What an English kitchen costs, and why.
Our English minimum is £35,000. Our American minimum is not, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.
Crating, an ocean container, customs, a survey flight and a fitting team on the ground cost roughly the same whether the kitchen is small or large. That fixed cost has to sit somewhere, and on a small kitchen it swamps the price.
So we set a floor where the numbers are honest rather than quote you something we would have to claw back later. Below it, you would be paying more for freight than for cabinetmaking, and neither of us would enjoy that conversation.
| What you are paying for | Indicative |
|---|---|
| Kitchen, made and finished in Suffolk | from $152,000 |
| Crating, ocean freight, customs and duty | included |
| Survey visit and measured drawings | included |
| Our own team on site, 3–7 days | included |
Quoted in US dollars and held for 90 days. Shipping and installation are itemized separately on your quotation — we would rather show you the number than bury it.
What moves the number
The size of the room and the length of the runs. The countertop — honed marble and a sintered surface are not close in price. The hardware, which can be a few hundred dollars or several thousand. How much of it is furniture rather than fitted: a dresser and a larder cost more than the same volume of cupboards. And carving, on The Essex, which is priced off the drawing because it has to be.
Why we do not price by the linear foot
American cabinet shops usually quote a price per linear foot, and it is a fair way to compare two runs of the same thing. It stops being useful the moment the cabinets stop being the same thing. A linear foot of plain painted wall cabinet and a linear foot of glazed, carved, in-frame dresser share a measurement and nothing else.
We price the drawing instead. Every run is costed from what it actually contains, the carcass, the frame, the drawer boxes, the glazing, the carving, the finish and the hardware, so the number you are given is the number for your room rather than an average of everybody else’s. If you want a per-foot figure to set against a domestic quotation, ask and we will work it out from your own drawing, with the caveat that it will not tell you much.
What is not included
Appliances. Plumbing, electrical and gas work, which must be done by your trades to local code. Building work, flooring and decorating. Countertop stone is quoted separately once templated, because it cannot honestly be priced before the cabinets are in.
British-made cabinetry enters the United States at a capped rate of duty — materially lower than cabinets imported from most other countries, and the gap widens in January 2027. It is one of the few times the paperwork works in your favor. Duty is included in the price you are quoted.
Every kitchen shown on this site is one we have made. The images are visualizations rather than photographs of our clients’ houses. They are built from our own workshop drawings and our own photographs of the work on site, and finished with AI, because our clients ask that their houses are not photographed or published. More on that.
Tell us about the room.
Where the house is, roughly when you would like to be cooking in it, and what you have in mind. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.
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