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Kitchen makers and fitters · West Kirby · since 2004

Drawn to the millimetre. Made to fit.

We survey your house, draw your kitchen by hand, build it in our Hoylake workshop and fit it ourselves, for the Victorian, Edwardian and 1930s houses of West Kirby, Hoylake and the Wirral.

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  • 4.9 from 212 reviews
  • 10-year guarantee
  • Fixed written quotes
A painted grey shaker kitchen seen square-on: eight tall wall units, a larder, an oven housing and a marble-topped island under two black pendants
Client
Your house
Drawing
HK-2611, elevation A
Scale
1:20
Drawn
S.H.

Elevation A, as fitted. Caldy, 2025.

A row of Victorian bay-fronted houses with gables and sash windows, cars parked outside

The houses we work in

No wall in West Kirby is square. We plan for that.

West Kirby and Hoylake were built in three goes, and each left a different kitchen behind. We have fitted kitchens in all three for twenty-two years, which is why every one of ours starts with a tape measure, not a catalogue.

  1. Victorian terraces and villas

    Around Grange Road, Banks Road and the streets off Hoylake’s Market Street

    A narrow back kitchen, a chimney breast, a floor that falls towards the garden, and walls that are a centimetre out over a metre. We scribe everything and trust nothing to be square.

  2. Edwardian houses

    Along Meols Drive, Caldy Road and Westbourne Road

    Bigger rooms and higher ceilings, which suits floor-to-ceiling larders and tall in-frame units. Many sit in a conservation area, so we tell you what that means before you pay for a drawing.

  3. 1930s semis

    Greasby, Upton, Meols and the roads behind the promenade

    A small kitchen at the back and a dining room beside it. Most of the kitchen-diners we build start here, with a steel beam and a notice to Wirral Council.

Years making kitchens on the Wirral
22
Kitchens fitted since 2004
640+
Guarantee on our cabinets
10 yrs
From 212 reviews
4.9

What we make and fit

From one new door to a whole new room.

Every price on this page includes VAT. Every quote is written, fixed and itemised, and plumbing and electrics are done by our own certified trades, never left to you.

  • Made-to-measure in-frame kitchens

    Tulipwood face frames, birch-ply carcasses and dovetailed oak drawers, built in our Hoylake workshop to your walls, and hand-painted in any colour you can show us.

    From £21,000

  • Supply-and-fit kitchens

    Shaker and slab ranges from a British maker we have used for fifteen years, planned by us, delivered to our workshop, checked, and fitted by our own two fitters.

    From £6,900

  • Knock-throughs and kitchen-diners

    The wall between the back kitchen and the dining room taken out on a steel beam, with the engineer, the Building Control notice to Wirral Council and the plastering in one quote.

    From £4,200

  • Worktops

    Solid oak, cut and oiled in the workshop. Quartz, templated and fitted by a fabricator in Bromborough we have worked with since 2011. Laminate where it is the sensible answer.

    Oak £260 a metre

  • Utility rooms and boot rooms

    The washer raised to a height you can reach, a deep ceramic sink, and somewhere to rinse a sandy dog after West Kirby beach before it reaches the hall.

    From £3,400

  • Larders and dressers

    Floor-to-ceiling larders with oak spice racks and drawers, and freestanding dressers scribed into the alcove beside a Victorian chimney breast.

    From £1,850

  • Appliances, bought and fitted

    Neff, Bosch and Rangemaster at our trade price with nothing added, installed by us, and the old ones taken away and recycled, not left on your drive.

    At trade price

  • New doors, worktops and paint

    Sound cabinets kept, new doors and a new worktop fitted, or your existing doors sanded and hand-painted in a new colour, in about a week.

    From £2,600

Hands marking a line with a pencil on a length of timber, shavings on the bench A hand pushing a block plane along a board, in black and white Two hands steadying a length of timber against a saw fence, in black and white

The workshop, Carr Lane, Hoylake

In-frame kitchens, made two miles from your house.

An in-frame kitchen has a solid face frame around every cabinet, and the doors sit inside it, flush, with a gap the thickness of a coin. It is how kitchens were made before flat-pack, and it is the only kind that ages like the house around it.

