Strada Kitchen Range

If you've been looking at door samples and landed on Strada, you're looking at one of the cleaner, more urban lines in the range books - a slab-fronted design that reads as handleless or near-handleless depending on how it's specified, and one that sits well in both a compact terrace kitchen and a larger open-plan rebuild. Like most of the ranges you'll find on a fitter's sample wall, Strada isn't a fixed product with one finish and one price - it's a door and carcass system that gets built out to your layout, your appliances and your budget, so the honest answer to "what does it cost" or "how does it fit my room" only comes from someone measuring the actual space. We fit the Strada range alongside our other door collections, including the Tavola range, which sits closer to the traditional Shaker end of the spectrum if Strada's flatter, more contemporary look isn't quite what you're after.

A free quote means exactly that - someone comes to the property, measures the room, talks through what you actually want the kitchen to do day to day, and leaves you with an itemised written price. No pressure to sign there and then, and no vague ballpark figure that changes once the tape measure comes out.

• Gas hob or range cooker connection and commissioning by a Gas Safe registered engineer where gas appliances are part of the order
• Project management of the whole install from delivery through to final sign-off, so you're dealing with one team rather than chasing separate tradespeople

• Worktops are usually priced and supplied separately from the door and cabinet package, since stone, quartz and laminate all have very different lead times and costs
• Structural work - knocking through a wall to an adjoining room, moving a chimney breast, altering ceiling joists - sits outside a standard kitchen fit and needs its own separate quote and, usually, building control sign-off
• Appliances themselves (oven, hob, fridge, dishwasher) aren't included unless you've specifically asked us to supply them - we're happy to fit customer-supplied appliances from most major brands
• Flooring isn't part of the cabinet package, though we'll happily coordinate timing with your flooring fitter so the sequence of trades makes sense
• Plastering beyond patching around new sockets or removed units - a full replaster or skim of the room is quoted as an extra if the walls need it
• Rewiring the property's main consumer unit or fuse board, if it's not rated for the extra load a new kitchen brings - this gets flagged at the design visit if it's likely to be an issue

1. Design visit, hardware choice and written quote -- Someone measures the room in person, talks through how the kitchen gets used day to day - where the bin goes, whether you cook for a family every night or mostly reheat - and brings Strada finish samples so you can see the door colour and texture in your own light rather than under showroom lighting. Because Strada is a slab-fronted design, this is also where you settle on an integrated handle or a discreet edge-pull, since that choice affects the carcass build. It all feeds into one CAD layout and one written, itemised quote - doors, carcasses, worktop allowance and each trade's labour broken out separately rather than a single lump-sum figure.
2. Order confirmation and lead time -- Once you sign off the quote, the Strada units go into production. Lead times vary by finish and by whether any unit is a special-order size, so you're given a realistic date rather than an optimistic one, and we contact you directly if anything changes on the supplier's end before delivery.
3. Strip-out and first-fix trades -- The old kitchen comes out and goes to registered disposal. Plumbing and electrics get first-fixed before a single new cabinet goes in - moving a stopcock or chasing new cable after the units are fitted means taking things apart again, so it's done in the right order the first time.
4. Cabinets, doors and worktop templating -- Strada carcasses are levelled and fixed to the walls and floor, then the slab doors and drawer fronts are hung and adjusted - this is where getting the carcasses dead level actually matters, since a handleless-style door has no frame or bead to disguise a few millimetres out. Worktops are laser-templated once the base units are in position, giving a tighter fit than working from paper measurements, then cut and brought back for fitting.
5. Second-fix, testing and sign-off -- Appliances go in, sockets and lighting are final-fixed and certified by the Part P electrician, and any gas hob or range cooker is commissioned by the Gas Safe engineer. You get a walk-through of the finished kitchen and your written guarantees before the job's called finished.

A mid-range fitted kitchen in the UK - which is broadly where a Strada-specified job lands once you've got decent carcasses, a slab door finish and proper trade fitting rather than a flat-pack self-build - typically runs somewhere between £12,000 and £25,000, according to MyJobQuote's 2026 kitchen fitting cost guide. Where you land in that bracket depends on things that only get pinned down at the design visit: how many linear metres of units the room needs, whether you're going for a painted or gloss finish (finish and colour usually move the door price more than the carcass does), what you choose for the worktop, and how much of the plumbing and electrics needs moving rather than just reconnecting in place.

If your current kitchen is a straightforward reconnection - same sink position, same cooker point, walls staying where they are - you're generally at the lower end of that range. If you're changing the layout, adding a peninsula or island, or the existing wiring and pipework need bringing up to standard before anything new goes in, the figure moves up. None of this replaces an actual quote: a free site visit is what turns a bracket like this into a number you can plan around, itemised so you can see exactly what you're paying for the units versus the worktop versus the fitting labour.

Slab doors like Strada show every misalignment - there's no frame or bead to hide a carcass that's a few millimetres out of level, so the fit stands or falls on how precisely the units go in before a single door gets hung. That's why City & Guilds trained joiners with a bench-joinery background hang and adjust the doors themselves rather than leaving it to whoever's on site that day, and why the electrician wiring in under-cabinet lighting for a handleless run works from the same CAD layout as the joiner, not a separate set of measurements taken later.

We've been fitting kitchens - Strada and every other range on the wall - across Derby and Derbyshire for around two decades, and the guarantee reflects that: 5 years on the labour and installation, 2 years on the products. Plumbing reconnections and gas hob commissioning go through NVQ Level 2 / City & Guilds qualified plumbers and Gas Safe registered engineers respectively, and any waste - old units, packaging, offcuts - leaves the property through our registered waste carrier status rather than ending up in a skip on your drive. We're also members of CITB and the Federation of Small Businesses. The team's own line on this, and one meant literally: we only fit kitchens to the standard we'd want in our own homes, and we put that in writing before work starts.

Derby is where most of our Strada range work happens, from Victorian terraces around Normanton and Rose Hill with narrow galley kitchens where a slab-fronted design helps a tight room feel less cluttered, through to the newer estate builds out towards Chellaston and Mickleover where open-plan kitchen-diners suit Strada's cleaner look at a larger scale. We're based at our workshop on Stenson Road in Sunny Hill, which puts us within easy reach of Allestree, Littleover, Spondon and the city centre without a long drive eating into the working day.

Beyond Derby itself, we regularly fit kitchens - Strada and our other ranges - across Derbyshire and into Nottinghamshire: Chesterfield, Long Eaton, Belper, Ilkeston, Heanor, Alfreton, Swadlincote, Ripley, Matlock, Dronfield, Duffield, Wirksworth, Bakewell and Buxton, plus Nottingham and the wider Nottinghamshire area. Older stone-built properties around Matlock, Bakewell and Wirksworth sometimes bring solid or uneven walls that need a bit more care when fixing cabinets level and square - something that gets checked at the design visit rather than discovered halfway through the fit.

The only way to turn a price bracket into a real number for your kitchen is to have someone measure the room, so if Strada's the look you're after, the next step is booking that free design visit. There's no obligation attached to it, and no pressure to commit on the day - you'll walk away with a proper CAD layout and a written, itemised quote you can take your time over. Given how far ahead order lead times can run once a finish is chosen, it's worth getting that visit booked sooner rather than later if you're hoping to have the new kitchen in before any particular date matters to you.

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