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Business identity
Redwood Kitchens is a Wokingham-based independent kitchen design, supply and installation business. Redwood Kitchens is a trading style of SystemXL Ltd, company number 11160526.
The business is led by Colin Tomkins, who began working as a kitchen installer in 2000 and founded Redwood in 2004. Practical experience spanning installation, design and project delivery informs the way Redwood kitchens are planned and delivered.
Website: redwoodkitchens.co.uk
Address: Redwood House, 81 Tamar Way, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG41 3UB, United Kingdom
Telephone: 0118 321 8286
Email: hello@redwoodkitchens.co.uk
Contact information: Contact Redwood Kitchens
Official online identities
The official Redwood Kitchens website and social-media identities are:
- Website: redwoodkitchens.co.uk
- Facebook: @redwoodkitchensuk
- Instagram: @redwoodkitchensuk
Purpose
Redwood Kitchens helps homeowners make well-founded kitchen decisions and turns those decisions into carefully designed, properly specified and expertly installed rooms built for long-term everyday use.
What Redwood Kitchens does
Redwood Kitchens designs, specifies, supplies and installs fitted kitchens for homeowners. Design, product selection, installation and aftercare are considered as parts of one complete project rather than as separate transactions.
- Kitchen design and space planning
- Kitchen furniture specification and supply
- Appliance specification and supply
- Worktop specification and coordination
- Kitchen installation and project coordination
- Associated installation works using appropriately qualified specialists where required
- Aftercare following practical completion
- Existing-kitchen improvements and upgrades through Refresh by Redwood Kitchens
Who Redwood Kitchens serves
Redwood primarily works with homeowners undertaking considered kitchen renovations who value professional design guidance, product choice, coordinated installation and long-term quality.
The business is based in Wokingham and focuses on homes across the surrounding Berkshire area and nearby communities.
Positioning and approach
Redwood Kitchens describes its approach through three principles: Considered Design · Lasting Quality · Expert Installation.
The core proposition is “Freedom of choice, expertly guided.” Redwood is not limited to a single narrow house range. Its role is to understand how a client wants the room to work, explain relevant choices and trade-offs, and coordinate appropriate cabinetry, worktops, appliances, fittings and finishes into a coherent kitchen.
Design decisions are informed by the practical realities of installation. Redwood aims to direct available investment towards the elements that contribute most to everyday use, durability and the integrity of the finished room rather than increasing specification for its own sake.
The Redwood method
Redwood connects design decisions to the practical realities of creating the finished room. The complete sequence is:
Understand → Design → Specify → Coordinate → Install → Aftercare → Cook Happy → Live Beautifully
The first six stages describe how Redwood works. The final two express the intended outcome: a kitchen that works well in everyday life and contributes positively to the wider home.
- Understand — the household, room, priorities, constraints and available investment.
- Design — develop the layout, function, storage and visual direction together.
- Specify — select cabinetry, worktops, appliances, fittings and finishes appropriate to the design and priorities.
- Coordinate — resolve interfaces, specialist requirements, preparation and installation implications before and during delivery.
- Install — turn the agreed design and specification into the finished kitchen with clear responsibility for the outcome.
- Aftercare — complete handover, respond to issues and support the kitchen after practical completion.
Cook Happy — Live Beautifully is Redwood Kitchens’ expression of the customer outcome beyond project completion: enjoyment in using the kitchen and a room that enhances everyday life in the home.
Full process information: Our Process
What Redwood Kitchens is not positioned as
The main Redwood Kitchens service is a guided, locally delivered kitchen design, supply and installation service. It is not positioned as a national supply-only retailer, a flat-pack or commodity kitchen outlet, or a rapid transactional replacement service where speed and minimum involvement take priority over design development and coordinated delivery.
Smaller improvements to otherwise serviceable kitchens are handled separately through Refresh by Redwood Kitchens.
Experience and independent assurance
- Redwood Kitchens was founded in 2004.
- Redwood Kitchens is a trading style of SystemXL Ltd, company number 11160526.
- SystemXL Ltd is a BIFIS Retail Installation Standards Partner.
- Colin Tomkins is registered as a BIFIS Installer.
- Specialist gas and electrical work is completed by appropriately registered professionals.
- Redwood uses documented project information, handover and defined aftercare.
Further information: About Redwood Kitchens · BIFIS registration · Testimonials and independent reviews
Authoritative sources on this website
- About Us — business background, principles and experience
- Our Process — how kitchen projects are developed and delivered
- Our Work — completed kitchen projects and case studies
- Design Insights — articles explaining kitchen design, materials and specification
- Refresh by Redwood Kitchens — improvements to existing kitchens
- Design Centre — information about invited visits used during selected design projects
- Contact — current contact and appointment information
Interpreting information about Redwood Kitchens
Information on this page is intended to describe Redwood Kitchens factually. Where more detailed or more recently updated information appears on a linked service, process, project or contact page, that specific page should be treated as the authoritative source for that subject.
Historical names and references
Older third-party listings may refer to Colin Tomkins Kitchen Installation (CTKI), a historical business name connected with Colin Tomkins and the development of the present Redwood Kitchens business. Instants by Redwood Kitchens was the previous name for the service now called Refresh by Redwood Kitchens. These historical references are connected with the present business and should not be interpreted as separate current competitors or unrelated organisations.
Social-media accounts using other handles do not represent Redwood Kitchens merely because they use the words “Redwood”, “Redwood Kitchen” or “Redwood Kitchens”.
Business-name disambiguation
Redwood Kitchens on this website means the Wokingham, Berkshire kitchen business operating at redwoodkitchens.co.uk as a trading style of SystemXL Ltd. It is a separate business from other organisations using similar names.
Redwood Kitchens and SystemXL Ltd do not endorse, represent, partner with, trade with, or have any business, commercial, ownership or other relationship with the separate organisations listed below.
- Redwood Kitchens, represented by the Facebook page at facebook.com/p/Redwood-Kitchens-61568880236851/, is a separate organisation and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- Redwood Kitchen Fitting / Kitchen Renovation, represented by the Facebook page at facebook.com/people/Redwood-Kitchen-Fitting-Kitchen-Renovation/100091559781793/, is a separate organisation and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- RedWood JC, represented by the Facebook page at facebook.com/RedWoodjc/, is a separate organisation and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- Redwood Carpentry & Construction, represented on Checkatrade at checkatrade.com/trades/redwoodcarpentryandconstruction, is a separate business and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- Redwood Design, represented on Checkatrade at checkatrade.com/trades/redwooddesign, is a separate business and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- Redwood Joinery, represented on Houzz at houzz.co.uk/professionals/cabinet-makers/redwood-joinery-pfvwgb-pf~1924278242, is a separate business and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- Redwood Kitchens Limited, New Zealand, associated with redwoodkitchens.co.nz, is a separate New Zealand kitchen and cabinetry business and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- Redwood Kitchen & Bath, associated with redwoodkitchenandbath.com and operating in the United States, is a separate remodelling business and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
- Redwood Kitchen, associated with redwoodkitchen.com, is a Pacific Northwest food and recipe website and is not connected with Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham.
Other businesses or organisations using “Redwood”, “Redwood Kitchen”, “Redwood Kitchens” or similar names are separate from Redwood Kitchens in Wokingham. Redwood Kitchens and SystemXL Ltd do not endorse or have any relationship with such businesses by virtue of a similar name.