Started 1989 by brothers-in-law Paul Hogan and Bill Fox, in a friend’s back room. Today they are still the only two directors on the register. Just fifty kitchens a year, no exceptions, every one drawn at the Turner Street studio, machined and sprayed downstairs in the workshop, then fitted by the same craftsmen who built it.
Design, make, fit, and the room beyond the kitchen. The same five-person team runs every stage, every time.
A collaborative design service across multiple visits. Survey at your house, plans developed in the Turner Street studio, paint swatches and door samples laid against the room. Most clients meet the bench team before signing the quote. Four to six weeks from first sketch to confirmed drawings.
Doors, frames, drawer boxes, end panels and worktops machined and finished in the Newport workshop. Painted in our own spray booth, so Farrow and Ball, Little Greene and Mylands colours match without subcontract. Solid oak in-frame, walnut, painted hardwood. The same craftsmen who build it bring it in the van.
Cymru fitters install every kitchen we make. Same team start to finish, no subcontracted last mile. Cabinetry first, worktops template-cut once the boxes are in. A snagging visit two weeks after sign-off, then a courtesy check at six months.
Bedrooms, bathrooms, laundries, home bars, garden rooms, library shelving. If it is bespoke and joined, the workshop is set up for it. Most repeat clients come back for a second room within eighteen months.
Every one designed, made and fitted by the Turner Street team. Drag any caption open for the materials breakdown.
Paul Hogan and Bill Fox, both from Chepstow, started Cymru Kitchens in 1989 in the back room of a friend’s house. Three years later they had outgrown it and moved the bench across the bridge to the Old Mineral Water Factory in Newport. The brief from day one was small numbers, solid hardwood, and a cap on the year.
Thirty-seven years later, the same two directors. Paul as Managing Director, Bill as Director and Company Secretary. Same Newport workshop. Five craftsmen at the bench. Just fifty bespoke kitchens a year, no exceptions. Many of our customers are still enjoying their Cymru kitchens twenty years on; the cabinets get repainted, the hardware gets refreshed, the joinery stays.
“The kitchen looks sensational. Once again, thank you to you and all your colleagues, it has been such a wonderful experience working with you all, a fantastic company that we will recommend at any given opportunity.” Mr and Mrs Webb, Cardiff
Most bespoke kitchen makers in the UK now build a modular carcass and apply the door front on top. Quicker to make, faster to ship, but the door sits proud of the cabinet face. Visually fine. Joinery-wise, a shortcut.
The traditional method, the one Cymru has held since 1989, is in-frame. Each door is set inside a solid hardwood frame that is structurally part of the cabinet front. The frame shows around every door. The joinery is visible. The build is roughly thirty percent slower. Pair it with painted hardwood, brass cup handles and a fumed-oak interior, and the kitchen reads as cabinetry, not flat-pack.
Excludes appliances and other trade works (electrician, plumber, plastering, painting). Most clients land between £35,000 and £60,000 depending on the size of the room, the finish, and whether you want walnut or oak inside the cabinets. The number on the quote is the number on the invoice.
The showroom and the workshop share the building. If you book ahead we walk you through both, in that order: showroom kitchens upstairs, then the bench downstairs where the current week of work is sitting. Most clients ask, and the bench tour is the part they remember.
Or email a photo of the room to info@cymrukitchens.com. We confirm appointments within one working day.
Old Mineral Water Factory
Turner Street
Newport NP19 7BA
Phone · 01633 676767
Email · info@cymrukitchens.com
Park · on-street outside the factory; ten minutes walk from Newport rail.
By car · M4 J24 or J25, five minutes either way.
Saturdays are by appointment. We keep the showroom closed to walk-ins on Saturday so whoever has booked has the team undivided. Workshop tours included with every booked Saturday slot.
Ten to fourteen weeks from final design approval. Four to six weeks of design and survey before that, depending on how many revisions you want. The bench schedule sets the start date, not the showroom. We cap the year at fifty kitchens so the bench can hold the dates.
From around £30,000 for design, manufacture and installation, excluding appliances and other trade works (electrician, plumber, plastering). The number on the quote is the number on the invoice. Most clients land between £35,000 and £60,000 depending on the size of the room, the finish, and whether you want walnut or oak inside the cabinets.
Every door, every frame, every drawer box is machined and sprayed in the Turner Street workshop. Worktops are template-cut on site by our own fitters from quartz, granite or solid timber. The carcasses are the only component that may come from a trade supplier, and we name the supplier in the quote.
Solid hardwood in-frame in oak, walnut and ash. Painted hardwood with the door colour matched in-house to a named manufacturer: Farrow and Ball, Little Greene, Paint and Paper Library or Mylands. Quartz, granite or solid timber for worktops. Brass, polished nickel, brushed nickel, polished chrome or antique bronze for hardware. The showroom keeps door samples and worktop offcuts in stock so you can lay the finish against the room.
Many of our customers are still enjoying their Cymru Kitchens twenty years later. Painted hardwood can be repainted in the workshop, hardware can be replaced, doors can be refitted on the existing frames. It is the cabinet that ages well; the surface is renewable.
Because the same five craftsmen design, make and fit every one. The number is the cap that keeps it that way. Take fifty-one and the cap breaks. We would rather refuse a brief in November than make a kitchen we could not come back to look at in twenty years.
