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Sheet 01 of 08Scale 1:20 @ A1Date — 08 · 2026Drawn — H&V

Harlow & Vane

Bespoke Kitchens — Ilkley — Sheet 01

A kitchen drawn once, properly — then built exactly, and only, as drawn.

Sheet 02 — the promise, drawn
Finished handleless kitchen in a gritstone Victorian house, grey morning light falling across a honed limestone worktop with the moor visible through a sash window
Fig. 01 — Kitchen at 08:00, IlkleyHoned limestone · Oak · Gritstone light

Sheet 02 — Sketch to room

The line becomes the cabinet.

Keep reading — the elevation below is built as you scroll.

Pencil elevation of a pantry kitchen at 1:20 on trace paper, with dimension lines, graphite hatching and a drafted title block The built pantry kitchen photographed square-on from the same viewpoint as its pencil elevation, oak and honed stone in cool daylight

Elevation B — Pantry, 1:20

The Pantry at Middleton — Ilkley

Signed at the drawing in spring; fitted in autumn. The figure on this sheet was the figure on the final invoice — the price is fixed at drawing sign-off, and it does not move.

Sheet 03 — Two disciplines

Two answers to the same question, drawn by the same hand.

Handleless and shaker are not styles to choose from a book. They are two disciplines, and each demands something different of the maker. Most houses in Wharfedale are quietly asking for one of them.

A hand resting on the routed edge of a handleless drawer front, the shadow gap running true across matt cabinetry
Detail 01 — Shadow gap, 1:5

The Unbroken Line — handleless

A handleless kitchen has nowhere to hide. The shadow gap must run true to a millimetre over five metres of cabinetry, because the eye travels the whole line without interruption — the line is the design. We draw handleless kitchens in Ilkley for rooms that want stillness: honed stone, unbroken oak, the light left to do the work.

A limewash-painted shaker door in raking light, the frame and recessed panel casting a soft shadow that shows their depth
Detail 02 — Stile & panel, 1:5

The Framed Panel — shaker

A shaker door is a frame holding a panel, and everything rests on proportion: the width of the stile, the depth of the field, the shadow the frame throws at nine in the morning. As shaker kitchen designers working across Yorkshire, we draw the frame to answer the house — the sash windows, the flagged floor, the rooms it already has.

Unsure which the house is asking for? We will come and look at the room

Sheet 04 — The drawing set

How a kitchen happens here.

Four sheets, in the order the work is actually done. One named designer holds the pencil from the first to the last, and the price is fixed the day the drawing is signed.

A pencil site survey drawn on trace paper with handwritten dimensions, a steel scale rule and a sharpened pencil resting across the sheet
Fig. 02 — Site survey, pencil on trace

  1. 01 — Plan — 1:50

    The survey

    We come to the house and take the room down in pencil — walls, levels, light, the way you actually cook in it. The first drawing is of the room as it is, not as a catalogue would prefer it.

  2. 02 — Elevation — 1:20

    The design

    One named designer draws the kitchen and stays with it to the final fitting. The person who measured the room is the person who answers the phone, in week one and in week fourteen.

  3. 03 — Detail — 1:5

    The sign-off

    Cabinetry, natural stone, oak, ironmongery and lighting are settled in the showroom. When you sign the drawing the price is fixed — the honest answer to what a bespoke shaker or handleless kitchen costs — and it does not move afterwards, because the drawing does not.

  4. 04 — Room — 1:1

    The fitting

    Our own fitters build to the drawing, in your house, at full size. The custom cabinetry carries a ten-year guarantee. When we leave, the drawing and the room are the same thing.

Sheet 05 — Finished rooms

Rooms, photographed as rooms.

A selected set of kitchens, pantries and boot rooms across Wharfedale — each one photographed the morning after the fitters left, in whatever light the day offered.

Shaker kitchen in a barn conversion at breakfast, unbleached plaster walls and honed stone under overcast light

The frame had to answer the trusses — nothing else in that room was straight.

Room 01 — Shaker — Addingham Barn conversion — limewash frames, oak, honed stone
Handleless kitchen in a gritstone semi, flour dusted across the oak worktop in cool daylight

A kitchen is finished when somebody bakes in it.

Room 02 — Handleless — Ben Rhydding Gritstone semi — one unbroken line, oak worktop
Bespoke boot room with painted panelling and an oak bench, a waxed coat hanging and boots beneath in grey morning light

Four coats, two dogs, one bench. The brief, verbatim.

Room 03 — Boot room — Middleton Painted panelling — oak bench, flag floor
Walk-in pantry with floor-to-ceiling shaker cabinetry, oak drawers and a marble cold shelf lit by borrowed daylight

The pantry took the clutter so the kitchen could hold still.

Room 04 — Pantry — Burley-in-Wharfedale Walk-in pantry — shaker fronts, marble cold shelf
Handleless kitchen in a remodelled 1970s house, the worktop running level toward a full-height window onto the garden

We drew the worktop level with the garden step — the room runs outside.

Room 05 — Handleless — Menston 1970s remodel — natural stone worktop, garden line

Sheet 06 — In their words

The claims above, countersigned.

“The figure on the drawing in February was the figure on the final invoice in July. Nobody had to raise it, chase it, or explain it.”

R. & J. Halstead — Burley-in-Wharfedale

“In week fourteen I rang about the pantry hinges. The phone was answered by the designer who had measured the room in January — the same person, first sketch to last screw.”

M. Fairbank — Ben Rhydding

“The fitters covered the hall, swept every evening, and left the house cleaner than they found it. We hardly knew the work was happening until, one Tuesday, it was done.”

A. Pemberton — Ilkley

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Sheet 07 — The showroom, Ilkley

Come and stand in the room.

The showroom behaves the way the studio does. Walk in and look — put your hand on the stone, open the drawers, read the drawings pinned above the bench. Nobody will follow you around.

The Harlow & Vane showroom on a grey morning — a handleless display run, limewash shaker sample doors leant against the wall and pencil drawings pinned above a workbench
Fig. 03 — The showroom, grey morning
The Grove, Ilkley
West Yorkshire
Opening — the showroom
Tuesday10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday10:00 – 17:00
Thursday10:00 – 17:00
Friday10:00 – 17:00
Saturday10:00 – 16:00
Sunday & MondayClosed
Rather we came to you first? Begin a drawing
A freshly sharpened graphite pencil lying on blank trace paper beside a steel scale rule

Sheet 08 — Begin a drawing

Tell us about the room.

We will come and measure it. What you write here becomes the first line of the survey — nothing more is done with it.

Every kitchen we have ever built began exactly here — a room, and a few words about it.