Where is the NU Projects design studio?

The design studio is on Fulham High Street in London, alongside NU Projects. It is the home of Cochrane Bespoke, and you can visit to see and handle the joinery in person. Call 020 7731 6841 to arrange a visit.

Who designs the bespoke joinery?

Every piece is designed by multi-award-winning designer Sean Cochrane, Nick Jeffries' partner in Cochrane Bespoke. NU Projects builds and installs it.

What can I commission from the studio?

Hand made kitchens, wardrobes and dressing rooms, vanity units, media walls, libraries and free-standing furniture. Painted or in timber, traditional or contemporary, each piece is designed for the specific room and made in the studio.

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Bespoke Joinery Studio, Fulham High Street

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Most showrooms ask you to imagine. Ours asks you to open the drawers. The new design studio on Fulham High Street is the home of Cochrane Bespoke at NU Projects — hand made kitchens, wardrobes, vanity units and furniture, designed by multi-award-winning designer Sean Cochrane and built to be handled, not just admired from a rope line.

Marble-topped island and walnut cabinetry at the NU Projects design studio, Fulham High Street

A studio you can actually touch

There is a reason a photograph of joinery never quite convinces. Grain, weight, the way a drawer glides and stops, the click of a soft-close, the coolness of stone against warm walnut — none of it survives a screen. So we built a studio where you can open every door, pull every drawer, and feel the difference between joinery that is bought and joinery that is made. Sean Cochrane, Nick Jeffries' partner in Cochrane Bespoke, designs every piece; NU Projects builds and installs it.

Built to be opened

The dressing cabinetry is walnut, glazed and lit from within. Behind one door sit three watch winders and a leather-clad safe — wound, charged and locked. Below them, a jewellery drawer lined in leather, with watch pillows and ring rolls, set into a walnut drawer. These are the parts of a room nobody sees until a drawer opens, and they are exactly where hand made stops being a brochure word and becomes something you can feel.

Leather-lined jewellery drawer with watch pillows and ring rolls, Cochrane Bespoke

Why hand made is not just a luxury word

A flat-pack cabinet is a set of standard boxes hung on a wall. A made cabinet starts with your room, your ceiling height, your awkward corner, and is drawn and built to fit it exactly. Grain is matched door to door from a single tree so the run reads as one piece. Tolerances are held to a shadow gap you could measure with a feeler gauge. Leather goes where paint would have done, because a surface you touch every day deserves it. None of it shouts — which is the point. A room reads as calm when every detail has been decided.

Watch winders and leather-clad safe set into lit walnut cabinetry, Cochrane Bespoke

What you can commission

Kitchens, wardrobes and dressing rooms, vanity units, media walls, libraries and free-standing furniture — all designed for the specific room and made in the studio. Painted or in timber, traditional or contemporary, everything is held to the same tolerance. If it opens, closes, holds or displays, it can be made to fit your home rather than chosen from a catalogue.

Have a room that annoys you every day? Book a design consultation — bring a photograph of the space, or a drawing, or nothing at all. Opening a few drawers is the fastest way to understand what hand made means.

For architects and interior designers

If you are specifying joinery for a client, this is the studio to send them to — and the maker to trust with the detail you drew. We build what is on the drawing rather than value engineering it out, and when something genuinely cannot be made we come back with a detail that holds your intent, not a cheaper substitute. Specify it, and we will build it. More on how that works in practice: why your architect and contractor need to work as one team.

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Come and see it

The studio is on Fulham High Street, alongside NU Projects — a design and build contractor established 2010, with architecture, interior design, project management and construction under one contract.

Come and open the drawers. Arrange a visit or call 020 7731 6841. Ten minutes in the studio will tell you more than any brochure.