We design, make and fit bespoke kitchen islands in our own workshop in Poole, Dorset. An island can be the heart of a new kitchen, or a piece made on its own for a kitchen you are keeping. Either way it is drawn for your room and the way you live in it, then made and fitted by our own team.
Plenty of good kitchens are missing one thing: somewhere in the middle of the room to prepare, to sit and to keep the things that never find a home. If you are happy with the kitchen you have, we can make the island on its own to sit with it.
Send us a few photos of the room, your doors and your worktop, with rough sizes, and we will come back with what would work. We can paint the island to match your doors, or give it a colour of its own.
An island earns its place by doing a job. In Broadstone the island carries the hob, with stools at one end, and its back is a bookcase facing the sofa, so the sitting end of the room looks at books rather than the back of a cupboard. In Ringwood, a long island topped in veined stone takes the sink, with stools along one side. In Highcliffe the island keeps open shelves between its cupboards, within easy reach.
Tell us what yours needs to do (cook, wash up, seat the family, hold the things you reach for every day) and we will design it around that.
An island does not have to match. In Christchurch it is deep blue under a thick oak top, beside a wall of pale tall cupboards. Near Bath it is deep blue in a putty grey kitchen, and in Corfe Mullen it is dark and curved against pale grey, banded in brass.
We do all our own painting, in water-based paint: sprayed in our workshop as standard, or entirely by hand if you prefer.
Each island is made to measure in our workshop and built to suit the kitchen and the budget, in painted or natural timber, with solid timber frames and dovetailed drawers where you want them. Tops on our islands have included thick oak in Christchurch and veined stone in Ringwood. We can supply the top, or work with your worktop company.
The people who make your island fit it, and if anything ever needs attention, it is us you call.
A curved island banded in brass in Corfe Mullen, a deep blue island with a thick oak top in Christchurch, a bookcase in the back of a green island in Broadstone, a long island under old oak beams in Ringwood, a curved blue island with seats along it near Bath, open shelves in a pale blue gloss island in Highcliffe, an island on a herringbone floor in Canford Cliffs, a handleless island with the hob set into it in Sandbanks, a small island topped in black in a Port Solent penthouse, an aubergine island with rounded corners in Shapwick, an island with a double sink in Bere Regis and an island with shelves for cookbooks in Lilliput. For planning ideas, read our guide to kitchen layouts with an island.
Yes. We make islands on their own for kitchens people are keeping, as well as part of a new kitchen. Send us photos of the room, your doors and your worktop, with rough sizes, and we will tell you what would work.
No. Several of ours are a different colour from the kitchen around them: deep blue under a thick oak top in Christchurch, deep blue in a putty grey kitchen near Bath, and dark against pale grey in Corfe Mullen. We do our own painting, so an island can match or stand apart.
Yes. Our island in Ringwood takes the sink, the islands in Broadstone and Sandbanks take the hob, and near Bath the island ends in a curve with seats along it. For the water, gas and power, we can arrange qualified trades, or work with your own.
It depends on the room and on how many people use the kitchen at once. We measure the room and draw the island with the space around it, so you can see that it works before anything is made. If the room is tight, a peninsula joined to one run can give you much of the same; see our guide to peninsula kitchen layouts.
It depends on the size, what goes into it (a sink, a hob, storage or seats), how it is built, the finish and the top. Send us a few photos and rough sizes and we will give you a guide price before anyone visits.
We do. It is made in our workshop in Poole and fitted by our own team. We guarantee it against defects in manufacture for 10 years after the work is completed, and the hinges and runners also carry their manufacturer’s own guarantee. The full terms are in our terms and conditions.
Send us a few photos, rough sizes and your postcode, and we will come back with a guide price before anyone visits. If it suits your budget, we arrange a free design visit at your home or at our workshop in Poole, show you the design in 3D and give you a fixed price before anything is made.
Designed, made and fitted by our own team in Poole, Dorset.
Thomas Matthew Bespoke Kitchens & Fitted Wardrobes · 4 Allens Lane, Poole, Dorset BH16 5DA · 0333 577 2664 · info@thomasmatthewkitchens.co.uk
