Annan, Dumfriesshire
Bespoke kitchens in Annan
The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Annan is a red sandstone town on the Solway. The centre is Georgian and Victorian. Farms and older houses spread along the coast and inland towards Dornock and Eastriggs. We know this stretch well. We have made two rooms at Dornock, two years apart, for the same house.
That second Dornock job is the thing we would point at if somebody asked whether the work lasts. The kitchen went in in 2023. In 2025 we went back and made the dressing room. People do not ask you back two years later if the first job went wrong.
We have made kitchens in Carlisle and across Cumbria since 1972. We buy the timber. We cut the carcasses at Dalston. We prime them in our own paint shop. Our own men paint them by hand in your house, then fit them. One firm. One drawing. One number to ring afterwards.
- Carcass
- Birch ply, cut and machined at Dalston, lipped
- Doors
- In-frame, made to the drawing for your room
- Painted
- Pre-primed in-house, hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell
- Timber
- Two-pack lacquer, satin, tough and maintenance free
- Worktops
- Quoted with the kitchen, chosen from the showroom displays
- Appliances
- Sinks, taps and appliances on display at Dalston
- Made at
- Dalston
- Fitted by
- Our own men
- Trading since
- 1972
- Drawings kept
- Always
Our own job, near Annan
A dressing room over the border, Dornock
Annan: the questions we get
Have you actually worked near Annan?
Yes. There is a kitchen and utility room at Dornock from September 2023. There is a fitted dressing room in the same house from July 2025. Both are on the projects pages, with photographs.
Do you charge extra for crossing the border?
No. Dumfriesshire has always been part of the area we cover, and it is not a long run from Dalston. The price is for the furniture and the fitting, not for the postcode.
What is an in-frame kitchen, and why does it cost more?
In-frame means each door sits inside a frame fixed to the carcass. That is how a piece of furniture is made. The cheaper way is to hang the door on the front of a box.
It takes more timber and more machining. It takes far more accuracy, because the gap round every door has to be even the whole way round, and you can see it.
It is also why a good in-frame kitchen still looks right in twenty years. There is a frame holding it all square.
Can you match a colour I have already chosen?
Yes. We prime the work here and hand-paint it on site in water-based eggshell. The colour is whatever you want. That is the practical gain from having our own paint shop instead of ordering doors in somebody else's fixed range.
Nearby
We work right across this area.
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Talk to the workshop
Come to Dalston and look.
01228 710085- Monday to Thursday
- 8am – 5pm
- Friday
- 8am – 3.30pm
- Saturday
- 8am – 12pm
- Sunday
- Closed