Kitchen Fitters Bexhill
Bespoke Kitchens Bexhill
Designed around your room. Built entirely by hand.
Made eight miles away. Fitted by the people who made it.
Bespoke & Fitted Kitchens in Bexhill, East Sussex
Most kitchen installers in Bexhill fit cabinets that somebody else manufactured, in sizes decided long before anyone measured your room. We design, build, spray and install our own, which closes the gap where kitchen projects usually go wrong: the handover between the person who drew it and the person who has to make it fit.
Our workshop is in Pevensey, about eight miles along the coast, so Bexhill is genuinely local to us. During installation that proximity does real work. If a worktop needs adjusting or a panel needs remaking, we are back the same day rather than slotting you into next week.
Bexhill housing is dominated by Edwardian and inter-war building, and a lot of it has generous ceiling heights that standard cabinetry simply ignores. The seafront properties, the streets around the De La Warr Pavilion, Little Common, Cooden and Sidley all tend to have rooms with proportions worth working with rather than filling in. Building to measure lets us use the full height and every awkward recess instead of losing it to filler panels.
Why Littlejohn
Designed – Manufactured – Spray painted – Installed
16 yrs
On the tools
Sam Littlejohn is time-served, with City & Guilds Level 1, 2 and 3, all passed with distinction.
100%
Made by us
Every carcass, door and drawer is built and hand-sprayed in our own Pevensey workshop. Never flat-pack, never subcontracted.
Est. 2020
Independent maker
A proper Sussex workshop, designing, building and fitting every project under one roof.
Free
Design first
A home visit and a full 3D design before you commit to anything.
Project Gallery
Recent Bexhill kitchens
How It Works
From first conversation to cooking in your new kitchen
01
Free Home Visit
We come to you anywhere in Sussex, measure up, talk through your ideas, no obligation.
02
3D Design
See your project in photorealistic 3D before a single piece of wood is cut.
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Built In-House
Every component handmade and sprayed in our Pevensey workshop entirely by us.
04
Installed & Finished
Carefully packaged and delivered, our team then professionally installs your new kitchen.
Options
Kitchens we make in Bexhill
Everything below is made to measure in our own workshop, scribed to your walls and hand-sprayed in any colour. Nothing is ordered from a catalogue and trimmed to fit on the day.
In-frame kitchens
Doors set within a solid framework, built the traditional way. Suits the Edwardian and inter-war houses across Bexhill and made to outlast several kitchens of the usual sort.
Shaker & painted kitchens
Hand-sprayed in any colour, with solid carcasses and proper dovetailed drawers. The most requested style in Bexhill homes, and the one that most rewards being made properly.
Islands, pantries & utilities
Islands, larder and pantry cupboards, boot rooms and utility spaces designed in from the start, using the full ceiling height that Bexhill properties usually have to spare.
Materials
Worktops, timbers and finishes
Everything is specified with you at the design stage, and we will happily bring samples to your Bexhill home so you can see finishes in your own light rather than under showroom spotlights.
Worktops
Quartz, granite, solid timber, Corian and laminate, templated and fitted by specialists we have used for years. We will talk you through how each one behaves in daily use, including the ones we would steer you away from.
Timbers & carcasses
Solid tulipwood and oak for doors and frames, with strong moisture-resistant carcasses rather than thin chipboard. Drawer boxes are dovetailed and run on soft-close runners as standard.
Paint & finishes
Hand-sprayed in our own spray booth in any colour, including Farrow & Ball and Little Greene matches. A properly cured sprayed finish is far tougher than a brushed or wrapped one and can be refreshed years later.
Comparison
Bespoke, flat-pack or showroom: what you actually get
Most Bexhill kitchen enquiries come down to this choice, so it is worth being straight about it. All three are legitimate depending on budget and how long you plan to stay in the house.
Flat-pack & trade
Standard cabinet sizes in fixed increments, so any gap gets filled with a blank panel. Cheapest option, quickest to fit, and typically looks tired within a decade as fronts and edging start to lift.
Showroom brands
Better fronts and a designer to help you plan, but you are still working to a fixed range of sizes, and the fitting is usually subcontracted to a team that had no part in the design.
Made by us
Every cabinet built to your actual room in our workshop, hand-sprayed, then fitted by the same people who made it. Costs more than flat-pack, uses every millimetre of the space, and is built to be there in twenty years.
Specification
What is included as standard
No hidden extras and no design fees. This is what every Bexhill kitchen we build includes as standard, whatever the size of the project.
Design & drawings
A free home visit, full survey and a photorealistic 3D design before you commit to anything. Revisions until the layout is right, with no pressure and no design fee.
Build & finish
Solid carcasses, dovetailed drawer boxes, soft-close hinges and runners, and a hand-sprayed finish in your chosen colour. Made in our workshop, not ordered in.
Fitting & aftercare
Installation by the team who built it, scribed to your walls, plus a twelve month guarantee on our workmanship and cabinetry. One point of contact throughout, and we are local if you need us later.
Investment
What a bespoke kitchen costs in Bexhill
Every kitchen is made to measure, so there is no meaningful price list. The cost follows the size of the room, the materials and the level of detail, and Bexhill houses with generous ceiling heights often use more cabinetry than a modern equivalent. You get a clear, itemised quote after your free design visit, broken down so you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Testimonials
FAQs
Bexhill kitchen questions, answered
Do you cover all of Bexhill?
Yes, the whole town including Little Common, Cooden, Sidley, Old Town and the seafront. Our workshop is in Pevensey, roughly eight miles west, so Bexhill is properly local to us rather than an area we occasionally travel to.
What do kitchen fitters charge in Bexhill?
We are not a fitting-only service, so it is not a direct comparison with an independent fitter. Our price covers design, cabinetry built in our own workshop, hand-spraying and installation by the same team, and because everything is made to measure there is no fixed rate. We do a free design visit and give you a clear itemised quote with no obligation. If you already have units and only need them installed, an independent fitter will be cheaper.
How long does a kitchen take from start to finish?
Roughly ten to fourteen weeks from approving the design to completion, of which six to eight weeks is build time in the workshop. Installation usually takes one to two weeks on site.
Can you make use of high Edwardian ceilings?
That is one of the best reasons to go bespoke in Bexhill. Standard wall units stop at a fixed height and leave a dust shelf above them. We can run cabinetry to the ceiling, add a glazed upper tier or build in a dresser, which turns wasted height into genuinely useful storage.
Do you make the kitchens yourselves?
Every carcass, door and drawer is built and hand-sprayed in our Pevensey workshop and fitted by the same team. Nothing is bought in flat-pack and no installation is subcontracted.
Do you only make kitchens?
No. We also make fitted wardrobes, alcove units, media walls, home offices and larder cupboards, all from the same workshop and to the same standard.
Kitchens across Bexhill and East Sussex
Our workshop is in Pevensey, eight miles from Bexhill, and we design, build and fit kitchens throughout the town including Little Common, Cooden, Sidley and the seafront. The team that builds your kitchen is the same team that installs it, with one point of responsibility from first drawing to final handle. Not sure if you are in range? Just ask.
We also cover kitchens in Hastings, kitchens in Eastbourne and kitchens in Hailsham. See our full range of bespoke kitchens across Sussex. We also build fitted wardrobes in Bexhill from the same workshop, and plenty of clients do both.
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