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Bespoke Kitchens Designed Around Your Cumbria Home
Whether you live in a Lake District stone cottage, a converted farmhouse on the edge of the fells, or a large lakeside property, your home has its own proportions, its own flow, its own set of fixed points that shape everything around them. You are not buying a range of units. You are shaping how your home works and feels day to day. Your kitchen should be designed around your actual space, not adjusted from something drawn for a different one.
Every Mastercraft kitchen is designed around your space, built in our own UK workshop, and installed by our own team from start to finish. Because design, manufacturing and installation all sit with the same people, there is no handover between separate contractors. The person who designs your kitchen understands exactly how it will be made. Nothing gets assumed or lost between stages.
From First Conversation to Finished Kitchen
Your project starts in your home. We visit, look at the space properly, and begin to understand how your kitchen needs to work before anything is drawn or specified. From there, your design takes shape around your actual room. Once the design is agreed, your kitchen is made in our workshop and installed by the same team who have been with your project from the beginning. You are not left coordinating trades or chasing progress. Everything sits in one place.
Because design, manufacturing and installation all sit within one team, your project never gets passed from one contractor to another. The people who designed your kitchen understand exactly how it will be built. The people fitting it know what was designed, and why. In practical terms: fewer assumptions, fewer errors, and no one arriving on site who is seeing your plans for the first time.
How We Approach the Design of Your Kitchen
We do not begin with a catalogue or a fixed range. We start with your room. Its shape, its light, how you move through it, how it connects to the rest of your home. We get the layout and proportions right first. The visual decisions follow from that foundation. Not the other way around.
Homes across Cumbria vary enormously. A Lake District cottage has different proportions to a converted steading or a large rural farmhouse. Each project starts from a different point. Your home has its own constraints and its own possibilities. We approach your project on its own terms. No template. No attempt to fit a design that was drawn for a different kind of space.
If your room has a chimney breast, an awkward alcove, a sloping ceiling, or a wall that cannot move, those things are resolved at the design stage, not worked around on the day of fitting. Your kitchen is designed to sit within the architecture of your home. By the time manufacturing begins, everything is already accounted for.
Your Kitchen, Built to Last
Your kitchen is made in our own UK workshop, built specifically for your home. Every cabinet is rigid and factory assembled, not flat-pack components put together on site. That matters because factory assembly produces tighter tolerances, more consistent finish quality, and a more accurate fit when your kitchen goes in. What arrives at your home is a finished product, not a kit.
The same standard runs through the whole kitchen, not just the surfaces you see. Drawer runners, hinges, interior fittings, all specified and finished to the same level as the doors, handles and worktops you interact with every day. The parts that work hardest are often the ones you rarely look at. Getting those right is what determines how well your kitchen holds up over time.
Because we make your kitchen ourselves, we are not limited to standard dimensions or catalogue options. If your room has an unusual width, a run beneath a sloping ceiling, or an alcove that needs something specific, we build exactly what is required. Your space sets the brief. We build to fit it.
- Rigid cabinetry, factory assembled before it reaches your home
- Made in our own UK workshop, built to your exact dimensions
- Every fitting and interior component specified to the same standard
- No flat-pack on site, no compromises on tolerance or finish
Designing Kitchens Across Cumbria
We design and install kitchens across the full Cumbria region, from market towns to rural villages and suburbs. If you are in the area, we work with you.
Why Cumbria Homeowners Choose Mastercraft
When you are making a serious investment in your home, the most important thing is trusting the right team with it. Mastercraft is not a showroom brand or a kitchen retailer. We design, make and install everything ourselves, and your project stays with the same people throughout.
- Designed, made and installed by the same team, with no contractor handovers.
- We work from your home, not from a showroom or a catalogue range.
- Every kitchen designed from scratch for your specific room and how you live in it.
- Built in our own UK workshop, to the tolerances a bespoke kitchen demands.
- Designed and built to last, not to be replaced in ten years’ time.
Start Your Design
If you are planning a considered kitchen project in Cumbria and want to understand what is possible in your specific home, we are glad to talk it through. There is no obligation at this stage, just a straightforward conversation about your space and what you want it to become.
