Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Appleby

Appleby-in-Westmorland sits in the upper Eden Valley, sandstone again, with Boroughgate running down from the castle to the river. Around it are farms and estate cottages, and a steady amount of restoration work on older properties. It is the furthest regular corner of our area and the houses there are almost uniformly old.

Work this far out is planned rather than casual, so we do more of it in one visit: kitchen, utility and boot room drawn together, fitted in one programme, by the same men. It is a better way to do it in any case, because the three rooms share a wall more often than not.

We make the carcasses, so the wardrobes finish at the ceiling instead of stopping short of it, the run finishes at the wall instead of stopping short of that, and the sloping ceiling in the back bedroom stops being a reason you cannot have storage there.