Kitchen guide
An extension is the best chance to get the kitchen layout exactly right, because pipes, cables and ducting can go wherever the plan needs them. The trick is planning the kitchen early and ordering the cabinets at the right time.
1 · Plan early
Decide the kitchen layout while the extension is still on paper. Your builder, plumber and electrician need it to put services in the right place. Send us your architect's drawings and we can plan and price the cabinets from them, then confirm sizes once the room is built.
2 · Measure the finished room
Rooms are never built exactly to the drawing. Once the walls are plastered and the floor is screeded, measure the actual room using our measuring guide and send us the final sizes. We update the drawings and you approve them before we make anything.
Underfloor heating? Tell your fitter. Cabinet legs and plinths sit on the finished floor, and fixings must avoid the pipes.
3 · Order at the right time
Kitchens take us 2 to 3 weeks to make once the drawings are approved and the deposit has cleared. Most people order when the extension is watertight and plastered, so the cabinets arrive when the room is dry and the floor is down.
Plaster and screed need time to dry before cabinets go in. Ask your builder when the room will be ready for the fitter, and plan the delivery for then.
4 · Open-plan living
Extensions are often kitchen, dining and living space in one. Because we make every cabinet to measure, the same board and doors can carry on into a pantry, utility, boot room, home office or media wall, so the whole space matches.
Checklist
Buying from DTJ
Kitchen guide
The order things happen in, who does what, and how long each stage takes.
Before you order
How to measure a kitchen, bedroom or alcove so the cabinets fit first time.
Buying from DTJ
Measure, quote, deposit, make, deliver, and your joiner fits. Six steps from your sizes to a finished room.
Supply only
We make it, you or your joiner fits it. What supply-only means and what comes in an order.
See it first
Board decor and door samples, £10 each and taken off your kitchen or bedroom order. Collect them from the workshop, or we post them in 3 to 5 working days.
Get a quote
Send us your architect’s drawings at info@dtjinteriors.co.uk, call 0115 784 8231 or WhatsApp 07956 032306, and we will plan and price the kitchen.
DTJ Interiors Ltd
Unit 5 Atlas Mills, Birchwood Avenue
Long Eaton, NG10 3ND
Workshop and collection
Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm
Delivery across the East Midlands for £99 + VAT, and further afield priced per job.
DTJ Interiors Limited · Company no. 15242186 · VAT GB460641310
Registered office: The Mills, Canal Street, Derby DE1 2RJ
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