A small workshop in Clonmethan, Co. Dublin, making bespoke kitchens for Irish homes since 1996.
Tony Scully, founder. Three craftsmen. One workshop. No middlemen.
Most kitchens you'll see in showrooms are made by machine in a factory and shipped flat-packed. Ours aren't. Hand tools and bench joinery take longer; they also produce furniture that fits properly, lasts longer, and can be repaired in thirty years instead of replaced. We chose this method when we started in 1996 and we haven't changed our minds.
We don't subcontract the design, the build, or the install. From your first phone call to the warranty visit five years later, you're dealing with the same small group of people. When something needs to happen, it happens — there's no chain of suppliers to chase.
We buy timber we'd put in our own homes and hardware that's still working in twenty years. We don't compete on price, and we don't try to. The people who hire us are the ones who've worked out that the cheap kitchen costs more in the end.
A proper bespoke kitchen takes around four weeks to build, and we build one or two a month. We won't tell you we can do it in two weeks; we won't take a deposit and then a year to start. We say the timeline at the consultation, write it into the agreement, and stick to it.
Tony Scully started Anthony Ryan Kitchens in 1996, in a workshop not much bigger than the kitchens he was making. Thirty years later, he's still in the workshop most days — measuring, drawing, making.
The business has stayed deliberately small. Three craftsmen, one Tony, working through every kitchen from the first conversation to the final hinge adjustment. We've turned down growth that would have meant subcontracting the work or running a showroom we couldn't stand over. The kitchens we build are the kitchens Tony has had his hands on.
That's the whole company. There's no marketing department, no franchise, no factory in another country wearing our name. There's a workshop in Oldtown, the same workshop for thirty years, and the people who turn up to it every day are the people you'll meet when you commission a kitchen.
Every kitchen goes through a four-step process: discovery, design, fabrication, and installation. We've put the full detail on a separate page so you can see exactly what working with us looks like — from the first conversation to the warranty call five years later.