Freestanding.

Kitchen furniture made as separate pieces — an island on legs, a dresser, a larder cupboard, a sink stand, a prep table. Each one finished on all six sides, standing clear of the wall, and able to leave the room without a saw..

How it is built

The same construction, whichever range

The range decides the door and the ornament. Everything behind it is built the same way, in the same building, by the same nine people — and it is built that way whether the kitchen is going to Suffolk or to Connecticut.

What it costs, and why → How a commission runs → How it reaches you →

Specification

Setting out	Drawn in CAD, then again at full size as a rod pinned above the bench. Machining is taken from the rod, not the screen.
Carcass	18mm birch-faced plywood (a shade under 3/4 inch), glued and screwed, 9mm backs (just under 3/8 inch) housed in rather than pinned on. Adjustable feet throughout.
Face frames	Solid timber, mortise and tenon, with scribed filler stiles where the joinery meets the building.
Drawer boxes	Solid European oak, 16mm (just over 5/8 inch) sides, through-dovetailed front and back by hand, waxed.
Runners	Full-extension soft-close, rated to 90lb.
Painted work	Four coats, brushed by hand in our own finishing room, with the final coat cut in on site after installation.
Installation	By the people who made it. Nothing is subcontracted and nothing arrives flat-packed.

A tall oak dresser standing against a stone wall, china on the shelves — The dresser

A freestanding oak sink stand carrying an apron-front sink — The sink stand

A small oak prep table standing free of the run — The prep table

A tall oak larder cupboard standing open, shelves and jars inside — The larder cupboard

The room from the corner, the island in the middle and the painted perimeter behind it

A freestanding oak island standing clear in a barn, painted cabinets around the walls and the trusses overhead — Freestanding, as built

A drawer pulled right out of the island to show the dovetailed oak box — Inside the drawer

A walkthrough of the freestanding pieces, described at the bench

Not the right one if you need every inch. Freestanding pieces cost space to look right.

A turned oak leg and rail on a freestanding island, Modular & Freestanding by Square & True

The island from the other end, stools drawn up to it

Made in this range

A kitchen we have built to this door

Essex, England · FreestandingFreestanding Oak KitchenA solid oak island on turned legs, standing free in a barn, with painted units and an oak dresser arranged around it rather than fitted to it.See the project →

All seven projects →

The other ranges

If this is not the one

The Suffolk — hand-painted in-frame English kitchen, built in Suffolk and installed in the United States

Hand-painted in-frameThe SuffolkA flat center panel, a plain stile and rail, a solid timber face frame, and paint.See the range →

The Essex — molded in-frame English kitchen with a hand-carved chimneypiece over the range

Molded in-frameThe EssexThe most decorated of the seven.See the range →

The Scandi — handleless character oak kitchen with matte black cabinetry, made in Suffolk

Handleless oak, solid timberThe ScandiFlat, finger-jointed fronts in character oak.See the range →

All seven ranges →

Every kitchen shown here 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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