Cockermouth, Cumbria
Bespoke kitchens in Cockermouth
The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Cockermouth is a Georgian town at the meeting of the Cocker and the Derwent, and a good deal of its housing has been rebuilt from the ground floor up since the floods of 2009 and 2015. That leaves a town with a lot of relatively recent kitchens, many of them put in quickly under insurance, in houses that are otherwise two hundred years old.
A kitchen that went in fast after a flood is often the wrong kitchen for the house: standard units in a Georgian room with high skirtings and deep window reveals. Replacing it with furniture made for the room is one of the more satisfying jobs we get, and it usually costs less disruption than the first one did.
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
Cockermouth: the questions we get
Do you replace kitchens that went in after the floods?
We do, and it is common work in Cockermouth. A kitchen fitted in a hurry under an insurance claim is generally a standard one, and a Georgian room with deep reveals and tall skirtings deserves better than that.
How do you handle a Georgian room with high ceilings?
By using the height rather than ignoring it. Tall cabinets, a proper cornice line, and a larder that goes up rather than sideways. Because we make the carcasses, the height of a unit is a decision rather than a limitation.
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.
Nearby
We work right across this area.
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