One building, and everything happens in it.
Stonham Road, Mickfield. Boards come in one end and finished kitchens leave the other.
One building on Stonham Road at Mickfield, six miles north of Stowmarket. Boards come in one end and finished kitchens leave the other. Nothing is subcontracted and nothing is white-labeled.
Bench by benchHow we make itDrawing, the full-size rod, machining, assembly, finishing, dry-fit and the container.Read it →
MaterialTimberWhich species we use where, why the cut matters more than the name, and where the boards actually come from.Read it →
FinishPaint and finishSprayed or hand-brushed, matched by eye by one polisher, in our own booth. Nothing is sent out.Read it →
PeopleThe makersNine people, named, who draw, machine, build, finish and fit every kitchen we sell.Read it →
What you would see
A job at every stage on the same morning. Boards being cut and left to settle. Face frames clamped up. A door being fitted to its frame with a plane. A carcass on the bench with its drawer boxes going in. Something in the finishing room between coats. A rod on the wall above each job, drawn full size by hand.
Nothing is set up for a visit. If a door is out by a thirty-second of an inch when you arrive, you will see it being corrected.
Why it is all in one building
Because the alternative is a chain of companies each blaming the last. A kitchen drawn in one place, machined in another, painted by a third and fitted by a fourth has four opportunities to be wrong and nobody who owns the whole of it.
Here the man who cut the scribe is the man who fits it, and the man who mixed the color is the man who touches it in on handover day. That is worth more on a kitchen crossing the Atlantic than on one going twenty miles up the A140.
Coming to see it
There is no showroom and we are not going to build one. There is a workshop, and you are welcome in it by appointment. Most American clients come once before commissioning and once while the kitchen is on the benches.
Visit the workshop →
Why English cabinetmaking still exists →
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Where the house is, roughly when you would like to be cooking in it, and what you have in mind. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.
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