Hyderabad · Kitchens and wardrobes

A sanctuary, forged

Kitchens and wardrobes made to order in Hyderabad. Built in the Wood & Metal workshop, by the same hands, to the same tolerances.

See the work

The workshop floor at the end of the day
The workshop where La Kova cabinetry is built
Close detail of a cut timber joint
Air dried ash waiting to be cut
Timber stacked and stickered in the drying yard
A walnut cabinet front, closed
Full-height timber joinery running floor to ceiling

The name

Cova. A cave. Kovati. To forge. Kova. Hard. One room, three languages.

Galician, Slavic and Finnish arrive at almost the same word, and at almost the same idea: a private space, shaped by hand, hard enough to stay. We kept all three meanings.

A maker at the bench among chisels and shavings
A board face catching the light after its first coat of oil

What we make

La Kova builds kitchens and wardrobes to order, one room at a time, drawn for the space it will stand in and made in the Wood & Metal factory in Hyderabad.

Nothing here comes off a shelf. There is no catalogue of door styles to choose from, and no standard carcase your room has to be designed around.

How we work

Four things we do not move on

  • 01

    Sanctuary

    A kitchen should go quiet when it is closed. We draw for continuous runs, concealed fixings and doors that sit flush, so a wall reads as one surface instead of a set of parts.

  • 02

    Forged

    Wood and metal in the same piece. Frames, pulls and hinges are made in the same building as the cabinetry, which is why the hardware matches the timber rather than approximating it.

  • 03

    Precision

    Carcases are cut to a survey of your room, not to a module. Scribes are cut on site, by the person who made the run.

  • 04

    Endurance

    Solid timber, real joints, finishes that can be repaired instead of replaced. A door that swells in July should still close in July ten years from now.

Selected work

Drawn for one room only

Kitchens and wardrobes for private homes in and around Hyderabad, most of them reaching us through the architect or designer already working on the house.

All projects

Kokapet Residence, Kitchen

Kokapet Residence

2025

Kitchen

Kokapet, Hyderabad

Jubilee Hills Duplex, Kitchen

Jubilee Hills Duplex

2025

Kitchen

Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad

Banjara Hills Dressing Room, Wardrobe

Banjara Hills Dressing Room

2024

Wardrobe

Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Film Nagar Apartment, Kitchen and pantry

Film Nagar Apartment

2024

Kitchen and pantry

Film Nagar, Hyderabad

Working together

We work through your architect

Most projects come to us from an architect or an interior designer, and we are comfortable staying in that lane. We will work to your drawings, sit in your site meetings, and hand back shop drawings you can mark up before anything is cut.

Trade enquiries

Drawings and a rule laid out on the bench
A maker working on a cabinet run in the workshop
A finished room seen from the doorway
A finished interior with fitted timber joinery

Showroom

See it in Hyderabad

Full-height cabinetry, drawers that run, and the finishes we actually use. Come and open things.

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