Gretna, Dumfriesshire
Bespoke kitchens in Gretna

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Gretna is the first town over the border and a short run up the road from us. The housing is a mixture. The planned township built for the munitions works in 1915. Post-war housing around it. Newer estates. Farms out towards the Solway and the Esk. The 1915 township houses were built to a plan and to a budget. Their kitchens are small rooms that reward being thought about properly.
A small kitchen is the hardest kind to buy off the shelf. It is also the easiest kind to improve by making it to measure. Say the room is nine feet by eight. Fifty millimetres of filler panel in the wrong place is the difference between a usable worktop and a useless one.
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
Gretna: the questions we get
Do you cross the border to Gretna?
Yes. Southwest Scotland has always been part of the area we cover. Gretna is one of the closer towns we work in, border or no border.
Is a made-to-measure kitchen worth it in a small room?
Arguably it is worth more in a small room than a large one. In a big kitchen a wasted fifty millimetres disappears. In a small one it is the difference between somewhere to put the kettle down and nowhere to put 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 Brampton
- Bespoke kitchens in Longtown
- Bespoke kitchens in Penrith
- Bespoke kitchens in Keswick
- Bespoke kitchens in Cockermouth
- Bespoke kitchens in Appleby
- 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
