Kitchens Radcliffe on Trent
The Victorian and Edwardian villas in Radcliffe have something most housing around here does not: the kitchen was built as a service room at the back, often with a scullery or pantry attached, and usually with more floor area than the equivalent terrace.
That is a good starting point. It is also why so many kitchens here involve absorbing an adjoining room rather than extending — the space already exists, it is just divided up by walls that stopped being useful eighty years ago.
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Traditional Kitchens Radcliffe On Trent
Villa kitchens
Knocking a pantry or scullery into the main kitchen is the most common project in this housing. Those dividing walls are sometimes load-bearing and sometimes not — it varies house to house, and it needs establishing before anything is priced. Where a steel is needed, that means building control through Rushcliffe Borough Council and a real cost in the budget.
The reward is a room with genuine run length, usually with a window in a good position and enough width for a peninsula.
The villas near the centre of Radcliffe are generously proportioned by the standards of anything else on our patch, high ceilings, decent room sizes and good window openings.
The height is the thing to use. A standard wall unit leaves a metre of dead air above it in a room like this. A taller run, or a full-height dresser, turns that into real storage and makes the cabinetry look like it belongs to the building rather than sitting in it.
Some of the substantial period property sits above the river cliff, where the rooms were designed around the view. In those houses the kitchen layout should stay low on the window wall, whatever that costs in wall storage.
Storage can go on an internal wall. A view cannot be moved.
Warwick in-frame suits the villas, and the taller rooms carry a deeper colour comfortably. Novoli Admiral Blue and Colbeck Heritage Green both work at that scale.
Modern Kitchens Radcliffe On Trent
Modern Kitchens
Radcliffe On Trent Nottingham
Two period characteristics to plan around: ceiling heights in these rooms are often high enough that a standard wall unit run leaves a large gap above it, and floors have frequently settled. Taking units to the ceiling recovers the storage and removes the dust shelf. Scribing handles the rest.
The modern estate housing around the village is regular, level and frequently open-plan already, which makes it straightforward to fit a contemporary scheme without compromise.
Island, tall bank on one wall, handleless doors and a long clean worktop line. Zagen and Cameo cover the doors, and Clarkwell Light Grey Graphite suits the bigger glazing.
Between the two sits the interwar and postwar stock, where the usual project is removing the wall between kitchen and dining room.
That is structural work — a steel, and building control through Rushcliffe Borough Council. Worth budgeting at the outset rather than meeting halfway through.
We fit Neff venting hobs, which pull downward through the cooktop rather than hanging a canopy in the middle of a room you opened up to be clear. The ducting runs under the floor, so it is an early decision.
In Frame Kitchens Radcliffe On Trent
Interwar, postwar and the newer estates
Square separate kitchens in the older suburban stock, with the dining room next door and the usual opportunity to open the two into one. Regular rooms, straight walls, level floors in the newer estates, where an island is realistic if there is a metre of clear floor all round it.
Where the hob goes on an island, a vented cooktop keeps the sightline clear across an open-plan room. We fit Neff appliances including the venting hobs.
Doors and colour
Painted shaker suits the villas particularly well. Colbeck Heritage Green and Georgian Thicket hold their depth in the rear-facing service kitchens where light is more limited than the room size suggests.
Warwick is the in-frame range, with the door set inside the cabinet frame rather than on the face of it — the more traditional construction and the right look in period property.
For the brighter modern rooms, Denton Porcelain Cashmere and Clarkwell Light Grey Graphite, with Zagen and Cameo at the handleless end.
Round to Stapleford and Derby Road, with parking on site and no appointment needed.
Kitchens and bathrooms both, with the doors hung and the drawers working, and the Aqualisa showers live on the wall.
We measure the room properly before anything is specified, floor levels, wall run-out and where the services currently run.
Radcliffe on Trent is Rushcliffe. Structural openings go through building control there; some of the older property near the centre may also carry conservation constraints worth checking.
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