  • Tulipwood frames, birch-ply carcasses, nothing in chipboard
  • Solid oak drawer boxes, dovetailed by hand at the front
  • Hand-painted in the workshop, in any colour you bring us
  • Built to your measurements, scribed on site to your walls

Visits to the workshop by appointment, Monday to Friday. Ring the showroom and Kath will book you in.

Draw your kitchen

What would yours cost? Draw it, and see.

Choose a size, a door and a worktop and we will draw the run and price it from our 2026 prices. It is a range, not a quote: the survey is free and the quote is fixed.

Size of kitchen
Door style
Paint colour Dee Marsh
Worktop
Appliances
As well
4,600 mm run40 mm solid oak top

Your kitchen, fitted, typically

£12,500 to £16,000

About 9 weeks from survey to handover, 8 working days of them in your house.

  • 13 cabinets, shaker doors£7,800
  • Solid oak worktops, about 5.4 m£1,404
  • Strip-out, fitting and making good£3,400
  • Plumbing and electrics, by certified trades£1,300
Book a free survey with this estimate

Includes VAT. Ranges are 10% under to 15% over our typical price for that kitchen; old houses tend to land at the top.

Prices, 2026

What a kitchen costs on the Wirral this year.

Typical prices for the work we do most, including VAT, for houses between Hoylake and Heswall. Your quote will be written and fixed after the survey, and it will be the number on the final invoice.

Water running from a brass tap into a white ceramic sink in an oak worktop
Oak, oiled in the workshop, round a ceramic sink. £260 a metre.

  • Survey, measure and a hand-drawn plan

    At your house, about ninety minutes. The 3D drawing follows within a week.

    Free

  • Fitting only, your own units

    A typical ten-unit kitchen: strip-out, fitting, worktop, making good. Plumbing and electrics extra.

    from £2,400

  • Supply and fit, small galley

    Nine cabinets in slab doors, laminate worktop, fitted, plumbed and wired.

    from £6,900

  • Supply and fit, medium L-shape in shaker

    Thirteen cabinets and a larder, solid oak worktop. The kitchen most 1930s semis here end up with.

    from £12,500

  • Made-to-measure in-frame kitchen

    Built and hand-painted in our workshop, a five-metre run and a larder, with quartz.

    from £21,000

  • Knock-through to the dining room

    Steel beam and padstones, structural engineer, Wirral Council Building Control, plastering.

    from £4,200

  • Solid oak worktop

    40 mm, cut, jointed and oiled in the workshop, fitted, with a tin of oil to keep.

    £260 per metre

  • Quartz worktop

    20 mm, templated after the units go in, fitted with the sink and hob cut-outs.

    from £420 per metre

  • Utility room

    Four cabinets, a ceramic sink and a raised washer, plumbed in.

    from £3,400

  • Made-to-measure larder

    Floor to ceiling, oak drawers and spice racks, painted to match.

    from £1,850

  • New doors and worktop on your cabinets

    For a kitchen whose bones are sound. About a week.

    from £2,600

  • Plumbing and electrics

    By our Gas Safe engineer and NICEIC electrician, with the certificates. Included in every full quote.

    £900 to £1,800

Payments: 25% to order, 50% on delivery, 25% after the snag list is done. Deposits insurance-backed.

Knock-throughs

Two small rooms, one kitchen you can eat in.

  1. The back of a white rendered semi-detached house with a single-storey extension and French doors

    Week 0

    A back kitchen and a dining room, with a wall between them

    Most 1930s semis in Hoylake, Greasby and Upton were built with a small kitchen at the back and the dining room beside it. The wall between them almost always carries the floor above, so it comes out on steel, not with a hammer.

  2. An empty plastered room with bifold doors to the garden and two roof windows, ready for a kitchen

    Weeks 1 and 2

    Steel in, wall out, one room

    Our structural engineer sizes the beam and the padstones, we give Wirral Council Building Control notice, the wall is propped and taken out, the steel goes in and is boxed and plastered. The inspector signs it off before a cabinet arrives.

  3. The finished kitchen: cream units, a range cooker against an exposed brick wall and a wooden table

    Weeks 6 to 8

    A kitchen you can eat in

    Then the kitchen goes in like any other, except that it has a table at the end of it now. You get the completion certificate from the council, which a buyer’s solicitor will ask for when you sell.

