Penrith, Cumbria
Bespoke kitchens in Penrith

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Penrith is red sandstone and the Eden Valley behind it is farmhouses, stone barns and a steady run of conversions. The barn work is the interesting part: a converted agricultural building usually gives you height, exposed trusses and a very large open room, and then no two walls that meet at a right angle. Standard units in a room like that leave gaps you can put your hand in.
The Eden Valley conversions tend to want one long run and an island, because the room is big enough to need a working centre. An island is also the piece where making it ourselves shows most plainly: it can be any length the room wants, it can carry a table on the end of it, and it does not have to be assembled out of two standard boxes and a filler panel.
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.
- 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
Our own job, near Penrith
Arched windows and a white island, Carrfoot Lodge

Penrith: the questions we get
Do you fit kitchens in barn conversions near Penrith?
Yes, and they are some of the best rooms to work in. A conversion usually has the height and the space, and what it does not have is a straight wall, so the furniture has to be drawn to the building. We measure it, draw it and make it to that drawing.
Can you make an island long enough for a room that size?
We can make it whatever length the room wants, because we build the carcasses. An island is not limited to the sizes a supplier happens to stock, and it can carry a breakfast table built into the end of it if that suits how the room is used.
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.
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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
