Bespoke cabinetry
From the metre beside the fireplace to a full wall with a hearth, bookcases and lighting. We draw your bespoke cabinetry, build it in our own workshop and install it with our own team.
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Bespoke cabinetry
Every home has places where a shop-bought cabinet will never fit. The metre beside the fireplace, the corner under the stairs, the hallway that is just too narrow, the slope in the attic, the alcove that is four centimetres too shallow for a bookshelf. That is exactly where bespoke cabinetry wins: not because made to measure is prettier, but because it uses the space that is otherwise lost. A standard cabinet 60 centimetres deep in an alcove of 68 centimetres leaves eight centimetres of dust you cannot reach.
We draw every cabinet as a part of the room. Skirtings meet the floor, cornices meet the ceiling, and we divide the door widths so that the whole looks calm rather than random. Where a wall is out of square or a ceiling drops, a frame absorbs that difference without you seeing it. That is the work that happens on the drawing, long before any wood is cut.
Everything comes from the same workshop. We are not a reseller: we draw, build, deliver and install ourselves. That is why the desk unit on the first floor gets exactly the same colour and the same grain as the cabinet wall in the living room, and you keep one point of contact from the survey to the day the last drawer sits right.
From country style to contemporary. We specialise in the country style and have been making country cabinets with framed fronts and cornices for twenty-five years. We draw just as readily a clean, handleless wall that disappears entirely into the wall, or a classic library with pilasters and panelling in the same finish.
Our own projects
No photo studio and no catalogue images: these are cabinets standing in people's homes. Click an image to see it large.
What you get from us
The survey, the technical drawing and the photorealistic 3D cost you nothing when we carry out the work. The full arrangement is set out on rates and 3D.
From the first conversation to the aftercare you call the same number. We schedule the survey, the workshop, the electrician and the installation.
No reselling and no middlemen. Every size, every angle and every colour is possible, and the finish stays the same throughout your home.
A cabinet in an alcove is just as welcome here as an eight-metre library. In both cases you get the same drawing and the same team.
Why made to measure
A shop cabinet is placed in the room, a bespoke cabinet becomes part of it. That difference lies in four things you only notice once the cabinet is in: the height, the way it meets the walls, the internal layout and the position of the sockets. A cabinet that stops at eye level leaves half a metre of dust you will never reach. A cabinet that runs up to the ceiling gives you that half metre back as storage.
The layout counts for more than the outside. We always ask first what exactly has to go in: files 32 centimetres high, art books of 40 centimetres, a vacuum cleaner, an ironing board, wine glasses, board games, a printer. The shelf heights follow from that, and whether a compartment is better as a drawer. For heavy books we draw shorter spans or a thicker shelf, so that there is no sag in five years' time.
Anything you would rather not see can disappear into it. A door to the utility room gets the same front as the cabinet doors beside it and vanishes into the wall. A radiator goes behind a cover with a grille that lets the heat through. Cables, set-top boxes, amplifiers and a router get their own ventilated compartment with a cable pass-through.
What you are left with from us is a drawing and a 3D image. The drawing determines what the workshop builds: external dimensions, door division, shelves, drawers, hinges and the position of every socket. The 3D image determines whether it matches what you had in mind. Only once you approve both does anything get cut.
Design
Draw first, build second
Every project begins with an on-site survey. We measure the walls, the heights, the diagonals and the position of windows, doors, beams, radiators and sockets. In older homes hardly a single wall is square and hardly a single ceiling is level; that difference belongs on the drawing, not discovered on site.
Then comes a technical drawing for every cabinet. External dimensions, door division, shelves, drawers, hinges, handle orientation and the position of every socket. That is the document the workshop works from and the fitter arrives with. In the drawing alongside you see a hall cabinet set out with heights of 2380 and 2300 millimetres and a width of 2247 millimetres, including the mirror on the inside.
The 3D image is there for you, not for us. Not everyone reads a technical drawing with the same ease. So we add a photorealistic image, with the real colours, the real grain and the light of your own room. That way you can see beforehand whether a cabinet wall closes the room in and whether the colour works next to your floor. Revisions are part of it until it is right.
