A cabinetmaking workshop with long benches, hand tools and part-assembled cabinets

Inside the workshops

Drawn, built, sprayed and fitted by the same fourteen people, in two buildings on the Bromfield Road.

Nothing leaves the county

A lot of companies who say "handmade" mean a carcass ordered from a factory and a door ordered from a different one. We do not do that. Timber arrives at Fernhill as boards, and leaves as a kitchen.

It is slower and it costs more. It also means that when something is wrong we can fix it, because the person who made it is thirty feet from the person who drew it.

How a kitchen
gets made

Four stages, all under our own roof. Typical build time is ten to fourteen weeks from signed drawings to handover.

A designer's hands over a hand-drawn kitchen plan with a scale rule and timber sample

01 — Drawn

We measure your room ourselves, then draw it by hand before it goes anywhere near CAD. You get elevations you can actually read.

A craftsman hand-sanding a painted cabinet door at a workbench

02 — Built

Carcasses and doors are made together on the bench, so the reveals match. Solid tulipwood frames, dovetailed drawer boxes, no staples.

A cabinet door on trestles in a spray booth beside rows of paint tins and colour cards

03 — Sprayed

Our own booth, our own mixing. Any colour matched from a card, in eggshell, matt or full gloss, with a lacquer that survives a family.

Two fitters installing a run of painted kitchen cabinetry with a spirit level

04 — Fitted

Fitted by our own team, never subcontracted. Scribed to your walls, however far out of true they turn out to be.

Come and see it being made

The workshops are open to visit on weekdays. Most people find an hour on the bench more useful than an hour in a showroom.

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