Gretna, Dumfriesshire
Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Gretna
The houses here
Why a standard one will not fit.
Gretna is the first town over the border and a short run up the road from us. The housing is a mixture: the planned township built for the munitions works in 1915, post-war housing around it, newer estates, and farms out towards the Solway and the Esk. The 1915 township houses in particular were built to a plan and to a budget, and the kitchens in them are small rooms that reward being thought about properly.
A small kitchen is the hardest kind to buy off the shelf and the easiest kind to improve by making it to measure. When the room is nine feet by eight, fifty millimetres of filler panel in the wrong place is the difference between a usable worktop and a useless one.
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.
- 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
Gretna: the questions we get
Do you cross the border to Gretna?
Yes. Southwest Scotland is part of the area we have always covered, and Gretna is one of the closer towns we work in, border or no border.
Is a made-to-measure kitchen worth it in a small room?
Arguably it is worth more in a small room than a large one. In a big kitchen a wasted fifty millimetres disappears. In a small one it is the difference between somewhere to put the kettle down and nowhere to put the kettle down.
Can you fit wardrobes under a sloping ceiling?
Yes, and it is one of the better arguments for having them made. A slope defeats standard units completely, but it is only an angle on a drawing, and the space under it is usually the only spare storage in the room.
Do the wardrobes go right to the ceiling?
If you want them to. Because we cut the carcasses, the height is set by your ceiling rather than by what a supplier stocks, which usually gains a full shelf across the whole wall.
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Talk to the workshop
Come to Dalston and look.
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- Friday
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