CLASSIC ENGLISH KITCHENS
UNPARALLELED CRAFTSMANSHIP
CLASSIC ENGLISH KITCHENS FOR YOUR UNIQUE HOME
Our classic English kitchens are built from globally sourced quality natural solid woods and stone selections for a stunning yet timeless aesthetic. Our founder, Ben Rollings, has over 150 years of heritage craftsmanship, leading our team of master cabinetmakers and industry-leading designers. This allows us to create handcrafted bespoke kitchens that are founded in traditional joinery techniques, enhanced by modern methods, for a finish where classic English design meets unparalleled craftsmanship – a space designed specifically for you, your individual home’s character and how you live within it.
SUCCESS STORIES
The Lakes By Yoo House
This beautiful property, located just outside The Cotswolds, featured handcrafted silhouette-stained oak cabinetry, bronze inlays, and hand-selected bronze hardware, each adding warmth against the oak's cool tones. Himalaya Crystal Neolith worktops keep the design understated but cohesive with the kitchen’s overall aesthetic and align with the client’s unique daily routine.
The Gilbert Scott Residence
Step inside the Gilbert Scott residence, where rich Royal Peacock stone, walnut accents, and warm tones come together to create a space tailored specifically to the client’s taste and lifestyle. A whole-home project featuring handcrafted cabinetry unique to every room, creating a warm yet elegant space that’s made specifically for you and designed to feel like home the moment you walk in.
“I can’t think of a time when I have worked with a more professional and informative company. After carrying out extensive research, I contacted HauHau with a strong vision of our kitchen. I met Ben, and we discussed our dream kitchen. After the initial meeting, Ben contacted us asking questions and giving options, and then a short time after that, we were presented with drawings and visuals that far exceeded our expectations.”
— Ralph
BESPOKE CLASSIC ENGLISH KITCHEN DESIGN
Your home deserves a design that honours the beauty of traditional cabinetmaking and heritage design elements for a charming classic English kitchen.
Ben Rollings, our fourth-generation master cabinetmaker with over 150 years of family heritage, leads every project from our Old Harlow workshop near the Hertfordshire and London border. No templates. No compromises. We work with you to understand your tastes and preferences, exactly how you live in your space, and what your desired end vision is, then handcraft a design that is built uniquely for you.
We create kitchens that feel rich, authentic and capture the timeless English seething yet ensure your space functions seamlessly and meets the demands of modern daily life.
TIMELESS ENGLISH DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Classic English kitchen design requires understanding proportion, symmetry, and restraint. Handcrafted bespoke cabinetry adds character and depth, made from hand-selected solid woods and unmatched craftsmanship, with hand-finished detailing that achieves the traditional English aesthetic. Warm, muted colour palettes maintain the space’s rustic charm, perhaps complemented by a secondary understated tone on the kitchen island for a truly beautiful finish.
Period features in your home can help inform design decisions, ensuring we create a kitchen that respects its unique architectural features and heritage, elevating these elements rather than working against them.
HANDCRAFTED ENGLISH CABINETRY
One master craftsman handles your entire project, ensuring our heritage joinery expertise translates into designs of lasting quality. Hand-selected hardware reflects classic English refinement, and hand-finished surfaces achieve depth and richness that reflect traditional craftsmanship standards.
Our Old Harlow workshop operates on principles passed through four generations of English cabinetmakers. Traditional techniques ensure your cabinetry honours heritage methods whilst meeting the demands of contemporary lifestyle. Quality checkpoints at every stage maintain standards that define classic English craftsmanship, reflecting our unwavering attention to detail and dedication to excellence.
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Stunning Veined Natural Stone Selections
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Bolection Molded Mocha Stained American Black Walnut Cabinetry
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Expert Lighting Design
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Fumed Oak Cabinetry With Backlit Reeded Glass Door Fronts
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Hand-Selected Complementary Hardware
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Hand-Crafted In-Built Wine-Coolers & Wine Storage
THE HAUHAU DESIGN PROCESS
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Our expert design team will take your initial concepts and elevate them beyond your wildest dreams, guiding you through every step of the process as we make it a reality.
Our philosophy is to work in close partnership with our clients, providing creative and innovative solutions through genuine collaboration and careful consideration of your needs and desires.
Once we receive your inquiry, we will contact you to introduce ourselves and discuss the outline of your project. Along with your ideas and brief, we will require a plan to work from. This can be in the form of your architect’s drawings or, if there is a physical space, ideally a visit to your residence to carry out a survey.
Following this process we can begin to prepare your design.
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After our first consultation, our expert design team will work on your concept, developing, enhancing, and elevating it beyond your expectations into a truly remarkable design.
From our initial sketches, we will prepare full working CAD drawings along with visuals, palettes, and material choices—from your primary finish through to your internal colorway—for your review.
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Once you have commissioned HAUHAU for your project, we will finalize any changes you may wish to make to your design, appliance list, material choices, and then proceed to contract your order.
At this stage we will engage with your contractors, and any other parties involved with your project to provide the relevant information they require (along with mechanical and electrical working drawings) and will remain in constant communication with them to monitor your schedule, ensuring everything stays on track.
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Your order will now enter production in our workshop.
We pride ourselves on the meticulous quality of craftsmanship achieved by our expert cabinet makers.
The HAUHAU workshop is not a production line.
Every project is assigned to one maker at a time, who crafts and hand-makes every aspect of your order to exacting standards by combining cutting-edge technology with the most exquisite of materials.
It is in this way that we have truly set ourselves apart and surpassed the industry with our standard.
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Now it is time for your design to become a reality!
After diligently managing your project's schedule to ensure a smooth and on-time fulfillment, HAUHAU will deliver and install your furniture to the very highest standard while ensuring the utmost consideration for your residence.
