Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire
Bespoke kitchens in Lockerbie

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Lockerbie is a Dumfriesshire market town on the main line north. It has a sandstone centre and a wide farming hinterland behind it, running up into the Moffat hills. The properties we are asked about there are mostly farmhouses and older stone houses. There is the occasional steading conversion too.
Steading conversions have the same problem as the Cumbrian barns. A beautiful big room with no square corner in it. The gain from making the furniture is simple. A wall out by forty millimetres over three metres stops being a problem. It becomes a dimension on a drawing.
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
Lockerbie: the questions we get
Do you work as far north as Lockerbie?
Yes. It is towards the outer edge of the area we cover in Dumfriesshire. Work up there is generally planned as a single programme rather than split across several visits.
What happens when a steading wall is not straight?
It gets measured, and the measurement goes on the drawing. A wall out by forty millimetres over three metres will defeat a run of standard carcasses. It will not trouble furniture that was cut to that wall in the first place.
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.
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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
