Thwaite Holme
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Gretna, Dumfriesshire

Bespoke kitchens in Gretna

Made at Lingey Close in Dalston and fitted by our own men.

Barn conversion kitchen near Bassenthwaite under an exposed king-post truss, with a navy island and pale in-frame cabinets
Made at Lingey Close, Dalston.

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, and farms out towards the Solway and the Esk. The 1915 township houses in particular were built to a plan and to a budget, and the kitchens in them are small rooms that reward being thought about properly.

A small kitchen is the hardest kind to buy off the shelf and the easiest kind to improve by making it to measure. When 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 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.

BESPOKE KITCHENS · SPECIFICATIONThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston
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 is part of the area we have always covered, and 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 the kettle down.

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.

Talk to the workshop

Come to Dalston and look.

01228 710085
Book a showroom visitor come in. No appointment needed to look round.
Lingey Close, Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA5 7LB. Parking on site.
Monday to Thursday
8am – 5pm
Friday
8am – 3.30pm
Saturday
8am – 12pm
Sunday
Closed