a realistic date rather than an optimistic one – this is usually the point where we also confirm the fitting week with you.
4. Strip-out and first fix -- Old units come out, plumbing and electrics are first-fixed to the new layout, and any plastering or making good needed before the new kitchen goes in is done at this stage.
5. Installation -- Carcasses go in first, levelled and scribed to your walls, then doors, worktop, sink, hob and appliances. Plumbers and electricians connect and test as each stage is ready, rather than everything being left to a rushed final day.
6. Sign-off walk-through -- A final walk-through where doors and drawers are adjusted, any snags are picked up on the spot, and you get your written guarantees for the installation, the units and any relevant safety certificates for the gas and electrical work.

Industry cost guides for a mid-range semi-bespoke shaker kitchen with integrated appliances and a stone or quartz worktop – which is roughly where the Madison range sits – put the fully fitted price at around £10,000 to £25,000, with the spread driven mainly by kitchen size, worktop material and how many appliances are integrated (source: Checkatrade and Which? kitchen cost guides, 2025/2026). Installation labour on its own tends to average around £3,500 nationally, though day rates of £250-£350 and smaller jobs closer to £2,200 are also typical for a compact kitchen, rising toward £4,600 for a larger one, according to the same Checkatrade cost data. Those are national averages, not our fixed prices – a laminate worktop and basic appliance package will sit well under that range, while a large kitchen with granite worktops, a range cooker and an island will run above it. The only way to get a figure that means anything for your own kitchen is a site visit, because room shape, existing plumbing and electrics, and how much of the old kitchen needs stripping out all move the number more than the door style does. That visit and the resulting quote cost nothing and come with no obligation to proceed.

We started Derby Kitchen Fitter because too many kitchen jobs in the city were being let down by a chain of separate tradespeople – a joiner who never spoke to the plumber, a finish that looked sharp in month one and had a swollen edge by the following winter. A Madison fit is joinery-led work: getting a flush, painted shaker door to sit properly against an off-square chimney breast or a bowed stone wall in an older Derbyshire house takes scribing and site-built filler pieces, not a standard carcass screwed straight to the wall, and that's the kind of detail our City & Guilds-trained, bench-joinery-background joiners handle as a matter of course. Once the units are in, making good around them – patching plaster back to the wall line, closing gaps behind an extractor or a moved socket – is done by master plasterers on the same crew who've built that finishing skill up over decades on site, not squeezed in as an afterthought. Because we supply and fit the Madison range ourselves rather than farming the job out, we back it with a written 5-year guarantee on the installation and 2 years on the units and worktop.

Our workshop is on Stenson Rd in Sunny Hill, Derby, which keeps most of the city within easy reach for design visits and site surveys – whether that's a 1930s semi in Chaddesden with a boxy galley kitchen, a Victorian terrace in Normanton where the original chimney breast still splits the room, or a newer build in Mickleover or Allestree where the challenge is usually the opposite: an open-plan space with no walls to hide services behind. We work throughout Derbyshire too, including Chesterfield, Long Eaton, Belper, Ilkeston, Heanor, Alfreton, Swadlincote, Ripley, Duffield and Dronfield, and further out toward Matlock, Wirksworth, Bakewell and Buxton, plus into Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The stone-built cottages and farmhouses common around Matlock, Wirksworth and the Peak fringes tend to have thick solid walls and uneven recesses rather than the flat plasterboard stud walls of a modern estate house – that's exactly where scribed end panels and site-built filler pieces earn their keep, since a standard 570-600mm base unit depth rarely matches a chimney breast recess cut by hand a hundred years ago without some joinery to close the gap neatly. In Derby's older suburbs we see a similar issue on a smaller scale, with bay-fronted terraces and narrow galley kitchens where getting the Madison range's proportions right on paper before fitting saves a lot of on-site improvisation later.

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