Fitted Furniture Design

Built-in joinery is designed here and made and fitted by two long-standing partner workshops. Between them they cover kitchens, fitted bedroom furniture, studies, home cinemas, home bars and media walls. We design it; they build and install it.

Designing it and building it are deliberately separate. We resolve the layout, the proportions, the internal configuration and how it meets the rest of the room; the workshops bring the manufacturing and the fitting. It means the joinery is designed as part of a scheme rather than sold as a product.

In practice that covers kitchens, fitted bedroom furniture and dressing rooms, studies and home offices, home cinemas and media walls, and home bars. Freestanding furniture (sofas, chairs, consoles, dining tables) is a different job and is on the bespoke furniture page.

Wardrobes and dressing rooms, media walls and cinema joinery, studies and home offices, bars, boot rooms and utility runs, and the storage that fits nowhere else: under a stair, into an awkward eaves, around a chimney breast.

Fitted furniture earns its cost where a room is an awkward shape or where the storage has to be dense. In a plain rectangular room, freestanding furniture is often the better answer and easier to change later.

The design is done here, in the showroom, with the finishes on the table alongside the fabrics and wallpapers for the rest of the room, so the joinery is specified as part of a scheme rather than on its own.

It is then made and installed by the two workshops we have worked with for years. They survey and template on site before anything is cut, which is what allows the finished piece to sit tight to walls that are never as straight as a drawing. Scribes, filler panels and the way a run meets skirting and coving are all decided at that stage rather than improvised on the day.

Joinery drawn to the plan rather than to the room, so it arrives a few millimetres out and gets packed with beading. Doors that clash with each other or with a bedroom door when both are open. A media wall with no ventilation or no route for cables. Handles chosen last, when they are one of the few parts you touch every day.

The other one is finish. A colour matched to a paint chart under showroom light can be a different colour in a north facing bedroom, which is why finishes are looked at in the light they will live in.

Schemes are put together in the showroom with real samples: fabric, wallpaper, timber and stone, in the light they will actually live in. Furniture and accessories are sourced directly from suppliers and manufacturers, and fitted joinery is designed here and installed by our partner workshops.

A design fee of £300 is charged for one room. This fee includes all aspects of the interior design services provided. If we are unable to supply a specific item or provide a service, we can usually recommend a company we have previously worked with that can meet your specific needs.

We want to ensure that you fully understand our proposals and that the outcome is what you desire. To assist you in making the right decision, we will provide as much product information as possible, including images, drawings, photographs of similar projects, sketches and samples. We can also provide furniture layouts and floor plans, and where required we use AI to produce 3D visualisations of the proposed design.

We aim to provide you with a flexible design and products that suit your needs, ensuring you are happy to place orders with us. A 10% discount will be applied to any orders, up until the total of £300 has been refunded per room. Therefore, if you spend £3,000 or more on the room, the design is effectively free of charge. Please note that any unused balance from a design fee is not transferable between rooms.

A 50% deposit is required when placing the orders, and the balance is due prior to delivery or installation. This is outlined in our terms and conditions.

Do you make the furniture yourselves?

No, and we say so plainly. It is designed here and built and fitted by long-standing partner workshops. That is the arrangement that produces the best result.

Can you match existing joinery?

Usually. A sample of the existing finish, or a spare door, gives the best chance of a close match.

Is fitted always more expensive than freestanding?

Not always, but usually. Where it wins is storage density and awkward spaces. In a simple room we will often recommend freestanding instead.

Where the joinery is doing the work: bespoke bedroom furniture, fitted storage and a headboard wall that spans the room.

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