The studio
Stave takes on a small number of projects each year. This allows the founders to stay close to every project, from first conversation to final installation, and the workshop has the time good joinery needs.
Kitchens from £35,000.
The workshop also takes on smaller pieces of joinery — fitted cupboards, vanity units, doors, window seats. Quoted on enquiry.
The process
We work in three stages.
First, a short, no-obligation conversation to understand your project and see whether we’re the right fit.
Then a paid design consultation (£350, credited to your project), where we go into how you live and start shaping a brief.
From there, we move into full design development, material specification, and project management through to installation — handled by our studio in close partnership with Marcin’s workshop.
A kitchen is one of the most decision-dense projects a household will undertake.
Hundreds of choices — layout, materials, colour, hardware, appliances, dimensions, finishes — made over several months, often in parallel with the rest of a renovation.
We've built our consultation around that reality. For clients who think visually, who want to be involved in the detail, who carry a heavy mental load — and for clients with ADHD, autism or other neurodevelopmental differences — pacing and structure matter.
We practise neuroaffirmatively throughout. This is means things will always be transparent, structured and straightforward.
In practice, that means:
We are open about expected price from the first consultation.
An agenda sent before every meeting, and a written summary within a week.
Defined decision points — the layout locked by week two, materials by week four, joinery details by week six.
Sessions that can be split, lengthened, or held at your home if that suits better.
One named point of contact, so you aren't managing parallel conversations.
Your ideas, references and opinions treated as material to work with.
Where an occupational therapist, architect or clinician has made recommendations for the home — sensory, motor, or executive function — we work from them directly. Bring whoever you've worked with into the conversation.
The approach is informed by published neuroaffirmative clinical practice. We run a kitchen consultation process that respects how people think.
A line spotted at King's Cross, outside Central Saint Martins. It happens to describe how we run a consultation: you can stop, change direction or revisit a decision.Image: Self Space installation at King's Cross, outside Central Saint Martins.