If bathroom worktop fitting in Roehampton is on your list this year, the useful starting point is not the colour but the shape of the room. The postwar estate flats have small standardised kitchens, typically 2m by 3m, with services boxed at one end and a fixed sink and cooker position, so refits are straight runs with a return. The older village properties and the cottage estate houses have conventional rear kitchens with more scope for an L or a small peninsula. Bring us the problem rather than the diagnosis. Working out what you have got is the first thing we do.
Windows sit in deep concrete reveals with a cast sill, and that reveal is usually the least square thing in the room. Ventilation, heating and lighting all compete for the same short stretch of wall, so by the time the surface is drawn the room has already been argued over once. Nothing about a vanity is standard except the depth of the unit.
The chimney breast in the kitchen served a back boiler behind the living room fire, so the flue is a shared one and the breast is deeper than a fireplace would need. Bathrooms in this stock are compact, squarely built and take a short vanity that will come out of almost any offcut, which makes them among the cheapest bathroom tops we cut. A rear addition bathroom is cold, narrow and full of pipework.
What turns up behind the front walls here is 1950s modernist slab and point block, Interwar cottage estate and Roehampton village Georgian and Victorian. What the units are screwed to varies between them, and that decides the fixings.
Figures cover the 3 statistical areas (MSOAs) around Roehampton| Figure | Roehampton | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 3% | pre-1919 share lower than 84% of the 723 areas we cover | Corners tend to come in close to square. |
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| flats and maisonettes | 76% | flat share higher than 71% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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| households in a converted or shared house | 2% | converted-house share lower than 81% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOAs E02000935, E02000938 and E02000945. Open Government Licence v3.0.