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On completion of your new kitchen, we arrange for renowned chef Elliot Johnson-Paul of JP Dining to come in and prepare a complimentary private dining experience in your new space to ensure you truly experience every aspect in its full glory.
Simply sit back, relax, and enjoy your new HAUHAU kitchen.
ONLY THE FINEST MATERIALS
HAUHAU sources only the finest materials available, prioritising quality, longevity, and inherent natural beauty for your classic English kitchen. Our commitment to quality begins with material selection.
Natural stone selections are hand-selected for individual character and consideration of how it works with the overall kitchen design, ensuring your worktops and surfaces display only the finest pieces and natural patterns whilst providing generations of reliable performance and maintaining the classic English aesthetic.
Our hardwoods are hand-selected for their quality and character. Rich American walnut is known for its chocolate undertones and striking grain patterns. Natural oak is perfect for accepting different treatment methods, such as fuming, steaming, or staining, allowing us to create authentic classic designs with timeless traditional aesthetics.
Each hardware element is thoughtfully chosen to provide tonal variation through accented notes of anything from brushed bronze to antique brass, adding depth and warmth to your unique space whilst ensuring it meets our rigorous quality standards.
HERITAGE CRAFTSMANSHIP STANDARDS
INDIVIDUAL ARTISAN ASSIGNMENT
Every HAUHAU bespoke kitchen project is entrusted to a single master craftsman who assumes personal responsibility for quality and consistency. This focused attention ensures subtle refinements and meticulous execution that distinguishes HAUHAU as exceptional, in contrast to the everyday.
FOURTH-GENERATION EXCELLENCE
Founded by Ben Rollings, whose family heritage spans over 150 years of master cabinetmaking, HAUHAU delivers unparalleled expertise to every commission. This legacy of excellence has created breath-taking kitchens for royalty, celebrated chefs, and connoisseurs who accept nothing less than perfection.
TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES ENHANCED
Our workshops combine joinery techniques taught across four generations of family cabinetmaker legacy with an undying dedication to excellence. Hand-cut dovetail joints provide structural integrity for generations, whilst modern finishing techniques ensure protection against demanding kitchen environments and intensive daily use.
OUR DESIGN PROCESS
Our process begins with working with you to understand exactly what your desired outcome is. This information shapes our approach, ensuring your kitchen complements rather than competes with your home's character and architecture.
Design development involves constant refinement. From our initial sketches, we will prepare full working CAD drawings along with visuals, palettes, and material choices. Initial concepts evolve through collaboration, with each revision bringing us closer to perfection. Nothing proceeds until you're completely satisfied.
COMPLETE HOME TRANSFORMATION
Quality demands consistency throughout your home. HAUHAU extends beyond kitchen design to create cohesive luxury interiors across your home. This includes designing bespoke solutions for your bedroom, bathroom, living room, home cinema, and home office, and even offering bespoke services for dressing rooms and home bars.
Your kitchen sets the standard—every other space must match its quality and attention to detail.
INSTALLATION AND CARE
During installation, our team approaches your residence with unmatched attention to detail and expert precision. All aspects are designed specifically with your home’s existing architecture in mind, ensuring seamless integration and aesthetic cohesion.
Rural access considerations and your unique lifestyle requirements shape installation scheduling, and everything is done to make the entire process as stress-free as possible.
BALANCING CLASSIC AESTHETICS WITH MODERN LIVING
Classic English design need not compromise on the contemporary conveniences of daily life. Professional-grade appliances integrate discreetly, hand-crafted wine storage serves modern entertaining needs and expert lighting design layers warmth throughout your design while highlighting its unique architectural details.
Your space could feature full-height walk-in pantries with marble shelving and focal walls, providing extra storage within your classic English kitchen. Bespoke kitchen islands anchor the entire space, with natural materials and neutral colour palettes keeping the traditional aesthetic.
THE HAUHAU DIFFERENCE
Throughout this home, every detail was designed with purpose and pride. Good design is more than just how something looks—it’s about how it makes you feel. Whilst working across several rooms in the house, we focused on creating continuity from room to room—whether it’s Silhouette stained oak tones shifting subtly, leather linings maintaining the luxurious standards, or bronze details carrying over the warm undertones, our only goal is to create a truly unique design for each and every client whilst demonstrating HAUHAU’S dedication to excellence, skilled craftsmanship, and unmatched quality designs.
YOUR PRIVATE CHEF EXPERIENCE
We know that our clients deserve the very best from their new kitchen. This is why, after every kitchen installation, we arrange for renowned chef Elliot Johnson-Paul of JP Dining to come in and prepare a complimentary private dining experience for up to 10 guests in your new space, to ensure you truly experience every aspect in its full glory.
WHY HAUHAU DEFINES CLASSIC ENGLISH KITCHEN DESIGN
Founded by Ben Rollings, a fourth-generation master cabinet maker with over 150 years of family heritage, HAUHAU has become synonymous with timeless craftsmanship and design excellence. Building on this legacy, we bring our expertise to bespoke luxury kitchens—spaces that balance precision and design innovation, and work to understand how each client lives in their home.
At HAUHAU, we design kitchens that honour the character of period homes while embracing the possibilities of contemporary living. Every project is tailored to the property and the people who use it, blending architectural sensitivity with hand-selected materials and meticulous detailing to create a kitchen that feels both functional and effortlessly elegant.
From the first sketch to final installation, our team ensures a seamless, collaborative process, delivering not just a kitchen but a thoughtfully crafted environment where daily routines and special moments alike are elevated.
Contact HAUHAU today to arrange a personalised kitchen design consultation and discover how our craftsmanship can redefine the heart of your home.