  4. Typically

    From £4,200 for the knock-through, on top of the kitchen, and about one week added to the job.

    What Building Control needs

How it works

Survey to handover, in seven steps you can see coming.

  1. Survey and measure

    We come to the house, measure every wall at three heights, find the pipes, the flue and the floor that is not level, and talk about how you cook.

    Free, about 90 minutes

  2. Drawn by hand, then in 3D

    Sian draws the plan and the elevations by hand, then in 3D so you can walk round it. Changes are free until you are happy with it.

    Within a week

  3. A fixed, written quote

    Cabinets, worktops, appliances, fitting, plumbing and electrics, each with its price. The number on the quote is the number on the final invoice.

    25% deposit to order

  4. Made in Hoylake, or ordered

    In-frame kitchens are built and painted in our workshop; supply-and-fit kitchens come to us first so we can check every door before it reaches your house.

    5 to 8 weeks

  5. Strip-out and first fix

    The old kitchen out and recycled, any knock-through finished, then the plumbing and the wiring moved to where the drawing says, and the walls made good.

    2 to 4 days

  6. Fitting

    Rob or Dan fit every cabinet and scribe every end panel to the wall it actually meets. Dust sheets down every morning, swept up every night.

    5 to 12 working days

  7. Handover

    A walk round with you and a snag list, the Gas Safe and electrical certificates, the appliance guarantees, and our own ten years on the cabinets.

    The last day

Our work

Kitchens between Hoylake and Heswall.

  • A dark green painted kitchen with oak worktops, a cream fridge and white flowers by the window

    Caldy

    In-frame kitchen in Thurstaston green, oak worktops scribed to a Victorian wall, a fridge the family would not part with.

    In-frame9 weeks

  • A blue-grey painted shaker kitchen with an oak-topped island covered in vegetables

    Hoylake, Alderley Road

    Painted shaker in Marine Lake blue with an oak-topped island where the chimney breast used to be.

    Supply and fit7 weeks

  • A long kitchen-diner with a rustic oak table and benches, the kitchen at the far end

    Greasby

    Knock-through in a 1930s semi: one long kitchen-diner, a table the length of it, the old dining room’s fireplace kept.

    Knock-through10 weeks

  • A ceramic sink and brass bridge tap set into an oak worktop, green panelling behind

    West Kirby, Westbourne Road

    Ceramic sink and brass bridge tap in solid oak, under a sash window that is two centimetres out of level.

    In-frame8 weeks

  • A cream kitchen peninsula with an oak worktop, a dining table and bookshelves beyond

    Meols

    Cream shaker peninsula opening onto the dining room, with the books on the other side of it.

    Supply and fit6 weeks

  • A grey kitchen island with a thick butcher block top among white shaker units

    Heswall

    A grey island with a 60 mm oak block top, in a kitchen the owners had planned for eleven years.

    In-frame11 weeks

  • A white shaker kitchen with a long solid oak worktop and an undermount sink under a window

    Frankby

    White shaker with a single run of oak, jointed in the workshop so there is one seam in five metres.

    Supply and fit6 weeks

  • White shaker units with a white quartz worktop and a matching upstand behind the hob

    Upton

    White quartz worktop and upstand on new doors, the old cabinets kept, done in eight working days.

    Re-door2 weeks

A washing machine with shelving and baskets beside it in a small bright utility room
And the room behind the kitchen Utility rooms, from £3,400. A washer at a height you can reach, a sink by the back door, a peg for the lead. Most of ours go in the old outhouse of a Victorian terrace.

Who you are dealing with

Four people, one workshop, and every certificate.

  • 10 years Our guarantee on every cabinet we make or fit
  • Gas Safe Registered engineer for hobs, ovens and range cookers
  • NICEIC Approved electrician, Part P certificates on every job
  • TrustMark Government-endorsed quality scheme for trades
  • FSC Certified timber for every frame and drawer we build
  • Protected Deposits held under an insurance-backed scheme
  • Rob MercerJoiner, and the founder. Twenty-two years of Wirral kitchens, most of them built at the bench in Hoylake.
  • Sian HughesDesigner. Draws every kitchen by hand first, then in 3D, and does the surveys.
  • Dan MercerFitter. Scribing, worktops, and the patience for a Victorian wall.
  • Kath LoweOffice and showroom. Quotes, deliveries and the diary.

