Kitchens Burton Joyce
Burton Joyce grew as a commuter village around its station on the Nottingham to Lincoln line, and the Victorian and Edwardian houses built for that trade have a particular kind of kitchen: a service room at the back, often with a pantry or scullery beside it, and more floor area than the same period terrace in town.
That is a good starting point, and it means most kitchen projects here are about removing internal walls rather than extending.
Find Your Dream Kitchen at Our Kitchen Showroom near Burton Joyce, Nottingham
We design and fit across the village and the Trent-side settlements nearby from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, eleven miles west.
Traditional Kitchens Burton Joyce
Villa and period kitchens
Knocking a pantry or scullery into the main kitchen is the most common job in this housing. Whether those walls are load-bearing varies house to house and needs establishing before anything is priced. Where a steel is required, that means building control through Gedling Borough Council and a real line in the budget.
Two period characteristics worth planning around. Ceiling heights in these rooms are usually high enough that a standard wall unit run leaves a substantial gap above it — taking units to the ceiling recovers that as storage and removes the dust shelf. And floors have frequently settled, so units get scribed and levelled rather than simply set out.
The older property near the station follows the pattern you would expect: a narrow original kitchen at the back, often already extended once, with the new and old floor levels not quite matching.
That step matters more than people expect. Fitted furniture has to be set out from the highest point of the floor, otherwise the worktop line climbs across the room. We level it off in the plinths, which absorbs the difference where nobody sees it.
A full-height larder with internal drawers does the job a Victorian pantry used to, in about a third of the footprint. It is the single most useful unit we fit in this kind of house.
Ours run to shallow shelving on the door face and deeper drawers below, so nothing gets lost at the back. In an in-frame range it reads as a piece of furniture rather than a cupboard.
In a family house near the river, doors get knocked. Painted timber is the only finish that can be made good on site without replacing the door.
Chiltern Hunter Green and Chiltern Contour Blue Ash both work in these rooms, which often have a single north-facing window over the sink.
Modern Kitchens Burton Joyce
Suburban and riverside housing
The interwar and postwar stock has square separate kitchens with the dining room next door, and the usual opportunity to open the two into one.
Riverside properties are worth a word: where a kitchen is at ground level and the property sits in a flood risk area, moisture-resistant carcass board rather than standard chipboard is a sensible specification. It costs very little extra at the point of ordering and matters a great deal if water ever reaches it.
The substantial riverside homes and the interwar and postwar suburban housing give you more room and more light than the terraces near the station.
Where there is a wide rear elevation looking towards the Trent, we usually put the long run against the internal wall and keep the window side clear. Wall units across a good view are a decision people regret.
Full integration hides the fridge and dishwasher behind matching doors. It costs more, and it makes an appliance failure a slightly bigger job.
The compromise most people land on is integrating the dishwasher and the fridge, and leaving the oven and hob visible as the deliberate features they are.
Trent-side properties can run damper than average at ground level. Engineered board and LVT both cope; solid timber in a low-lying kitchen is a gamble.
Whatever goes down, it goes down after the units, not before. You never want a floor that stops at the cabinet line if an appliance has to come out.
In Frame Kitchens Burton Joyce
Doors and colour
Painted shaker suits the period housing here particularly well.
The rear service kitchens often have less light than their size suggests, and in that light a pale finish goes flat — Colbeck Heritage Green and Georgian Thicket hold their depth. Georgian Damson Lavender is the one people come back to.
Choosing Our Kitchen
Showroom near Burton Joyce
Warwick is the in-frame range, with the door set inside the cabinet frame rather than on the face of it. For brighter modern rooms, Denton Porcelain Cashmere and Clarkwell Light Grey Graphite, with Zagen and Cameo at the handleless end.
We fit Neff appliances including the venting hobs.
About twenty-six minutes from Derby Road, Stapleford. Parking on site, and no appointment needed.
The Aqualisa showers are live on the wall and the drawers all work. Photographs flatten finishes. Standing in front of them does not.
Bring rough numbers if you have them, but the survey is ours. We check floor levels and wall run-out before anything is specified.
Burton Joyce sits in Gedling. Removing a structural wall needs building control approval there. A like-for-like kitchen replacement does not.
Kitchens Gallery
Twenty-six minutes out
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site.
Painted doors photograph badly and are worth seeing under real light. Call 0115 877 7595 or come and look.
