Made at Dalston since 1972

Home offices and studies

Desk, shelves and cupboards built into the room as one piece of furniture. Working from home stopped being temporary some years ago, and a desk from a furniture shop in the corner of a bedroom has never been a good answer.

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A fitted home study in deep blue-green in-frame cabinets: a desk with an oak worktop built in under a sash window, banks of drawers with brass cup handles, and glazed bookcases either side — Illustrative. Not a photograph of our work.

The argument

Built into the room, not placed in it

The useful thing about a fitted study is that the desk, the shelves and the storage are one object, so there are no gaps to collect dust, no wobble, and no wasted strip of floor between the desk and the wall.

It also means the desk can be exactly where the light is. A window in the wrong place for a bought desk is not in the wrong place for a made one.

At Threlkeld we built a full library and media wall facing a window onto the fells, in deep green, with glazed cabinets either side. It is a study, a library and a sitting room wall in one run of joinery.

HOME OFFICES AND STUDIES · SPECIFICATIONThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston

Carcass: Birch ply, cut and machined at Dalston, lipped
Desk: At the height and depth the room and the window need
Shelving: Drawn to the books, not to a standard module
Painted: Pre-primed in-house, hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell
Timber: Two-pack lacquer, satin, tough and maintenance free
Cables: Routed inside the joinery

Made at: Dalston
Fitted by: Our own men
Trading since: 1972
Drawings kept: Always

From our own jobs

Rooms we have already made.

Fitted library and media wall at Threlkeld in deep green, glazed cabinets either side of the television, facing a window onto the fells

A study built as one piece of furniture gives you a desk at the right height for the window you actually have, shelving that fits the books you actually own, and cupboards that hide the printer and the cables.

Named and dated

Real houses, with the month on them.

01ThrelkeldA green library wall facing the fells, ThrelkeldJuly 2022

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.

Home offices and studies: what people ask

Can you build a study into an alcove?

An alcove is the best place for one. Desk across the alcove at the depth the alcove gives you, shelves above, cupboards below, and the whole thing finishing flush with the chimney breast rather than standing proud of it.

Can the same run of furniture be a study and a television wall?

Yes, and it often should be, because most rooms are asked to do both. The Threlkeld job is exactly that: library, media wall and storage in one piece of joinery.

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 02Fitted bedrooms and wardrobesWardrobes cut to the wall you have, not the wall a catalogue assumed.See the work 03Boot rooms and utility roomsThe room that takes the weather, the dog and the washing.See the work 04Dressing roomsA spare bedroom turned into the room you get ready in.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