What we build
Everything below is built in the same workshop, so everything can be had in the same finish: from the library in the living room to the hallway cupboard and the radiator cover on the landing.
Cabinet walls
Floor to ceiling, with a cornice and skirting that meet the room.
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Bookcases and libraries
Adjustable shelves, shorter spans for heavy books, with or without lighting.
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Fireplace walls
Around an existing or a new hearth, with a television above and niches alongside.
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Media walls
With a cable channel, ventilation and a dedicated compartment for the set-top box and amplifier.
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Desk units
Top, drawers and cabinets in one piece, even in an alcove or under a sloping ceiling.
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Hallway cupboards
Shallow cupboards with mirror panels, so the passage stays wide and light.
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Cabinets under a sloping ceiling
Where the height runs out: drawers, pull-out units and an open central compartment.
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Display cabinets
Glazed doors, clear or with glazing bars, with lighting on every shelf inside.
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Storage cupboards and alcoves
Using an alcove or recess in full, right up behind the curtain box.
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Radiator covers
In the same finish as the cabinets, with a grille that lets the heat through.
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Dressing rooms and shoe cupboards
Pull-out drawers for shoes, with a layout based on your own wardrobe.
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Cabinets in the bedroom
Cabinets right up to the sloping ceiling, with an open compartment and drawers at eye level.
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Our bespoke work From the skirting right up to the ceiling. No filler strips, no dusty ledge on top of the cabinet, no half door in the corner.
Where made to measure pays off most
The places where made to measure pays off most are rarely the prettiest corners of a home. That is exactly where you gain storage you would otherwise never have.
Place 01
To the left and right of a fireplace there is always half a metre to a metre and a half left over. We fill it with open compartments at book height and closed cupboards below, so the fireplace stays the centrepiece.
Place 02
A cabinet that collides with existing wall panelling always looks added on. We take over the same profiles and the same heights, so the cabinet seems to grow out of the wall.
Place 03
Two cabinet walls meeting in a corner always give a blind metre. With a corner unit with rotating shelves or an angled side panel, that metre stays usable.
Place 04
A hallway eighty centimetres wide looks too narrow for cabinets. A shallow cupboard of 25 to 35 centimetres with flat fronts takes almost nothing from the passage and still delivers a full wall of storage.
Place 05
A cabinet that runs over a doorway or a window turns an ordinary wall into a frame. Above the opening comes a low cupboard, beside it two full columns.
Place 06
A radiator under a window costs you half a wall. A cover with a grille gives you back a bench or a window seat, in the same finish as the cabinets beside it.
Made to measure is not more expensive than buying a cabinet. It is more expensive than buying a cabinet that does not fit.
Materials
Materials
There is no best material, only a right choice for each cabinet. In a hallway that takes a daily beating from pannier bags and school satchels, a melamine front with a laser-edged rim is wiser than a lacquered face. In a living room where a cabinet stays put for fifteen years and the grain is allowed to speak, solid oak or veneer wins. We say so honestly, even when the cheaper choice is the better one.
Nine front materials, each available on the same model. Melamine, biogenic melamine with a binder made from tree bark, ultra matt with a velvet-soft, fingerprint-free top layer, high-gloss acrylic, the classic MDF framed door, flat lacquered MDF, high-gloss lacquer, veneer with a vertical grain and solid wood with a veneered inner panel. The same cabinet model thus becomes country, classic or contemporary without the dimensions changing.
We oil or stain the wood, we do not bleach it. With us oak gets a natural oil or a stain, and where the grain is allowed to speak it is brushed first. In heavily used rooms a matt lacquer goes over the stain. That way the figure of the wood stays visible and the surface stays repairable.
Glass, mirror and leather belong to it as well. We make glazed doors in clear glass, sandblasted glass or with glazing bars in wood or black steel, with lighting on every shelf inside. Mirror panels make a narrow hallway feel wider. Fronts clad in leather come back mostly in desk units and end panels.
The nine front materials
Every sample below shows the same frame-and-panel front in a different material, so you can compare honestly. There are many more front models than this series; in the showroom in Kapellen you can lay them beside your floor and your curtain fabric.
Stains on oak
These are the seventeen stains we apply to oak, each shown on the same frame-and-panel front so you can compare honestly. The same door becomes almost white or almost black without the grain disappearing.
