Battersea Park worktops
The kitchens we meet in Battersea Park
Before we quote any of the worktop jobs in Battersea Park we want to know what the kitchen actually is, because the answer changes more than the price. Mansion flats facing the park have kitchens carved from original service rooms, deep but narrow, with a run down one wall and a tall larder unit where the old scullery door was. Owners commonly open the kitchen to a reception room, which puts a peninsula in the structural opening. The tape measure decides it, not the description above, and not anything anybody says over the telephone.
The communal stair is stone with a cast iron balustrade, and the winders leave very little room to turn a long piece. Finish counts as much as colour once the light in a room is poor, because a polish hands every reflection back to you and a honed face quietly absorbs them. Stone is bought whole and paid for whole, offcut and all.
Walls are solid brick with lime plaster and a hard skim over the top, and that skim comes away in sheets when old tiles are taken back. The kitchen in one of these flats is often internal or single-aspect, and in a room that never gets direct light a pale face with a soft finish is worth more than any amount of colour. True walls and standard carcasses give the best yield there is.
What the rooms sit inside, mostly, is Edwardian mansion block, Victorian villa and Interwar purpose-built flat. That mix is why two jobs on the same road can run completely differently.
