Bespoke kitchen designs, drawn around you.

The kitchen you save for its beautiful island may be twice the width of your room. The useful part of the image might be the open preparation space, the timber detail or the way the dining area connects to the garden. Our Birmingham design studio helps turn those preferences into a bespoke kitchen plan that belongs in your home.

Choose a small set of images and write down what attracts you to each. “I like this kitchen” is less useful than “I want the cooking area to feel sociable” or “I want appliances out of sight when we are sitting at the table.” Those observations become design priorities instead of a shopping list of unrelated features.

Include examples you dislike. A busy splashback, heavy wall cupboards or exposed appliances can reveal your preferences just as clearly as a favourite colour. Keep the brief open enough for a designer to suggest a better way of achieving the same feeling.

Test the existing room with a small number of genuinely different arrangements. A galley might give you more useful preparation space than a squeezed-in island. A peninsula could provide seating while leaving a clearer route to the garden. A tall storage wall may free the rest of the room from upper cupboards.

• ◆Follow a bag of shopping from the entrance to the fridge and food storage.
• ◆Check where someone makes breakfast while another person empties the dishwasher.
• ◆Consider the view from the table or sofa, including what stays visible on the worktop.

For an early comparison of circulation and opening fronts, use our kitchen island clearance visualiser.

A breakfast cupboard is valuable if it stores the appliances you actually use and has suitable access, ventilation and power planned for them. A larder needs shelf depths that keep food visible. An island should earn its floor space through preparation, seating or storage, with enough room around it to work.

These decisions are more useful than copying every feature from one photograph. Once the layout works, a smaller palette of door finishes, worktop materials and hardware can bring the scheme together.

Explore the storage decisions behind a hidden pantry kitchen.

Posh Design designs and makes kitchen cabinetry in Birmingham for projects across our service area. Send the postcode, room photographs and any drawings with your enquiry. Add your priorities, approximate budget and whether building work is planned. We can then discuss the right starting point, at home or in the showroom.

At this stage, you are asking for a considered direction. Technical dimensions and the final specification need to be resolved before the kitchen is made, even when the first concept feels right.