Bespoke Stonework

Most of our week is kitchens — but the machinery that mitres a waterfall island to half a millimetre is just as happy cutting a marble dining table, a granite console, a reception counter or a window seat. Bespoke stonework is where the workshop gets to stretch: one-off pieces designed around your room, your drawing or sometimes just your photo of something you loved in a hotel lobby.

We work from A-grade slabs for statement pieces and from our stocked offcuts and remnants for smaller ones — hearths, sills, shelves, chopping slabs and vanity tops that cost a fraction of full-slab price because the material is already here. Everything is CNC-cut and hand-finished in West Molesey, and fitted (or delivered) across Surrey and South West London.

If you have a piece in mind, call 0208 123 3004 or sketch it into the contact form — commissions start with a conversation, not a commitment.

What counts as bespoke stonework?

Anything that is not a standard worktop: dining and coffee tables, desks and console tops, reception and bar counters, bookmatched wall panels, shower seats, window seats and sills, shelving, mantelpieces, plinths for sculpture, furniture repairs and re-tops for treasured pieces. If it is flat-ish stone cut to a precise shape and finish, it is our territory.

The process is the same discipline as kitchens — template or drawing, CNC cutting, hand finishing, careful installation — applied to one-off designs. We will tell you honestly when something is beyond sensible fabrication (full three-dimensional carving, for instance, is a sculptor's craft, not a sawyer's), and when a cheaper route gets the same result.

Can you make stone tables and furniture?

Yes — tables are our most common bespoke commission. A marble or granite dining table top, cut to your size with a softened edge and sealed properly, turns a table base you already own (or a steel base we can recommend fabricators for) into a genuinely permanent piece of furniture. Coffee tables, side tables, desks and sideboard tops follow the same pattern.

Weight is the design constraint to respect: a 2m x 1m dining top in 20mm marble weighs around 110kg, so bases must be rated for it and delivery is a two-person (sometimes four-person) exercise we plan with you. Thinner porcelain tops get the look at half the weight — a good trick for furniture that may move house with you. Material guidance lives on the materials hub.

Do you make counters for shops, bars and offices?

We do — reception desks, retail counters, bar and servery tops, café tables and communal-table tops for offices across Surrey and South West London. Commercial pieces usually want harder-wearing materials (quartz, porcelain or granite), radiused public-facing corners, and programmed installation outside trading hours, all of which is routine for us.

For trade clients — joiners, shopfitters, kitchen companies — we also work supply-only to your drawings: send cutting lists and DXFs and collect finished pieces from West Molesey, or have us deliver. One-off or repeat, the CNC does not care; the quality is identical.

What offcuts and remnants do you keep in stock?

Every kitchen leaves behind usable stone, and we keep the best of it: part-slabs and offcuts of quartz, granite, marble and porcelain, typically from 300mm strips up to pieces over a metre square. These are priced per piece, not per slab, which makes them the most economical route to vanity tops, hearths, window sills, shelves, chopping slabs, pet-food stations and small table tops.

Stock turns over weekly, so there is no permanent catalogue — ring 0208 123 3004 with the size you need and the look you are after, and we will tell you what is in. Fabrication quality is identical to full-slab work: same CNC, same polished edges, same sealing. Only the price per square metre is smaller.

How does a bespoke commission actually work?

It starts with whatever you have — a sketch, a Pinterest screenshot, architect's drawings or just dimensions and a description. We talk it through, recommend material and thickness, and price it; for fitted pieces we laser-template the space exactly as we would a kitchen. You approve the slab (or remnant) before cutting, the workshop fabricates, and we deliver or install.

Timescales mirror our kitchens: most pieces run 7–10 days from approved template or drawing, longer only when a specific slab has to be sourced. Nothing is cut until the design, the material and the price are all agreed in writing — bespoke should never mean open-ended.

What does bespoke stonework cost?

Remnant-cut small pieces start from around £120 — a polished hearth or a shelf set, for instance — while slab-cut tables and counters are priced by area at our standard material rates plus any complex fabrication (mitres, curves, polished undersides). As a rough guide: a 1.8m marble dining top from £650, a quartz reception counter from £900, a porcelain desk top from £400.

Every piece is quoted individually and fixed before cutting; there are no surprises because there is nothing standard to deviate from. As with everything we make, quotes are free, guide prices are guides, and we beat any written like-for-like quote.

Which materials suit bespoke pieces best?

Marble for beauty — tables, consoles and mantels where the piece is meant to be admired and treated with respect. Granite for permanence — outdoor tables, hearths, thresholds and anything that must shrug off decades. Quartz for hard-working surfaces — desks, counters, utility pieces — where consistency and stain-proofing matter more than romance. Porcelain for lightness, heat and weather: thin-profile table tops and outdoor furniture especially.

Finish matters as much as material on furniture: honed surfaces feel softer and hide wear on tables; polished faces maximise colour depth on display pieces. We finish samples both ways so you can choose with your hands as well as your eyes — order free samples or visit the workshop.

Can you repair or re-top existing stone furniture?

Often, yes. Chipped table edges can be filled and re-polished; dulled or etched marble tops re-honed to new; and where a top is beyond saving, we cut a replacement to the original's exact footprint so a loved base lives on. Washstands, dressing tables and shop fittings come through the workshop regularly for exactly this treatment.

The honest limits: structural cracks through thin unsupported stone usually mean replacement rather than repair, and antique restoration with conservation requirements belongs with a specialist conservator — we will say which applies from photos before you transport anything. The repair side of the craft is covered in chip & crack repair.

Can I visit the workshop and see the stone?

Yes — and for bespoke work we encourage it. Seeing slabs and the remnant racks in person beats any photograph: stone is three-dimensional, light-dependent and occasionally surprising, and ten minutes among the racks has redirected many a commission for the better. The workshop is in West Molesey (KT8), with opening hours and directions here.

If visiting is awkward, we work the other way: photos and videos of candidate slabs and offcuts sent to your phone, samples posted free, and approval handled remotely. Plenty of commissions complete without a visit — but the kettle is on if you come.

What are the most popular bespoke commissions right now?

Three families dominate the current order book. Marble and travertine-look coffee tables — the plinth-and-slab forms all over interiors media — which we cut with softened edges and honed faces that forgive glasses and remote controls. Desk tops in quartz and porcelain for the permanent home-office era: hard-wearing, cable-grommeted on the CNC, sized to alcoves. And media-wall shelving: chunky mitred stone shelves and hearth benches flanking recessed fires, usually matched to the hearth below.

Behind those, the perennials continue: window seats in bay windows, cold slabs for pantries and bakers, dog-bowl stations (genuinely), and champagne-friendly bar tops for garden rooms.

If your idea is on that list, we have probably cut one this month and can show you photos and prices quickly. If it is not on the list, better still — send the sketch to the contact page and let the workshop have a think.