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Walnut-veneered plywood storage wall with bookshelves and yellow drawers in a mid-century style living room
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Our integrated design, workshop and installation team has been transforming homes with fitted furniture for years.

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Read our Journal for product advice, design guides and stories from our Uncommon friends.

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How to plan your new kitchen project with us

How to plan your new kitchen project with us

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Ten reasons to choose Uncommon Projects

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Sophie Smallhorn with the Combination Table, her modular plywood furniture collaboration with Uncommon Projects

Combination table: Our new collaboration with Sophie Smallhorn

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    Archmongers founders Johan Hybschmann and Margaret Bursa seated together at a table in a contemporary interior.

How to start a home renovation: an interview with Archmongers

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Interior designer Kate Guinness sitting on a colourful rag rug beside a striped armchair in a blue-walled period room

How to refurbish a period home: lessons from an interior designer

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Edd Kimber in his bespoke plywood kitchen by Uncommon Projects

The Boy Who Bakes: At home with Edd Kimber

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White and oak plywood kitchen by Uncommon Projects with open shelving and exposed ply detailing

Why all our kitchens are made from plywood

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An introduction to our kitchen styles

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Walnut-veneered plywood storage wall with bookshelves and yellow drawers in a mid-century style living room

Beyond the kitchen: bespoke fitted furniture for every room

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Light-filled Core plywood kitchen by Uncommon Projects with white cabinetry, oak veneer and integrated handles

Bespoke vs Core: which kitchen is right for you?

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Edd Kimber‘s kitchen gift guide

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Blue plywood kitchen by Uncommon Projects in a light-filled family home

What we stand for: the story behind Uncommon Projects

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Every Uncommon project is unique. Our Case studies tell the full story of the homes we’ve transformed.

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Core cabinetry fits perfectly in this Victorian rear return

Situated in the rear return of an East London flat, this cool, contemporary kitchen demonstrates Uncommon’s Core system, an ‘almost-bespoke’ modular range utilising parametric cabinet designs for a more affordable project. Each unit can be custom sized to ensure a perfect fit, crucial in a Victorian property with its original chimney breast still in place. The challenge was to work with, rather than around, this feature, making sure it never felt like an obstacle that compromised the design.

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The Sourcebook is our take on what’s worth specifying. A trusted shortlist to help you cut through the noise.

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Brand
Location
Website
Home appliances
Siemens
Worldwide
siemens.com
Siemens, Neff and Bosch are all made in the same factory by the BSH Group. Their products are essentially the same, but Siemens tend to have the new innovations first. We also prefer how their ovens look.
Furniture
Isokon
UK
isokonplus.com
Classic early 20th century plywood furniture designed by the likes of Marcel Breuer and Ernst Race. Hugely important in the history of plywood furniture in the UK. Comtemporary designs by Barber Oscerby and Jasper Morrison.
Tiles
Mandarin Stone
Nationwide
mandarinstone.com
We love their broad, tactile range of stone and porcelain tiles — solid, reliable materials backed by practical, responsive support.
Art & Design
Things you can Buy/Modernist Estates
London
thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk
Things You Can Buy is a range of products designed and produced by designer and writer Stefi Orazi. Kit out your kitchen with her beautiful screen printed tea towels, or buy her architectural walking guides to explore areas like the Span Estate in Blackheath, or the Modernist Estates of Bloomsbury.
Tiles
Material Plans
Clerkenwell
materialplans.com
UK distributor of tiles by dutch manufacturer of Mosa. They have a huge range of classic simple tiles in a large range of colours.