A design consultation starts with us coming to your home. We look at the space properly, take in how it sits within the rest of the house, and talk through what you want your kitchen to become. No showroom visit, no pressure. We start in your room, understanding your home, before we begin thinking about design.
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Download Your Free BrochureFrequently Asked Questions
How long does a bespoke kitchen project typically take from start to finish?
It depends on the complexity of your kitchen, but as a general guide you should allow around four to six months from your initial consultation to installation being complete. That includes the design and specification stage, manufacturing in our workshop, and the installation itself. We will give you a clear timeline once we understand your project properly.
What happens at the first consultation?
We come to your home. We look at the room, take measurements, and talk through how you use your kitchen and what you want it to do differently. It is not a sales meeting. It is a conversation about your space. There is no obligation, and nothing is rushed. By the end of it, you should have a clear sense of what is possible and how we work.
My kitchen has a sloping ceiling and an old range fireplace that cannot move. Can you design around those?
Yes, and that kind of room is exactly where a bespoke approach makes the most difference. Features like sloping ceilings, chimney breasts, exposed beams and fixed structural elements are all resolved at the design stage. We design your kitchen to sit within those constraints, not around them. By the time your kitchen is being made, every dimension has already been worked out for your specific room.
What styles are available? Do you work with a particular aesthetic?
We do not have a fixed range or a house style. Your kitchen is designed to suit your home and how you want it to look. In Cumbria, we work with a lot of natural materials such as timber, stone and handpainted finishes that suit older or rural properties well, but the starting point is always your brief, your space and what feels right for the architecture of your home.
How does the manufacturing process work?
Once your design is finalised and approved, your kitchen goes into production in our own UK workshop. Every cabinet is built to your exact dimensions, factory assembled and finished before it arrives at your home. We do not use flat-pack components assembled on site. What is delivered is a complete, finished product built specifically for your room.
Who carries out the installation?
Our own installation team. They are not a separate contractor or a third party brought in at the end. They have been part of the process and understand your design fully before they arrive on site. That matters in practice because it means no one is interpreting plans cold, and any fine adjustments that need to happen on the day are dealt with by people who know your kitchen well.
Do you work with architects or interior designers?
Yes, and we are used to working alongside both. If you are already working with an architect or interior designer on a larger project, we slot in naturally. We are happy to work from existing drawings, coordinate with other trades, or collaborate directly with your designer throughout. The important thing is that we are involved early enough to shape the kitchen design properly, rather than being asked to fit something in at the end.
We are planning a large open-plan kitchen and dining extension. Can you design for that kind of space?
Open-plan spaces have their own design demands. Getting the proportions right, thinking carefully about where the kitchen sits within the wider room, how it reads from different angles, how it connects to dining and living areas. We approach these projects with all of that in mind. The design process is the same as any other project, but the brief usually involves thinking about the whole room, not just the kitchen run itself.
What does a Mastercraft kitchen typically cost?
Most of our projects sit in the range of £30,000 to £80,000, with some larger or more complex kitchens going beyond that. The variation comes from the size of your space, the materials specified, the appliances you choose, and how much structural or building work is involved. We will give you a clear indication of where your project is likely to sit once we have visited your home and understood the brief properly. There are no hidden figures.
Do you cover the whole of Cumbria, including more rural areas?
Yes, we work across the full region, including smaller towns and rural locations throughout the county. Whether you are in Kendal, Windermere, Carlisle or Penrith, or further out in the countryside, we come to you. Distance is not a barrier, and working in rural areas with older or more unusual properties is something we are well used to.
Can you handle kitchens in period or listed properties?
Yes. Older properties often come with complications that a standard kitchen company would struggle with: walls that are not straight, floors that are not level, ceiling heights that change, and structural features that are fixed. Because we design and make everything to your exact dimensions, those things are factored in from the start. We have fitted kitchens in farmhouses, stone cottages and listed buildings across the region.
We are renovating a holiday property in the Lake District. Is that a project you would take on?
Yes. We work on holiday properties and second homes as well as permanent residences. The design approach is the same, though the brief is sometimes slightly different. Kitchens in holiday properties often need to be more resilient, easy to maintain, and work well for people who are not familiar with the space. All of that feeds into the design from the beginning. We treat it as a considered project in its own right.