For lacquered fronts the full NCS range is added to that: 2050 colours, in matt, satin or high gloss.
Colour and finish
Colour is the last choice, not the first. We lay the samples out in daylight beside your floor, your curtain fabric and your wall colour, and look at how they read in the evening under artificial light. A colour that looks warm on a small sample can turn cool across eight square metres of cabinet front.
For lacquered fronts the full NCS range applies. That is 2050 colours, each available in matt, satin or high gloss. In practice most people choose an off-white, a soft grey-green or a deep dark blue, but you are not tied to that set.
On oak we work with seventeen stains. From a natural oil that leaves the wood as it is, through limed and sand-coloured tones, to smoked tones that come out almost black. We do not bleach wood with ammonia: we oil or stain, and brush where the grain is allowed to speak.
What can be adapted
Down to the millimetre
We draw the height, width, depth and length to your room. Cabinets up to 2340 millimetres high and 750 millimetres wide per door, with rounded side panels on a ten centimetre radius. The internal layout changes with it.
Free-standing or fitted
The same model as a loose piece of furniture or fully into the wall, with a continuous skirting and a frame that absorbs crooked walls.
Any colour
From natural oil to almost black, or a shade from the full NCS range: 2050 colours, in matt, satin or high gloss.
Any texture
Sanded smooth, brushed with a grain you can feel, or saw-cut. Ultra matt feels velvet-soft and does not hold fingerprints.
Any material
Solid oak, veneer, melamine or lacquered MDF, on the same model and to the same dimensions.
Light inside the cabinet
Lighting per compartment or per shelf, with the wiring and the sockets already drawn on the plan.
The finish
A bespoke cabinet is not judged on the photograph from a distance, but on the joint, the handle and the way a door closes.
Price
What bespoke cabinetry costs
No packages, but a quotation itemised line by line. Every cabinet is different, so we cost them separately. The quotation lists the carcase, the fronts, the layout, the lighting, the electrical work and the installation as separate items. That way you can cut back or add where you choose, and you see straight away what a decision involves. No hidden costs and no extra work without your agreement.
The fee falls away when we carry out the work. If you buy the bespoke work from us, you pay nothing for the survey, the drawing and the 3D. The full arrangement is set out on rates and 3D.
The classes above are relative and are not prices: they show where your choices push the cost. What your cabinets actually cost is set out item by item in the quotation after the survey.
From our own collection
Not every project calls for fitted work. These models are in our online shop and can be adapted in size, colour and finish. Click through for the dimensions and the versions.
Saumur bookcase
Solid oak, with glazed doors and an open central compartment
Provins bookcase
Solid oak, three open bays
Arcade bookcase
White, with three round arches
Jura cabinet
Solid natural oak, four framed doors
Chambord bookcase
White, nine open compartments
Vendôme bookcase
Taupe, narrow, with a closed base unit
Cluny sideboard
Solid oak, two doors and three drawers
Augusta sideboard
Solid oak, three flat doors without handles
Our own workshop Everything comes from the same workshop. That is why your desk unit gets exactly the same colour and the same grain as the cabinet wall in the living room.
Options
Everything that is possible
None of this is automatically part of every project; it depends on your budget and on how you use the room. Say what you want at the design stage and we will draw it in, so you can see straight away what it involves.
Option 01
The television, the audio and the cables in one plane, with floating shelves above and a closed run of cabinets below. The set-top box and amplifier get their own ventilated compartment.
Option 02
The fireplace as the centrepiece, with open compartments at book height and closed cupboards below. The doors beside it can stay open or put everything away.
Option 03
Top, drawers and cabinets in one piece, with cable pass-throughs and sockets inside the cabinet. See also our country cabinets.
Option 04
Timber wall panelling that brings the height of the room into proportion and flows seamlessly into the cabinets. More about that on panelling.
Option 05
A cabinet block that runs through the space as a wall and forms a passage at the same time. Usable from both sides, with a continuous cornice above.
Option 06
A continuous top along the knee wall with cabinets beneath, so an attic becomes a proper study without you hitting your head on the roof.
Opening and closing
The way a cabinet opens determines how clean or how classic it looks. All four are possible on the same front.