4.9 from 212 reviews on Google and Houzz

  • They handled the engineer and the council, and the inspector had signed off the steel before the cabinets turned up. The kitchen-diner is the room we live in now.

    Ruth, Hoylake · Knock-through and kitchen · May 2026

  • Our Victorian kitchen has no straight walls. Rob scribed every end panel so you would never know. The hand-drawn plan is framed in the hall.

    Mark and Cerys, West Kirby · In-frame kitchen · February 2026

  • The quote was itemised to the plinth, and the final bill matched it. Swept up every night, which with two dogs in the house mattered.

    Alan, Greasby · Supply and fit · September 2025

  • A larder built into the alcove by the chimney, oak drawers that close like a car door. People open it at every party.

    Priya, Caldy · Larder and dresser · November 2025

  • They told us our cabinets were fine and only the doors and the worktop needed doing. Saved us about eight thousand pounds and it looks new.

    Joan, Heswall · New doors and quartz · June 2026

  • A sink by the back door for the dog after the beach. Should have done it ten years ago.

    Steve, Meols · Utility room · March 2026

Questions

What people ask us across the kitchen table.

Anything else, ring Kath at the showroom on 0151 496 0418.

Do I need permission to knock the kitchen through?

Not planning permission, usually, for an internal wall. But taking out a wall that carries the floor above is structural work under the Building Regulations, so Wirral Council Building Control has to be told before it starts and has to inspect it. We arrange the structural engineer, give the notice, and hand you the completion certificate at the end.

We are in a conservation area. Does that change anything?

Inside the house, rarely. Caldy, Kings Gap in Hoylake and Meols Drive are conservation areas, and they control what changes on the outside: new windows, a door to the garden, a flue through the wall. If the house is listed, even internal work needs listed building consent. We check which applies at the survey, before anyone draws anything.

How long will we be without a kitchen?

From the old kitchen coming out to the new one working, usually one to two weeks, longer with a knock-through. We leave you a working sink and a socket for a microwave wherever we can, and we tell you the dates before we start.

Can you fit a kitchen I have already bought?

Yes. We fit kitchens from the big retailers most weeks, from £2,400 for a typical ten-unit kitchen. We will check the order against the drawing before it arrives, because a missing filler panel costs a week.

Oak or quartz?

Oak is warmer, cheaper, can be sanded back after twenty years, and wants oiling twice a year. Quartz shrugs off a hot pan and a glass of red, needs nothing, and costs more. Plenty of our kitchens have both: oak on the island, quartz by the sink and hob.

How do the payments work?

25% to order, 50% when the cabinets are delivered, and 25% when we have walked round the finished kitchen with you and the snag list is done. Deposits are held under an insurance-backed scheme, so they are safe whatever happens to us.

Do you come to Heswall, or further?

Heswall, Irby, Thurstaston and Pensby every week. Further down the Wirral, Bebington or Neston, ask: for a made-to-measure kitchen we will travel.

A sailing dinghy on West Kirby's Marine Lake in front of the houses along South Parade

Where we work

From the Marine Lake to Heswall, a quarter of an hour either way.

The showroom is on Banks Road, two minutes from West Kirby station, and the workshop is on Carr Lane in Hoylake. Everything we fit is within a short drive of both.

  • West KirbyThe showroom Here
  • CaldyConservation area 4 min
  • HoylakeAnd the workshop 6 min
  • Frankby 8 min
  • Meols 9 min
  • Greasby 10 min
  • Upton 14 min
  • HeswallAnd Irby, Thurstaston 15 min
Directions to the showroom

Free survey

Tell us about your kitchen.

Sian will ring you to book a survey at a time that suits, usually within the week. The survey, the hand drawing and the 3D plan are free.

Showroom open Tuesday to Saturday

Showroom hours
Monday Surveys only
Tuesday 9:30am to 5pm
Wednesday 9:30am to 5pm
Thursday 9:30am to 7pm
Friday 9:30am to 5pm
Saturday 10am to 4pm
Sunday Closed
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