Kitchens in Solihull — a guide to home transformation

Solihull is one of our most-installed postcodes. The architecture leans toward Victorian and Edwardian terraces, generous detached homes off the Warwick Road, and the postwar streets around Olton. Each has its own brief.

The Victorian Solihull kitchen lives at the back of the house in a side-return extension. The win is light from above — a roof lantern or large skylight — and a long, narrow island parallel to the original wall. We design these kitchens to read as part of the original house even though the cabinets are new. Hand-painted in-frame, brass hardware, a chimney breast retained as a built-in alcove.

Solihull's interwar semis tend to have square kitchens with a single window over the sink. The brief is honest storage and a layout that works for two people at once. Floor-to-ceiling cabinetry on the run, a freestanding island where the table used to be, integrated appliances throughout. The room reads three times bigger than it measures.

For Solihull new builds we tend to draw open-plan kitchens with a longer island and a defined breakfast zone. The architecture is generous; the cabinetry can lean modern. Slab fronts, handleless, stone worktops, big-format porcelain on the floor.

Every Solihull project starts with us coming to the house. The reason is simple: a kitchen that is right for a Solihull Victorian is wrong for a Solihull new build. The design visit gets the room measured, the daylight noted, the architectural detail catalogued. The brief gets written in the room it is for.

Solihull is twenty minutes from our Kings Norton workshop. Install teams are on site early, the cabinets come straight from the workshop, and the project manager is at the house every day. Local matters in this trade.

If a kitchen is on the brief for a Solihull home, book a free design visit. We have driven every road in the borough; we will know your house style before we arrive.