Made at Dalston since 1972

Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes

Wardrobes cut to the wall you have, not the wall a catalogue assumed. A wardrobe wall is where the difference between made and bought shows fastest, because a bedroom almost never has the ceiling height, the wall length or the corner that a modular system expects.

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Fitted bedroom in cream, with mirrored wardrobe doors, a dressing area and lit display cabinets — Made at Lingey Close, Dalston.

The argument

The gap at the top is the giveaway

Look at most fitted wardrobes and there is a foot of dusty nothing between the top of the unit and the ceiling, because the units come in standard heights and the ceiling does not.

Made-to-measure closes that gap, which in a bedroom is usually a full extra shelf of storage across the whole wall. In an older house with high ceilings it can be two.

The same applies to the awkward corners: the chimney breast, the bay, the sloping ceiling under the roof. Those are the places a bedroom wastes space, and they are precisely the places furniture drawn for the room can use.

FITTED BEDROOMS AND WARDROBES · SPECIFICATIONThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston

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

From our own jobs

Rooms we have already made.

Fitted bedroom in grey, with full-height wardrobes either side of a stone fireplace

Fitted dressing room at Dornock with mirrored wardrobe fronts down both walls and a free-standing island of drawers

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.

Where we work

Cumbria, and over the border.

We fit our own furniture across north Cumbria and into Dumfriesshire. Two of the jobs on this site are in Scotland, in the same house, two years apart.

Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes: what people ask

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.

Can the bedroom match a kitchen you fitted for us before?

Yes, and it happens often. We keep the drawings and the specification, so a bedroom done two years after the kitchen can be finished in the same paint, with the same handles and the same detailing.

The rest of the house

We make all of it.

01Bespoke kitchensMade in our own workshop at Dalston, and fitted by our own men.See the work 02Boot rooms and utility roomsThe room that takes the weather, the dog and the washing.See the work 03Dressing roomsA spare bedroom turned into the room you get ready in.See the work 04Home offices and studiesDesk, shelves and cupboards built into the room as one piece of furniture.See the work 05Media walls and TV unitsThe television, the boxes and the cables, put away inside the joinery.See the work 06Kitchen islands and lardersThe two pieces people remember, and the two worth making properly.See the work 07Free-standing furnitureWhere Bob Postlethwaite started in 1972, and we still make it.See the work

Talk to the workshop

Come and see one before you buy one.

01228 710085

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Lingey Close, Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA5 7LB. Parking on site.

Monday to Thursday: 8am – 5pm
Friday: 8am – 3.30pm
Saturday: 8am – 12pm
Sunday: Closed