Shortstown is largely new housing, so the joinery there is nearly always about adding storage and character to rooms that started out plain. Fitted wardrobes, handmade kitchens, staircases, under-stairs storage and one-off bespoke pieces across Shortstown and the MK42 postcodes around it.
Shortstown is nearly all recent housing, which means square rooms, plasterboard walls and a builder specification that stops at the bare minimum, so the joinery there is about adding the storage, the media walls and the character that were left out of the plot. In practice most of what we are asked for around Shortstown is fitted wardrobes, with everything else on the list available alongside it.
Hinged, sliding and recessed wardrobes made to the exact run of your room, scribed into sloping ceilings, chimney breasts and out-of-square walls so there is no gap at the top and no filler down the side.
02Handmade and made to measure kitchens, from the first sketch through to the last bit of scribe.
03The jobs that do not come in a box.
04New staircases fitted and old ones brought back to life.
05The space under the stairs is usually a cupboard with a hoover in it and a metre of dead air above.
06Alcove shelving, bookcases, cupboard and shelf combinations and fitted home offices.
07Doors hung and ironmongery fitted, internal glazed and crittall style screens, wood and parquet floors laid, skirting, architrave, coving, window boards and boxing in.
08Composite and timber decking, raised decks and steps, garden structures and the small roofs and external carpentry that go with them.
Across Shortstown (MK42) it is mostly fitted wardrobes, media walls and home office joinery in newly built housing. Shortstown is nearly all recent housing, which means square rooms, plasterboard walls and a builder specification that stops at the bare minimum, so the joinery there is about adding the storage, the media walls and the character that were left out of the plot. Every job is priced after a proper measure up rather than over the phone, because the size of the room and the state of the walls decide most of the cost.
No, travel is in the price. Shortstown is roughly 4 km from the workshop in Bedford, well inside the patch we cover as a matter of course, so you are paying for the joinery rather than for the van. The only thing that changes the price is the job itself: the size of the run, the materials and how much has to come out before anything new goes in.
Yes. Shortstown is largely new housing, so the joinery there is nearly always about adding storage and character to rooms that started out plain. The workshop is in Bedford and we cover the surrounding Bedfordshire towns and villages as standard, out to Milton Keynes and Northampton, so Shortstown is well inside our normal patch. Call and tell us what the room is and what you want out of it and you will get a straight answer on timing.
It makes the building side easier and the design side more important. Rooms in Shortstown are generally square and the walls are plumb, so the fitting is straightforward. What changes is the fixing: a lot of new build walls are plasterboard on studs or dot and dab, which means anything carrying real weight has to be fixed into the studs or properly pattressed rather than into the board. We check what the wall actually is before we quote, because it decides how the piece is built.
Fitting is usually the short part. A run of fitted wardrobes is generally one to three days on site, under-stairs storage is two to four, a staircase refurbishment is a day or two and a kitchen runs to one or two weeks. What sets the overall timescale is the making, which happens in the workshop beforehand, and the lead time on any doors or worktops being ordered in. You get the full sequence in writing at the quote.
Yes, and that is how every job should start. The design consultation is free and there is no obligation attached to it. We come out to Shortstown, look at the room, take the measurements, talk through what you want it to do and follow up with a written price. Nothing gets ordered or made until you have seen that price and agreed the design.
Yes. Plenty of what we do is a single alcove, one set of shelves, a boiler cover, a bank of drawers or replacing the spindles on a staircase. Small jobs get the same measure up and the same written price as a full kitchen, and we would rather do a small piece properly than turn it away. If it is genuinely a half-hour job, we will say so and point you in the right direction.
Tell us what you are after and we will book a free design consultation.
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