Brampton, Cumbria
Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Brampton

The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Brampton is a sandstone market town with a cobbled square, sitting under the line of Hadrian's Wall. The houses in the middle are old. Most are listed or in the conservation area. The country round Talkin and Lanercost is farms and converted agricultural buildings. Both kinds of property share one thing. The room dictates the furniture, not the other way round.
Conservation-area work needs furniture that suits the age of the building. It should not pretend to be older than it is. A hand-painted in-frame kitchen in a quiet colour usually sits better in a Brampton town house than a modern slab door. And a painted finish can be matched to what is already in the room.
We make fitted bedrooms and fitted wardrobes for houses across Carlisle, Penrith and the rest of Cumbria. Because we cut the carcasses, the wardrobes finish at your ceiling. The run finishes at your wall. The sloping ceiling in the back bedroom stops being a reason you cannot have storage there.
- Carcass
- Birch ply, cut and machined at Dalston, lipped
- Fronts
- Hand-painted in-frame, mirrored or timber
- Interiors
- Hanging, shelving and drawers drawn to what you own
- Painted
- Pre-primed in-house, hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell
- Timber
- Two-pack lacquer, satin, tough and maintenance free
- Height
- To your ceiling, not to a standard carcass height
- Made at
- Dalston
- Fitted by
- Our own men
- Trading since
- 1972
- Drawings kept
- Always
Brampton: the questions we get
Do you work on listed buildings around Brampton?
Yes. Free-standing and fitted furniture both have a place in an older building. We make everything ourselves, so we can work to what the building needs and to any consent conditions. Not to a catalogue of standard sizes.
Will a hand-painted kitchen suit an old sandstone house?
Usually better than anything else. Painted in-frame cabinets have the same lines as the joinery that would first have been in the house. The colour is chosen to sit with the stone, not to stand out against it.
Can you fit wardrobes under a sloping ceiling?
Yes, and it is one of the better reasons to have them made. A slope beats standard units completely. On a drawing it is only an angle. The space under it is usually the only spare storage in the room.
Do the wardrobes go right up to the ceiling?
If you want them to. We cut the carcasses, so the height is set by your ceiling and not by what a supplier stocks. It usually gains a full shelf across the whole wall.
Nearby
We work right across this area.
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- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Longtown
- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Penrith
- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Keswick
- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Cockermouth
- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Appleby
- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Gretna
- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Annan
- Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Lockerbie
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
