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Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

Bespoke kitchens in Lockerbie

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.

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.

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

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.

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