Brampton, Cumbria
Bespoke kitchens in Brampton

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Brampton is a sandstone market town with a cobbled square, sitting under the line of Hadrian's Wall. The houses in the middle are old. Most are listed or in the conservation area. The country round Talkin and Lanercost is farms and converted agricultural buildings. Both kinds of property share one thing. The room dictates the furniture, not the other way round.
Conservation-area work needs furniture that suits the age of the building. It should not pretend to be older than it is. A hand-painted in-frame kitchen in a quiet colour usually sits better in a Brampton town house than a modern slab door. And a painted finish can be matched to what is already in the room.
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
Brampton: the questions we get
Do you work on listed buildings around Brampton?
Yes. Free-standing and fitted furniture both have a place in an older building. We make everything ourselves, so we can work to what the building needs and to any consent conditions. Not to a catalogue of standard sizes.
Will a hand-painted kitchen suit an old sandstone house?
Usually better than anything else. Painted in-frame cabinets have the same lines as the joinery that would first have been in the house. The colour is chosen to sit with the stone, not to stand out against it.
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.
- Bespoke kitchens in Carlisle
- Bespoke kitchens in Dalston
- Bespoke kitchens in Wigton
- Bespoke kitchens in Longtown
- Bespoke kitchens in Penrith
- Bespoke kitchens in Keswick
- Bespoke kitchens in Cockermouth
- Bespoke kitchens in Appleby
- Bespoke kitchens in Gretna
- Bespoke kitchens in Annan
- Bespoke kitchens in Lockerbie
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
