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Kensington spans the white stucco squares near the museums of South Kensington, the garden flats and communal gardens typical of the wider borough, and the leafier streets toward Holland Park. HausBespoke designs bespoke kitchens, wardrobes, and fitted joinery for all three, made to measure in our own workshop and detailed to sit comfortably alongside the area's mix of period grandeur and quieter family homes.
Explore our bespoke kitchens and all areas we cover.
Squares, communal gardens, and shared freeholds
Much of Kensington is built around garden squares with shared freeholds, communal garden committees, and conservation area rules that can affect anything from window replacement to rear extensions. While our joinery is internal, we design with an awareness of that context, since it usually means the building's exterior and shared spaces are well maintained and worth matching in ambition inside.
Where a project needs freeholder consent, for example for services running through a party wall or work affecting communal areas, we can provide the drawings and specifications needed to support that application as part of the design process.
Kitchens for garden flats and family houses
Garden flats around South Kensington and Earl's Court Road often have a kitchen extending into a side return or rear addition, opening onto a shared or private garden. We design cabinetry, worktop runs, and glazing sightlines together with any building work, so the finished kitchen reads as part of the extension rather than a separate space.
The larger family houses toward Holland Park tend to have the ceiling height and room depth to support an island, a larder wall, and proper zoning between cooking and family space. We design for that scale directly rather than defaulting to a standard galley layout that leaves the room underused.
Wardrobes for period bedrooms and box rooms
Kensington's period bedrooms often include chimney breasts, deep alcoves, and generous ceiling height that a standard wardrobe run ignores. We design fitted wardrobes and dressing rooms that scribe to the walls and use the available height fully, rather than leaving dead space above a modular carcass.
In smaller garden-flat bedrooms and box rooms, we focus on storage density: full-height doors, drawer stacks sized for what you actually own, and shallow runs along corridors or under stairs that would otherwise sit empty.
Working with managing agents and freeholders
Many Kensington buildings are managed by an agent acting for a freeholder, with their own rules on working hours, protection of communal areas, and contractor documentation. We handle that correspondence directly wherever possible, agreeing delivery slots and access requirements before manufacture is scheduled.
For projects that need formal freeholder sign-off before work can start, we build realistic time into the programme for that approval, rather than assuming it will happen quickly and then scrambling to adjust the schedule.
Questions clients ask
Do you design kitchens for garden flats with a rear extension?
Yes. We regularly design kitchens for garden flats extending into a side return or rear addition, coordinating cabinetry with the building work so the kitchen and extension feel like one considered space.
Can you help with freeholder or managing agent consent for the works?
Yes. Where a project needs freeholder or managing agent sign-off, we can provide the drawings and specifications needed to support that application, and we build realistic time for approval into the project schedule.
Do you design wardrobes for both large period bedrooms and small box rooms?
Yes. We design full dressing rooms for larger period bedrooms and storage-dense fitted wardrobes for more compact garden-flat rooms and box rooms, scaled to what the room can actually support.
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