Nick ArchiboldCabinets & Kitchens
Bespoke blue painted kitchen island with solid timber top made in Wiltshire

Workshop-built furniture

Bespoke Kitchen Islands, Dressers & Cabinets

Not every space suits standard cabinet sizes or layouts.

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Bespoke cabinets allow storage, furniture and features to be built exactly to your home, rather than adjusted to fit it.

Designed in your home and built in our Wiltshire workshop, each piece is made with care and purpose, whether that is a kitchen island, a kitchen dresser or a run of display cabinets.

For a complete room rather than a single piece, see fully bespoke kitchens.

Sage green bespoke kitchen dresser with glazed, lit upper cabinets and an oak worktop

MADE TO FEEL RIGHT AT HOME

Whether it is part of a custom kitchen or a standalone addition, each piece is proportioned, materialled and finished so it feels at home, rather than added later.

Mouldings, plinths, panel profiles and hardware are chosen to echo what is already in the room, so the cabinetry sits comfortably with its surroundings.

Real projects

BESPOKE KITCHEN ISLANDS

A bespoke kitchen island is built to your room rather than picked from a size chart, so you keep the walkways you need and use every inch of the space you have. Seating for two or for six, cupboards, drawers, open shelving, a sink, a hob or simply a generous run of worktop: the layout follows how you actually cook and gather.

Islands can be fitted with services run in, or built freestanding so they can move. Tops are solid timber, quartz or granite, and painted islands are finished in the colour of your choosing.

Bespoke solid oak kitchen island with open shelving and a light worktop in a yellow kitchen
A solid oak island with open shelving and a pale worktop, made to be the working heart of the kitchen
Bespoke oak kitchen island with open shelves and panelled cupboard doors
Open shelving on one side, cupboards on the other, sized to the room
End of a bespoke oak kitchen island showing panelled sides and an integrated socket
Sockets built into the island end, so it works as hard as it looks
Navy blue painted kitchen island with solid timber top and bar stools in a Wiltshire kitchen
A wide view of the professionally spray-finished island, showing the solid timber top and seating
Detail of a navy blue painted kitchen island with solid timber top and a stool
A professionally spray-finished island with a solid timber top and seating for two
Close-up of a solid brass hinge on a painted bespoke cabinet door
Solid brass hinges, fitted by hand

KITCHEN DRESSERS & WELSH DRESSERS

A kitchen dresser gives you the storage of a wall of cupboards with the character of a piece of furniture. Glazed or panelled upper cupboards, drawers and a worktop below, lit shelves for the china you like looking at, and closed doors for the china you do not.

Dressers can be fitted into an alcove or built freestanding, in solid wood or painted to match cabinetry you already own. Traditional Welsh dresser proportions or something simpler and more contemporary: both are made the same way.

Bespoke sage green kitchen dresser with glazed lit upper cabinets and oak worktop
Kitchen dressers form an attractive centrepiece to any kitchen; large or small
Bespoke solid oak Welsh dresser with panelled doors and drawers in a cottage kitchen
Solid ash construction allows the beauty of this dresser and display unit to shine through
Bespoke sage green painted dresser with white worktop, panelled doors and a decorative bowl
A hand-painted dresser that brings storage and presence to the corner of a kitchen. Designed to match the existing cabinetry

DISPLAY CABINETS, PANTRY & MEDIA UNITS

Beyond islands and dressers, the workshop builds larder and pantry cupboards, glazed display cabinets, wall cabinets, media units and built-in seating with storage underneath. Each is drawn around the room it lives in, then made and finished before it arrives.

Interiors matter as much as fronts: solid shelving that will not sag, lighting where it helps, and solid brass hardware that still feels right in ten years.

Painted bespoke cabinet doors open to reveal lit timber shelves of plates and cookware
Lit interiors and timber shelving, so everyday china is easy to reach
Open solid oak cupboard showing shelving, brass hinges and internal construction
Solid shelving and proper joinery, inside as well as out
Bespoke solid oak wall cabinet with panelled doors, crown moulding and a small shelf
Ash wood wall cabinets built to fit the room, with mouldings that match the architecture
Bespoke sage green painted cupboard doors open to show pine shelving with kitchen appliances
Painted externally, natural pine inside: practical storage with a fresh pine aroma
Bespoke sage green painted shelving unit filled with cookery books beside a matching tall cabinet
A workshop-built freestanding bookcase, painted to match the kitchen

BUILT BY NICK ARCHIBOLD

Every piece on this page was designed, made and fitted by me. I visit your home, draw the piece, build it in my fully-equipped workshop in Wiltshire and install it myself, so you deal with one person from the first conversation to the last adjustment.

There is no showroom commission, no subcontracted fitter and nobody who has to check with the workshop before answering your question.

Price guide

WHAT BESPOKE CABINETRY COSTS

Every piece is priced individually, but these are the ranges most of my projects fall into, so you can judge early on whether a bespoke piece fits your budget.

Bespoke kitchen islands

From £2,500 to £4,000+

A compact painted island with cupboards sits at the lower end; a large solid oak island with seating, sockets and a stone worktop sits at the upper end.

Dressers & Welsh dressers

From £3,000 to £4,500+

Price follows the size of the piece, the glazing and lighting in the upper cupboards, and whether it is painted or built in solid timber.

Display, pantry & media units

From £2,500 to £6,000+

A single wall or display cabinet starts at the lower figure; a full larder or a run of media cabinetry with fitted interiors reaches the upper one.

Prices include design, materials, workshop making, finishing and personal installation. You will have a written figure before anything is ordered, and if a standard or custom solution would do the job for less, I will tell you.

Questions

BESPOKE CABINETS, ANSWERED

As a guide, bespoke kitchen islands start at around £2,500 and run to £4,000 or more. A compact painted island with cupboards sits at one end of that range; a large solid oak island with seating, sockets and a stone worktop sits at the other.

Dressers typically start at around £3,000 and run to £4,500 or more, and display, pantry or media units from around £2,500 to £6,000 or more depending on size and interior fittings.

Because each piece is designed and built specifically for your home, the exact figure is confirmed during the design stage, once we both know exactly what is being built. You will have a written price before anything is ordered.

If a standard or a custom solution using pre-made components would work just as well for less, I will always say so.

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