Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes in Penrith

Penrith is red sandstone and the Eden Valley behind it is farmhouses, stone barns and a steady run of conversions. The barn work is the interesting part: a converted agricultural building usually gives you height, exposed trusses and a very large open room, and then no two walls that meet at a right angle. Standard units in a room like that leave gaps you can put your hand in.

The Eden Valley conversions tend to want one long run and an island, because the room is big enough to need a working centre. An island is also the piece where making it ourselves shows most plainly: it can be any length the room wants, it can carry a table on the end of it, and it does not have to be assembled out of two standard boxes and a filler panel.

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.