Cockermouth, Cumbria
Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Cockermouth
The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Cockermouth is a Georgian town where the Cocker meets the Derwent. A great deal of its housing has been rebuilt from the ground floor up since the floods of 2009 and 2015. So the town has a lot of fairly recent kitchens. Many went in quickly under insurance. The houses around them are otherwise two hundred years old.
A kitchen that went in fast after a flood is often the wrong kitchen for the house. Standard units in a Georgian room with high skirtings and deep window reveals. Replacing it with furniture made for the room is one of the more satisfying jobs we get. It usually causes less disruption than the first one did.
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
Cockermouth: the questions we get
Do you replace kitchens that went in after the floods?
We do, and it is common work in Cockermouth. A kitchen fitted in a hurry under an insurance claim is generally a standard one. A Georgian room with deep reveals and tall skirtings deserves better than that.
How do you handle a Georgian room with high ceilings?
By using the height instead of ignoring it. Tall cabinets. A proper cornice line. A larder that goes up rather than sideways. We make the carcasses, so the height of a unit is a decision and not a limit.
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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Talk to the workshop
Come to Dalston and look.
01228 710085- Monday to Thursday
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- Friday
- 8am – 3.30pm
- Saturday
- 8am – 12pm
- Sunday
- Closed