Appleby, Cumbria
Bespoke kitchens in Appleby

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Appleby-in-Westmorland sits in the upper Eden Valley, sandstone again, with Boroughgate running down from the castle to the river. Around it are farms and estate cottages, and a steady amount of restoration work on older properties. It is the furthest regular corner of our area and the houses there are almost uniformly old.
Work this far out is planned rather than casual, so we do more of it in one visit: kitchen, utility and boot room drawn together, fitted in one programme, by the same men. It is a better way to do it in any case, because the three rooms share a wall more often than not.
We buy the timber, cut and machine the carcasses at Dalston, prime them in our own paint shop, hand-paint them on site in water-based eggshell, and fit them with our own fitting team. 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
Appleby: the questions we get
Do you travel as far as Appleby?
Yes. It is the far end of our regular area rather than outside it, and work that far out is usually planned as one programme rather than a series of visits.
Can you do the kitchen and the utility room at the same time?
It is usually the sensible way. They are often back to back, they share services, and drawing them together means the storage ends up where it should be instead of being split between two jobs done a year apart.
What is an in-frame kitchen, and why does it cost more?
In-frame means every door and drawer sits inside a face frame fixed to the carcass, the way a piece of furniture is made, rather than hanging on the front of a box. It takes more timber, more machining and far more accuracy, because the gap around each door has to be even the whole way round and it is visible.
It is also why a well-made in-frame kitchen still looks right in twenty years. There is a frame holding everything square.
Can you match a colour I have already chosen?
Yes. Painted work is primed here and hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell, and the colour is whatever you want it to be. That is one of the practical advantages of having a paint shop rather than ordering doors in a manufacturer's fixed range.
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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