The classic image: a knob or a bar handle in metal or in wood, in the colour of the front or deliberately in contrast. On a framed front the handle usually sits on the stile.
A continuous rail above or below the front. You see one horizontal line across the whole cabinet instead of a series of separate handles.
The front continues behind a milled recess. Nothing protrudes, which helps in a narrow hallway you walk past every day.
A light push and the door or drawer springs open. No handle, no recess, a completely flat front. We advise against it on cabinets children lean on.
Bookcases and libraries
Books are heavier than people think. A full metre of paperbacks quickly weighs thirty kilos, a metre of art books twice that. That is why we draw the span shorter as the shelves get deeper, or make the shelf thicker and reinforce it at the back. A bookcase that sags in the middle after two years is not a matter of taste but a miscalculation.
The shelf height follows your own books. We ask you to measure three heights: your lowest row, your ordinary novels and your tallest art books. From that comes a layout with a few tall compartments at the bottom and more even ones above. All shelves stay adjustable, so the bookcase can change along with your collection.
Lighting belongs in the plan, not after it. An LED line behind the front edge of each shelf lights the spines without you seeing the source. That calls for a cable channel in the side panel and a driver with a socket at the back, and therefore a line on the drawing.
In every room
In the living room cabinets are usually the setting for the whole space. A fireplace wall, a library or a low run of cabinets decides where the sofa goes and where the light falls. We draw that wall together with the rest of the room, so the cabinet does not feel detached from the living room around it.
In the bedroom it is mostly the height that counts. Cabinets right up to the ceiling deliver half an extra cabinet, and under a sloping ceiling drawers take over from doors. Where the cabinet sits beside the bed, we allow for a walkway of at least sixty centimetres. For clothing and wardrobe there is a separate page: bespoke dressing room, because that calls for a different layout than storage.
In the hallway and on the landing you gain with depth, not with width. A shallow cupboard of 25 to 35 centimetres over the full length of the wall takes coats, shoes, keys and post without the passage feeling narrower. Flat, handleless fronts keep that wall calm.
In the study or home office it all comes down to cables. A worktop with drawers below, a ventilated cupboard for a printer and a router, and sockets at the back of the cabinet rather than visible on the wall. That last one is the smallest change with the biggest difference.
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Execution
How we work
A conversation about the room, about what has to go in and about your budget. At your home or in the showroom in Kapellen, and free of charge. After that you know what is possible.
We measure up and draw everything out, services included. You see it in photorealistic 3D and can adjust until it is right.
You lay the samples side by side in daylight. Then we fix the front, colour, handle and layout, and the project goes to the workshop.
Old cabinets out, electrics for the lighting, installation and adjustment, in the right order and by our own team.
Wood moves in the first year. We come back to adjust doors and drawers whenever that is needed.
Where we work
Our showroom is in Kapellen, but we come to you. The survey always happens on site, because drawing a cabinet from dimensions somebody else passed on is asking for trouble. We install throughout the province of Antwerp, in Brussels and Flemish Brabant, in East and West Flanders, in Limburg and across the border in the Netherlands.
The samples travel to you. You do not have to come to the showroom first in order to start. On the first visit we bring fronts, stains and colour samples with us, so you can lay them straight beside your own floor and in your own light. If you want to see the full range, you are welcome in Kapellen by appointment.
We work for private homes as much as for offices and shops. The same drawing and the same workshop, different demands: in a practice or a shop, wear resistance and upkeep count for more than the grain of the wood, and that shows in the choice of materials.
No idea yet what you want
Most people walk in with a feeling and a few photographs, not with a plan. That is enough. On the basis of that conversation we draw several proposals for the same wall, in photorealistic 3D, so you can compare instead of having to imagine.
We draw the same wall in several directions: fully closed, half open or with glass. You choose the one that stays with you.
Every proposal comes as a photorealistic image, with the real materials in it. That way you see the difference instead of having to imagine it.
Revisions are part of the process. As long as the design stage runs and you have us carry out the work, you pay no design fee.
Have you already seen something on Pinterest or made something yourself with AI? Send it through the form and we will start from there.
Beyond this room
Everything you see here, we draw and install ourselves. Click through to the room or the service you are looking for.
