The choices behind a great kitchen.

01

Design style

Traditional & Shaker

Best for: Period homes · classic family kitchens

The five-piece shaker door and the traditional in-frame kitchen are the enduring British look — clean lines, honest proportions and a charm that ages well rather than dating. Painted in a colour of your choosing, they suit older Solihull homes and modern extensions alike. Deep navy is a perennial favourite, and it pairs beautifully with a bold marbled worktop for a kitchen with real presence.

• Timeless charm
• Painted any colour
• Period or modern

02

Design style

Contemporary & Handleless

Best for: Extensions · open-plan · modern homes

For a sleeker, more architectural look, handleless cabinetry gives you an uninterrupted run with no hardware to catch — either a grooved rail or a slim recessed edge. It's the natural choice for open-plan and extended kitchens, and works especially well in warm greys and anthracite mixed with timber tones. Most of the recent kitchens we've fitted around Solihull sit in this contemporary, handleless family.

• Sleek & seamless
• Warm greys & anthracite
• Great for open-plan

03

Design style

Minimalist & Rustic

Best for: Pared-back or characterful looks

We design across the full spectrum — from pared-back minimalist kitchens where the joinery does the talking, to warm rustic schemes with timber grain and characterful finishes. The point is that you aren't boxed into one house style: Steve will steer you toward what genuinely suits your room and how you live, whether that's clean and quiet or warm and lived-in.

• Minimalist or warm
• Suited to your home
• Honest materials

04

Worktop

Quartz Worktops

Best for: Busy family kitchens · low maintenance

Engineered quartz is the most popular worktop we fit, and for good reason: it's non-porous so it doesn't need sealing, shrugs off everyday spills, and comes in everything from crisp whites to deep veined marbles. Hard-wearing and easy to live with — the sensible choice for a kitchen that gets properly used.

• No sealing needed
• Stain-resistant
• Huge range of looks

05

Worktop

Marbled & Stone Surfaces

Best for: Statement kitchens · real character

For a kitchen with genuine drama, a boldly veined marbled stone worktop is hard to beat — no two slabs are the same, and the movement in the surface becomes the centrepiece of the room. We've fitted striking blue-and-white marbled worktops that lift a navy shaker kitchen completely. We'll advise where a statement stone earns its place and where a calmer surface makes more sense.

• One-of-a-kind veining
• A real centrepiece
• Templated & fitted

06

Flooring

Flooring

Best for: Tying the whole kitchen together

A kitchen is only finished when the floor is right, so we supply and lay it as part of the job — stone, luxury vinyl, laminate and solid hardwood. Herringbone LVT and warm timber tones are firm favourites for the way they warm up a scheme, while stone and slate-tone tiles suit busier, harder-working spaces. Chosen to work with the cabinetry and laid cleanly so the whole room reads as one.

• Stone, LVT, laminate, timber
• Herringbone a favourite
• Supplied & laid

07

The details

Splashbacks & Tiling

Best for: Pulling the run together

A splashback is a small area that pulls a whole kitchen together, so we treat it as part of the design rather than an afterthought. Classic metro tiles in white or grey, marbled stone panels that echo the worktop, or a clean tiled run — supplied and fitted alongside the cabinetry so the finished wall reads as one considered piece.

• Metro or stone
• Matched to the worktop
• Fitted in-house

08

The details

Carpentry & Finishing

Best for: The joinery that makes it feel finished

Because Steve is a carpenter first, the finishing is where a Kitchens of Solihull job stands out — door hanging, skirting and architrave, bespoke shelving and the fiddly detailing that ties a room together. It's the part clients name him for in their reviews, and it's what turns a set of units into a kitchen that feels properly built rather than just installed.

• Doors, skirting, architrave
• Bespoke shelving
• The finishing touch