Hampton East
Kitchen and home renovations in Hampton East
The Kiely Group is a boutique renovation builder working in Hampton East. Next door in Hampton we have completed three projects — a whole-home renovation with a new kitchen and pool house, two bathrooms in a family home, and an architecturally designed home.
The kitchen is usually at the back, facing a fence
Much of Hampton East is post-war brick on a reasonable block — houses planned from the street in, with the best rooms at the front and a small kitchen at the back looking at the boundary. The structure is rarely the problem. The plan is. Nearly every kitchen brief we hear from this part of Bayside is really a brief to turn the house around and face the garden.
That is why we would rather design a kitchen as part of the house than insert one into it. Opening the kitchen to the garden usually means removing a wall that is holding something up, new plumbing and electrical runs, flooring that does not stop at the kitchen door, and a decision about how the new room meets the old ones. Budget for the joinery and the stone and you will be surprised by everything else — unless someone has read the job properly first.
We work throughout Hampton East and Hampton, and across the rest of Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham, Black Rock, Beaumaris and the coast beyond.
What we tend to be asked for in Hampton East
- A kitchen opened to the garden and the northern light
- Bespoke joinery and stone, built to the room rather than assembled from carcass sizes
- A kitchen, laundry and bathroom done together as one job
- Reworking a rear addition that was never built well the first time
- A whole-home renovation where the kitchen is the centrepiece
The kitchen next door
In the Hampton whole-home renovation the kitchen is green shaker cabinetry, a stone island, a freestanding cooker and brass hardware. What makes it work is duller than any of that: the bench heights, an island deep enough for two people to pass behind, where the light lands in the afternoon, and joinery that meets the floor and the ceiling as though the house was always this shape.
Those decisions are made months before installation. See how we build a kitchen.
Our projects next door in Hampton
A whole-home renovation with a new kitchen, laundry, three bathrooms and a pool house, and an architecturally designed home — both a few streets from Hampton East.
What we do in Hampton East
Questions we get asked
- Do you work in Hampton East?
- Yes. Hampton East sits next to Hampton, where we have completed three projects — a whole-home renovation with a new kitchen and pool house, two bathrooms in a family home, and an architecturally designed home — and we work across the rest of Bayside.
- Do you renovate kitchens on their own?
- We do, though most of our kitchens are part of a wider renovation. A kitchen is rarely just a kitchen — it usually touches structure, plumbing, electrical and how the rest of the ground floor works — and the result is better when it is designed as part of the house rather than inserted into it.
- What kind of houses are in Hampton East?
- Mostly post-war brick on a reasonable block, often with the kitchen at the back of the house facing a fence. The structure is rarely the problem; the plan is. Opening the kitchen to the garden and the light is the most common brief we hear from this part of Bayside, and it usually means a structural change as well as new joinery.
- What does a kitchen renovation cost in Hampton East?
- A bespoke kitchen with custom joinery and stone is not a fixed number — it depends on the size of the room, the level of finish and what is behind the existing walls. We would rather look at it and give you an honest range than quote a figure that moves.
- Which suburbs near Hampton East do you cover?
- Hampton East sits between Hampton and Moorabbin, so we work outward from it through Highett, Brighton East and Bentleigh, and across the rest of Bayside from Brighton down to Mordialloc.
Renovating in Hampton East?
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We take on a limited number of projects each year, so the more detail you can give us, the faster we can tell you whether we are the right fit.
- Phone
- (03) 9787 4880
- Where we build
- Bayside Melbourne — Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham & surrounds