Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Longtown

Longtown sits on the Esk with the Scottish border a couple of miles further on, and it is a farming town more than anything else. The housing is a mix of older cottages on the main street, post-war housing behind it, and farms out towards the Solway and the Kershope forests. It is the sort of place where a kitchen is expected to last twenty years and take a hammering in the meantime.

We cross the border constantly, so a Longtown job and a job the other side of the line are the same job to us. Utility rooms and boot rooms come up as often as kitchens, because the houses out here take weather and livestock in through the back door all year.

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.