Complete interior
The entire home in one design and one schedule.
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Kitchens
Cabinets, worktop and appliances matched to each other.
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Bathrooms
Vanity unit, sanitary ware, tiles and services in one plan.
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Living room
Seating, fireplace and cabinetry drawn as one whole.
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Bedrooms
Bed, cabinetry and lighting as one whole.
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Dining room
Table, chairs and light in the right proportion.
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Dressing room
Laid out around your wardrobe, right down to the drawer.
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Renovation
From shell to finish, with one point of contact.
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Curtains
Measured, sewn to size and installed by us.
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Bespoke rugs
Cut to size and edged, in wool or synthetic.
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Poles and tracks
The fixing that suits the fabric and the window.
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Tiebacks
The detail that gives a curtain its shape.
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Lighting
Light per zone, separately switched and dimmable.
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Shutters and blinds
Controlling light without losing the view.
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Smart home
Lighting, curtains and heating on one system.
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Roof terraces
Fitting out the outside with the same care as the inside.
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Hotel interiors
Rooms and a lobby that stand up to daily use.
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Restaurant interiors
Atmosphere, acoustics and durability considered together.
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Where it usually goes wrong
These are the things we come across most often in cabinets drawn elsewhere.
Above the cabinet half a metre of dust settles. Taking it to the ceiling is worth half a cabinet in storage, and the room looks taller.
In a corner or beside a door frame a hinged door never opens fully. You see that on the drawing, not in the shop.
A standard cabinet rarely ends where the wall ends. We draw right into the corner, with a frame that absorbs crooked walls and without battens in between.
Adding lighting, a charging point or a set-top box afterwards means a cable across the floor. We put it on the plan.
A shelf more than a hundred centimetres long sags under books. A dividing panel or a thicker shelf solves that before anything is built.
Where a cabinet meets an existing skirting, a gap appears. We take the skirting into the drawing or let the cabinet meet it cleanly.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Everything comes from our own workshop and is installed by our own team. That is why we can handle any size, any angle and any height, and the finish stays the same throughout your home.
Yes, and usually that is the intention: it gives you half an extra cabinet and the room looks taller. Cabinets can be up to 2340 millimetres high in one piece; above that we work with a top box or an infill. Where the ceiling is not level, we absorb the difference with a cornice.
Up to 750 millimetres per door. Wider is not advised, because the hinge then carries too much load and the door drops over time. For wider openings we draw two doors or a sliding door.
Yes. A door to the utility room or to an adjoining room can disappear entirely into the cabinet wall, with the same front and the same joint width as the cabinet doors beside it.
Nine front materials: melamine, biogenic melamine, ultra matt, high-gloss acrylic, MDF framed door, lacquered MDF, high-gloss lacquer, veneer and solid wood. Lacquer in 2050 NCS colours, seventeen stains on oak, plus glass, mirror, steel and leather. There are moreover more front models than the series shown on this page.
That depends on the running metre, the height, the front and the layout. We deliberately give no guide figure for it, because every room is different. At the first conversation we work it out for you free of charge and you receive a quotation with every item listed separately.
No, when you have the bespoke work carried out by us. The first conversation, the survey, the technical drawing and the photorealistic 3D then carry no fee. The arrangement is set out in full on rates and 3D.
Yes, that is precisely where made to measure pays off most. Under a sloping ceiling we work with drawers and pull-out units on the low side and with full columns where the height returns. Beams, pipework and flues are taken into account in the survey.
Yes. LED lighting per compartment or behind the front edge of each shelf, with the wiring in the side panel and the driver with a socket inside the cabinet. It does have to be on the plan, though, because electrical work goes with it.
A dressing room is set up for clothing and wardrobe: hanging rails, compartmented drawers, shoe racks and mirrors. Bespoke cabinetry is about storage, books, tableware, files and equipment. The construction is the same, the layout is not. More about that on bespoke dressing room.
Usually, yes. We come and look at whether the existing carcase and front can be matched. If they cannot, we say so honestly, because an added unit that is even slightly off always shows.
That varies too much from project to project to put a period on it here: it depends on the material, the scale and the site schedule. The quotation states item by item which timing we agree for your project.
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