Chalon UK Ltd, a market leader in handmade kitchens, bathrooms and classically styled furniture, has launched their latest bespoke kitchen range, the Chalon ‘Designer’ Collection at their London and Harrogate Showrooms.

The company’s distinctive kitchens are a blend of inspired design, solid timber and quality construction, rounded off with a unique finishing style.

The new Chalon Designer Collection provides the classical look and feel of its Original furniture, whilst the fitted style means it is well suited to any space and budget

Remaining handmade throughout, it has a flexible style that allows the company’s designers to choose elements from their Original range – such as the unique finishes or signature Worktables (islands) – and combine them with this new cabinetry to suit customers requirements.

Some special offers on the new range are available to all showroom visitors during May and June 2008, with a £1,000 discount offered on this new collection of furniture.

To see the quality and beauty of Chalon furniture and enjoy a first class design service, call at the showroom - The Plaza, 535 King’s Road, London SW10, or Harrogate outside the Victoria Shopping Centre in Station Parade; or online:

Web: http://www.chalon.com.

Tel: (01458) 254610

Quantum fitted furniture supply high quality bespoke furniture for kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, home offices and home cinema.

The Company’s philosophy is to fashion supremely comfortable, functional and aesthetically pleasing living spaces for their clients, utilising a room’s individual features and dimensions in imaginative and innovative ways.

Experts in the craft of fine furniture making, they are also skilled in Interior and Architectural Design; creating in both traditional and contemporary styles, classical timeless designs from detailed drawings, through to manufacture and installation.

Featured here is a striking new kitchen Quantum has recently completed for a customer, made from high gloss spray lacquered macassar veneer, individually selected by Quantum in consultation with the customer:

• The veneer was then expertly book matched, so that the chosen grain appears to flow seamlessly around the whole kitchen.
• The appliances are all stainless steel and the sink was specially moulded from 5mm thick stainless steel, giving a professional sleek finish.
• Soft close drawers provide plenty of space for all those awkward packets, boxes and tins.
• Plate racks and cutlery drawers are expertly concealed; jars and bottles are safely nestled inside cupboard doors with Blum pull out systems and hinges.

The latest flat screen TV’s can also be included, making sure you never miss your favourite soap whilst preparing the evening meal; it then folds neatly away, maintaining a clutter-free style.

• Even your Vino has its own chiller cabinet, so once the work is done you can enjoy a well-deserved glass at the perfect temperature.

Tel: (020) 8892 6430

The new coastal inspired Steamer Bay bespoke kitchen range from John Lewis of Hungerford, will bring a sense of blue-sky and sea breeze into your kitchen; ideal in a country home or seaside cottage setting.

Conjuring thoughts of fresh air and lazy-hazy summer days, distressed finish and cute candy striped wooden doors and oak work tops, combine with the relaxed summer and autumn colour palettes, to create a welcoming, homely and warm feel:

• The Steamer Bay range is available fully fitted or freestanding and the units are set upon a chassis frame that can be moved from room to room, and even house to house.
  The pine ledged doors of the cabinets are available with solid painted tongue grove and bead, framed pierced tin, blackboard or glazed door combinations.
  The design incorporates the popular butler style sink over-laid with an oiled rustic oak, solid work surface.
• Other features include traditional brass butt hinges or rustic over painted hinges, optional plinth for a more fitted feel, and a variety of handles including the tarnished brass drawer cup-handles.

Steamer Bay freestanding kitchen furniture options include, rustic oak surfaced distressed tables, chairs and benches, dressers and larders that can also be colour matched to fit the palette of every room.

All the cabinetry and furniture pieces are hand-made just for you by skilled craftsmen, allowing individual preferences to be incorporated at the design stage.

The Steamer Bay kitchen is priced from £8,000.

Web: http://www.john-lewis.co.uk

Tel:   (0700) 278 4726.

Cotteswood of Oxfordshire has created beautifully crafted tailor made furniture for over 24 years and seen many trends during that time.

The company’s bespoke kitchen designs, are inspired by classical English furniture and every element of the furniture is designed and made exclusively for you; appreciating that their ideas and designs have to be sympathetic to your architectural style and meet your requirements of colour, texture and space.

The latest must have for a kitchen is combining traditional wood finishes with contemporary materials and up to the minute appliances.

Revival and Renaissance cabinets feature painted cabinetry, with granite and walnut work surfaces and wood veneer interiors; the deeper frames below the wall and base cabinets are hallmarks of the Renaissance designs:

• The extra strong dovetail jointed drawers are made in a range of timbers to complement the exterior finish of the cabinets and every door is constructed with mortice and tenoned frames.
• Cabinets can be painted to any colour of your choice.
• Whether freestanding or fitted, all furniture is built to last.

Cotteswood Kitchens are proud to have won the House Beautiful Kitchen Range of the Year Award 2007; the Renaissance Range caught the judge’s eye, in what was one of the toughest categories.

A downloadable price guide is available on the Cotteswood website.

Web: www.cotteswood.co.uk

Tel: (01608) 641858 / 644620

Aldenham is a private company that designs manufactures and installs beautiful handmade kitchens and other furniture to the highest standards.

All of the kitchens in their portfolio are real kitchens designed individually to fulfil the customer’s wishes.

Going for Bespoke - You can tell truly bespoke kitchens by the detail; Aldenham always start with a blank sheet of paper and because there are no standard elements, their kitchen designs are full of unique custom-made details, which can only be built by skilled cabinetmakers.

