Eight picks by category rather than one meaningless winner, drawn from the Nobilia and Schüller programmes we supply factory-direct. Real price positions, real reasons, and a link to every range so you can judge for yourself.
Last updated 30 July 2026
from around £10,000 supply-only
A deep-embossed wood-effect front on the standard 19mm Nobilia carcase, with nBox soft-close drawers, Sensys hinges and a 10 year manufacturer warranty as standard. It reads as real timber in daylight, wears well in a family kitchen and sits in a mid price group rather than a premium one. If you want the most convincing German kitchen per pound spent, start here.
See the Nobilia Structura rangefrom around £5,000 supply-only
Price Group 1, eight tonal colours, handled or handleless, and exactly the same 19mm carcase and Blum soft-close hardware as a Schüller kitchen three times the price. The cheapest genuine German kitchen we supply, and materially better built than a mid-range UK high-street kitchen at the same money.
See the Schüller Nova rangemid price group
A grip rail machined into the door itself rather than bolted on, in a Steel Dark matt UV lacquer with an anti-fingerprint surface. The result is an unbroken horizontal line across the run with no visible ironmongery, and no fingerprints on a dark front - the failing that ruins most handleless schemes in practice.
See the Schüller Targa rangeupper-mid price group
28 coordinated Colour Concept lacquer shades on a matt velvet anti-fingerprint front, across six tonal families. Nothing else in the German market gives you this much colour on a single programme, and because the palette is coordinated you can run a painted island against a woodgrain perimeter without guesswork.
See the Schüller Siena rangepremium price group
A New-England painted shaker with tongue-and-groove detail, available in all 28 Colour Concept shades and in both handled and handleless configurations. The best answer we know for a Victorian or Edwardian UK home that wants period proportions with German engineering behind the doors.
See the Schüller Newport rangeentry to mid price group
A deep matt velvet UV lacquer with a true anti-fingerprint surface, in Onyx or Lava Black. Matt black is the finish most likely to disappoint if the surface is wrong - Matera is the one that stays clean-looking in a working kitchen, and it starts in Price Group 1.
See the Schüller Matera rangepremium price group
Genuine brushed oak veneer under a rigid two-component lacquer, in three knotty oak finishes. Real timber grain that changes with the light, rather than a reproduction print. The premium pick for a warm, tactile kitchen where the material is the design.
See the Schüller Rocca rangepremium price group
The top of the Nobilia programme, specified architecturally with tall unit walls, integrated appliances and matching panelwork. It gives you a genuinely luxury-tier kitchen while keeping Nobilia's standard hardware package and 10 year warranty behind it.
See the Nobilia Cascada rangeEvery kitchen here is built and shipped rigid at 19mm, not flatpack, from the factory in Verl or Herrieden.
Soft-close on every door and drawer is included, not a line item. Blum on Schüller, nBox and Sensys on Nobilia.
Prices are supply-only, inc VAT, for cabinets, doors and interior fittings. Worktops and appliances are quoted separately.
We only rate ranges we can actually deliver to a UK address, on a 6 to 8 week lead time from order confirmation.
These eight are a starting point, not the whole catalogue. Between Nobilia and Schüller we supply 47 ranges, from Price Group 1 laminate through to real oak veneer and 28-shade lacquer.
Send your rough layout and we will return a CAD plan, photorealistic 3D render and an itemised, factory-direct price.
