Made at Dalston since 1972

Dressing rooms

A spare bedroom turned into the room you get ready in. A dressing room is usually a spare bedroom nobody sleeps in. Turning it into the room you get ready in is one of the biggest changes you can make to a house for the money. Almost nobody sells it, because it cannot be bought in a box.

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Fitted dressing room at Dornock with mirrored wardrobe fronts down both walls and a free-standing island of drawers — Dressing room, Dornock, Dumfriesshire. Fitted July 2025.

The argument

A wall of wardrobes is not a dressing room

The difference is the middle of the room. A dressing room has an island or a bench. So there is somewhere to put things down, somewhere to sit, and drawers at waist height instead of on the floor.

The insides are solved too. Hanging at two heights where you need it. Full height where the long coats go. Shallow drawers for what should not be folded. Light inside the furniture, not one bulb in the ceiling.

None of that can be bought as a product. All of it can be drawn.

DRESSING ROOMS · SPECIFICATIONThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston

Carcass: Birch ply, cut and machined at Dalston, lipped
Fronts: Hand-painted in-frame, mirrored where it helps the light
Island: Free-standing drawer island, made to the room
Interiors: Hanging, shelving and drawers drawn to what you own
Painted: Pre-primed in-house, hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell
Lighting: Planned into the joinery rather than left to the ceiling

Made at: Dalston
Fitted by: Our own men
Trading since: 1972
Drawings kept: Always

From our own jobs

Rooms we have already made.

Fitted bedroom in cream, with mirrored wardrobe doors, a dressing area and lit display cabinets

We made one at Dornock in July 2025. Mirrored fronts down both walls, and a free-standing island of drawers in the middle of the room.

Named and dated

Real houses, with the month on them.

01Dornock, DumfriesshireA dressing room over the border, DornockJuly 2025

Where we work

Cumbria, and over the border.

We fit our own furniture across north Cumbria and into Dumfriesshire. Two of the jobs on this site are in Scotland, in the same house, two years apart.

Dressing rooms: what people ask

How big does a room need to be for a dressing room?

Smaller than people expect. A single bedroom will usually take wardrobes down both sides and a narrow bench or a shallow island down the middle. Below that it becomes a walk-in wardrobe wall, which is still worth doing.

Should the fronts be mirrored?

Often yes. A dressing room is usually an inner room with one window, and mirror puts the light back into it. At Dornock we ran mirror down both walls for that reason.

The rest of the house

We make all of it.

01Bespoke kitchensMade in our own workshop at Dalston, and fitted by our own men.See the work 02Fitted bedrooms and wardrobesWardrobes cut to the wall you have, not the wall a catalogue assumed.See the work 03Boot rooms and utility roomsThe room that takes the weather, the dog and the washing.See the work 04Home offices and studiesDesk, shelves and cupboards built into the room as one piece of furniture.See the work 05Media walls and TV unitsThe television, the boxes and the cables, put away inside the joinery.See the work 06Kitchen islands and lardersThe two pieces people remember, and the two worth making properly.See the work 07Free-standing furnitureWhere Bob Postlethwaite started in 1972, and we still make it.See the work

Talk to the workshop

Come and see one before you buy one.

01228 710085

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Lingey Close, Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA5 7LB. Parking on site.

Monday to Thursday: 8am – 5pm
Friday: 8am – 3.30pm
Saturday: 8am – 12pm
Sunday: Closed