The stunning kitchen shown here occupies a highly unusual space, with irregular heights, slanting rooflines and other architectural elements around which the furniture has been designed and built.

Aldenham has used a variety of techniques to maximise the impact and the use of space including ‘secret’ cupboards in the chimneybreast, tall cupboards scribed in at an angle and curves to add interest.

Every zone works to its fullest potential but without any sense of the kitchen being cluttered. It is a clever and sophisticated design, which could never be achieved with ‘standard’ kitchen elements.

Web: http://www.aldenham.info

Tel: (01189) 706 711

Bespoke kitchens are a matter of principle for Nolte Küchen; the company is renowned for its ability to design high quality kitchens in such a way as to take into account individual requirements, budgets and the available space.

Versatility describes not only the planning, but also the inspiring range, from classical and romantically stylish to timelessly modern, it includes many variations of fronts materials and programmes.

New from Nolte-Kuechen for 2008, is the Noce Amador finish for their Manhattan Range:

The striking 19mm thick door has a rich horizontal grain and a matt finish.

It is featured here with Manhattan wall units in mellow magnolia and an aluminium- glass look worktop, which is also new for 2008.

Matching splash backs, plinths, shelving and 40mm/50mm worktops are also available in the Noce Amador finish.

A 600mm base unit is priced around £225.

Web: http://www.nolte-kuechen.com

Tel: (01279) 868500

Chalon UK Ltd, the renowned designers and manufacturers of hand -crafted bespoke kitchens, bathrooms and freestanding furniture, have announced the extension of their distinctive range of exclusive wine racks.

Their full collection includes over 60 unique hand painted or polished finishes and 4 different levels of distressing.

The range now extends from the smallest 4 bottle capacity product, to the largest with space for 120 bottles, along with convenient drawers for storage.

The company is marketing their new wine racks, not only as the perfect finishing touch to a new Chalon kitchen, dining room, living room or study, but also as an affordable premium value Christmas present, starting from just £500.

The new wine racks include the 4 bottle wine rack, the 6- bottle horizontal, and the 6-bottle vertical all with drawers and the 6 -bottle vertical without drawer.

The smallest of these new wine racks measures only 483mm high by 270mm wide by 272 mm deep, so there is likely to be room for at least one in every household; these new products can remain freestanding, standalone items, or can be wall-mounted.

Featured here, is the new Wine Rack 6- Bottle Vertical with Drawer.
Dimensions: 633mm H x 270mm x 272mm
Recommended retail price £550.

Web: http://www.chalon.com

Tel: (01458) 254610

Using colour in the kitchen is a fine art, which is skilfully demonstrated by Smallbone of Devizes.

Smallbone was the first company to introduce hand painted bespoke kitchens and now, more than 30 years later, Smallbone’s decorative artists offer a choice of literally any colour from the 20 million the human eye can detect!

Charlie Smallbone comments, “We are seeing an increase in the use of strong, bold colours and the need to coordinate the same colours, textures and materials, has been replaced with a more eclectic approach, which is perfect for today’s multi-functional kitchen.”

The Smallbone ‘Mandarin’ kitchen shown here, uses three different shades of plummy pink to create a complete environment of vibrant colour.
 
To ensure the kitchen could take an abundance of dramatic colour, the owners replaced the original flat roof with a vaulted glass ceiling that floods the kitchen with light; pale worktops, floors and walls also complement the colourful units.

Web: http://ww.smallbone.co.uk
Tel:   (020) 7589 5998

Nolte Kuechen has become more and more successful the world over from year-to-year; as innovation leaders, they are repeatedly a source of new inspiration for the market.

In recognition of the current trend towards open plan living, Nolte Kitchens have introduced the Manhattan range of kitchen furniture, designed to help create an open plan flexible kitchen/living space.

The collection offers a selection of units in addition to their standard kitchen cabinets, which allow the creation of contemporary, practical living areas including, a freestanding single drawer unit that can be used for either seating or storage.

The Manhattan range is as varied as the cosmopolitan city of the same name, with a matt finish in a choice of: Metallic Kubanit, Italian Walnut, African Wenge or off white.

The Manhattan kitchen/living space featured here has been created with a combination of Metallic Kubanit and off white units.

The worktop is Nolte’s Canadian Apple finish and the large wall panel and shelves have been fashioned in the same material to create continuity in the design.

A standard Manhattan 600mm base unit is priced around £220.

Nolte manufacture their products using only environmentally sound processes and the latest technologies.

Web: http://www.nolte-kuechen.com

Tel: (01279) 868500

bulthaup, renowned for its innovative leadership in modern kitchen design, has become a pioneer in the industry for minimalist kitchens.

With the development of the bulthaup b3 monoblock, the company has laid a further milestone in the evolution of sculptural kitchen architecture.

The seamless stainless steel body represents the logical continuation of bulthaup b3’s minimalist design; the precise, high-quality finish and the lack of joints between the rear panel, side panels and worktop give the design a particularly purist appearance.

The b3 monoblock is solely a one-off item and is planned and manufactured exclusively in line with your specifications:
 
The dimensions, front materials and base unit elements can be selected at will, while functions such as hobs and water points can be integrated in line with your requirements.
 
Fronts in stainless steel with the handle-free look, round off the sculptured unit, or you can create dynamic contrasts in other bulthaup b3 surfaces such as wood, varnish, or laminate.
 
The monoblock can be planned as an island, with or without rear panel, as a peninsula or in front of a wall, depending on the architectural situation.

Visit the website for more inspiration and choices:

Web: http://www.bulthaup.com