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Sustainability
Naked Kitchens are built for a sustainable life. We design, make, paint and install everything ourselves in Norfolk, we heat the whole site with our own offcuts, and we build furniture to last a lifetime rather than be replaced.
That's not corporate greenwashing or easy marketing-speak: we take this stuff very seriously and we don't compromise on it.
Sustainable Timber
We are an FSC certified manufacturer and only use responsibly sourced timber and water-based finishes.
Around 70% of the timber and boards we buy – including our birch plywood and Egger and Finsa boards – is FSC or PEFC certified, bought against chain of custody through long standing suppliers. The rest, mostly American hardwoods like oak and walnut, come through UK importers who carry out legality and sustainability checks under the UK Timber Regulations, and we're working with them to get every species certified.
Water Based Paint
Kinder to the air, with no compromise on durability.
Our doors are finished in a water-based PU paint rather than a solvent-based one, sprayed and cured on our 80m Venjakob line.
It's kinder to the air in our workshop and in your home, and it still gives the most durable finish in the industry. Solvent-based finishes release VOCs as they dry. Ours don't, which means cleaner air in our workshop and in your home.
Biomass Boilers
All of our heating comes from our own waste wood.
The Naked Kitchens aircraft hangar home is over 90,000 square feet, so getting fossil fuels out of our heating hasn't been easy – but we've done it. Our secret is a closed loop: the offcuts, shavings and sawdust from making your kitchen become the heat that makes the next one.
We started back in 2015 with two log boilers heating our offices and showroom. In early 2024 we went the whole way, installing a 199kW fully-automated waste-wood boiler fed straight from a silo. It now heats the factory, cures the paint on our 80-metre spray line and warms the office and showroom, and it has replaced over 2,000,000 kWh of gas a year, around 366 tonnes of CO₂e. The only thing we burn is clean, dry wood from our own workshop, monitored daily under our environmental permit.
We Eliminate Our Waste
Nothing from our production waste goes to landfill
As a family business, we're obsessed with manufacturing efficiency. We've invested over £2m in the technology to get here, and we constantly review every tiny aspect of every single process to see where we can do better.
Our CNC machines batch nest, so we now use 88% of every sheet (it used to be 72%). Bigger offcuts are remade into smaller doors and samples; only the awkward bits go into the biomass system. Our dust extraction only runs when a machine is actually cutting, saving 38,200 kWh of electricity a year.
And our spray line scrapes excess paint back for reuse – around 200 litres a year. It all adds up to around 438 tonnes of production waste a year processed right here on site. No skips, no waste contractor, no lorry miles. The only thing that leaves the building is boiler ash.
Scandi-style Birch Plywood
Birch ply is the best material for making kitchen cabinets!
Birch plywood has long been prized in the construction, furniture and even automotive industries for its strength and durability. But not all birch plywoods are equal. At Naked Kitchens we spent a huge amount of time researching industries, talking to suppliers and learning about different tree species before we discovered THE ideal ply for manufacturing our kitchen cabinets.
The wood we use comes from a native European birch, grown in FSC-certified Latvian forests. It produces timber with precisely the properties we need: light coloured, fine-textured and dense. But we've come to realise that this particular ply is not just the perfect material for Naked Kitchens' manufacturing processes; it's the perfect material for kitchen cabinets full stop.
Made in Britain
We build everything right here in our Norfolk workshop
Some kitchen suppliers source cabinetry from factories around the world, have it shipped thousands of miles to their warehouse and then sell it on as their own. We design, machine, paint and assemble every single piece ourselves in our wonderful repurposed RAF aircraft hangars at West Raynham.
Doing it all under one roof means we own the whole process, and every bit of its environmental impact. Nothing is handed to a supplier we can't see. It also means we're training the next generation of makers: our internship programme has brought around 20 people into the trade so far, several of whom are now part of the team. Seriously high quality, seriously low carbon footprint.
Rehome Plus
We're a Rehome+ Partner
Before we install, we introduce every client replacing a kitchen to Rehome – a certified B Corp and Queen's Award winner who give pre-loved kitchens a second life. Your old kitchen goes to a new home rather than landfill, you gain unexpected funds towards your Naked Kitchens project, and dismantling and removal are taken care of. 14 of our clients' kitchens have been rehomed so far, each saving on average 4 tonnes of carbon and 1.8 trees. It's a win-win for you and our planet.
If you'd like to find out more about this ethical service, please complete this form and Rehome will be in touch.
Our Designs
We build sustainability into our designs
Building a sustainable kitchen isn't just about the materials and the manufacturing: the design matters too.
When we help customers design a kitchen, we're conscious of building sustainability into the process, and seemingly small decisions can have a big impact. We're keen on biophilic designs, which make use of exposed wood and showcase the raw beauty of natural materials. And every order goes out with corner protection you send back to us to use again.
Built for Life
Every Naked Kitchen comes with a lifetime guarantee
We spend a ridiculous amount of time stress-testing our cabinetry for quality and durability. We know that cabinetry aren't just for pretty showrooms.
So we make sure they're chaos-proof, mess-proof and can handle everything that real life throws at them – and we back that with a lifetime guarantee. The greenest kitchen is the one you never have to replace.
What’s Next
We know there's always more to do
In 2027 we'll set a verified carbon baseline covering our energy, waste and manufacturing emissions, reviewed by the board every year so our progress is measured rather than just claimed. We're studying a solar array for the factory so our machines and EV chargers run on our own electricity, and we're constantly working with suppliers to improve the sustainable sourcing of our materials.
We also open the factory to other makers, designers and suppliers, because we'd rather this become the industry standard than our competitive advantage.
At Naked Kitchens, we take sustainability seriously. We are trying to do everything we can to cut waste and carbon emissions, and to be responsible in our sourcing. But we know there's always more we can do and we are always open to new ideas. Please do get in touch if you think you can help us do even better.