Cockermouth, Cumbria
Bespoke kitchens in Cockermouth
The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Cockermouth is a Georgian town where the Cocker meets the Derwent. A great deal of its housing has been rebuilt from the ground floor up since the floods of 2009 and 2015. So the town has a lot of fairly recent kitchens. Many went in quickly under insurance. The houses around them 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. It usually causes less disruption than the first one did.
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
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. 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 instead of ignoring it. Tall cabinets. A proper cornice line. A larder that goes up rather than sideways. We make the carcasses, so the height of a unit is a decision and not a limit.
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.
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