HOME FROM HOME ABROAD KITCHEN PLANNING
Your holiday home should feel as comfortable, considered, and beautifully finished as your main home. With Casa Nora’s Home From Home abroad kitchen planning service, you can enjoy a luxury kitchen abroad with the same quality, design expertise, and attention to detail you would expect from a high-end UK project.Â
Led by Nora, Casa Nora designs, supplies, and installs kitchens for holiday homes across Europe. Whether you own a villa, coastal retreat, country house, apartment, or family escape, this specialist service gives you a simpler, more confident way to create a beautiful kitchen abroad without compromising on quality or finish.
Why Choose Casa Nora for Your Kitchen Design Abroad?Â
- A luxury kitchen abroad, designed to the same standard you expect at home
- Direct access to Nora’s kitchen and interior design expertise Â
- Clear English-speaking communication, with no language barriers
- Flexible installation by Nora’s experienced fitters or your own trusted team
A Luxury Kitchen Abroad, Designed Around You
A holiday home kitchen needs to feel inviting from the moment you arrive, whether you are opening up the house for the season, welcoming guests, or settling in for a quiet break. It should work beautifully for relaxed breakfasts, long summer lunches, family stays, and easy entertaining, while still feeling effortless to use and maintain.
That is why Nora takes time to understand how you use the property, who stays there, how you like to cook, and what the space needs to deliver. You may be renovating a French farmhouse, furnishing a new-build villa, upgrading a coastal apartment, or improving a countryside retreat. Whatever the setting, the design will be shaped around your lifestyle, your taste, and the character of the home.
The result is a kitchen that feels relaxed, luxurious, and personal — a true home from home.
Work With Nora Abroad as You Would in the UK
At Casa Nora, we recognise that it can be difficult to source a high-quality kitchen abroad with the same confidence you would have at home in the UK. Language barriers, unfamiliar suppliers, different working practices, and uncertainty around installation standards can make the process feel more complicated than it needs to be.
Casa Nora removes that uncertainty. You work directly with Nora, an experienced kitchen designer with a strong interior design background, from the first ideas through to the final details.Â
Beginning the Abroad Kitchen Design Process
If you are based in the UK, you can begin your project at one of Casa Nora’s London kitchen showrooms in Putney or Marble Arch. You can meet Nora, explore displays, compare finishes, view samples, and discuss your plans in person.
Alternatively, if your project is already underway abroad, Nora can visit your European property, meet you on site, measure the space, bring samples, and assess the details that will shape the final design. This is especially useful in older or character properties, where uneven walls, beams, stonework, unusual layouts, or changes in floor level need careful planning.
Built-In Interior Design Expertise
A successful holiday home kitchen should feel fully connected to its setting, rather than treated as a separate room. Nora’s interior design expertise means the kitchen is planned in relation to the flooring, lighting, wall colours, furniture, architectural details, and adjoining living areas.
This is especially valuable in European holiday homes, where kitchens often open onto terraces, dining spaces, open-plan living areas, or outdoor entertaining zones. From worktops and splashbacks to handles, taps, lighting, and appliances, every detail is considered as part of the wider interior. The finished kitchen feels cohesive, elegant, and carefully designed for the way you live when you are there.
Professional Measuring and Clear Communication
Accurate measuring is vital when a kitchen is being manufactured and delivered across borders. Nora can visit your property herself to measure the space, check practical details, and identify any potential issues before the kitchen is ordered. This includes wall dimensions, ceiling heights, window positions, plumbing, electrical points, service routes, appliance locations, and delivery access.
Clear communication is just as important. With Nora as your English-speaking kitchen designer and main point of contact, you can discuss ideas freely, review the design properly, and understand each stage without technical confusion or important details being lost in translation.Â
Premium Kitchen Brands Delivered to Your Holiday Home
Casa Nora supplies beautifully made kitchens from leading European brands, including modern German kitchens by Häcker, and Italian kitchens by Doca and Stosa. Chosen for their quality, precision engineering, durability, and refined finish, these brands offer the standard expected of a luxury kitchen, with options to suit different properties and budgets.Â
Whether your holiday home calls for sleek contemporary cabinetry, elegant textured finishes, warm natural tones, or a more understated design, Nora will guide you towards the right collection for your space. Once the design is finalised, your kitchen can be delivered directly to your holiday home abroad, ready for installation.
No UK VAT on Qualifying Exported Kitchens
For qualifying overseas projects, kitchens exported from the UK can be supplied without UK VAT, subject to the correct export process. This can be a valuable advantage when planning a luxury kitchen for a European holiday home.
Nora can talk you through how this applies to your project, so you understand the process clearly before making decisions.
Kitchen Installation by Nora’s Fitters or Your Own Team
Casa Nora offers flexible installation for overseas projects. Nora’s experienced fitters can install your kitchen for you, giving you continuity from design through to completion and helping ensure the finished kitchen reflects the original design intent.
If you already have a builder, contractor, or installer abroad, Casa Nora can supply the kitchen for your chosen team to fit. Nora can provide the relevant plans and details so your installer understands how the kitchen should be completed.
This gives you the freedom to choose the route that best suits your property, location, and project arrangements.
Start Your Home From Home Kitchen Project
Your holiday home deserves a kitchen that feels effortless, elegant, and built around the way you live. Casa Nora’s Home From Home kitchen design service makes it possible to create a luxury kitchen abroad with the same care, quality, and personal attention you would expect at home.
Begin your project with a free design appointment at the Casa Nora showroom in Putney, or London Marble Arch, or else, contact Nora today to arrange a visit to your European property.
