Bespoke Joinery in Mansfield

Who makes the joinery, and where?

Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens makes every piece of Mansfield joinery to measure in our own workshop, and the joiners who build it are the ones who fit it. That means one visit to survey and agree the design, then the fitting days in your house once the piece is made: typically three to seven working days on site, with a single pair of alcove units at the short end and a full wall of wardrobes or a wired media wall at the long end. Nothing arrives as a factory carcass waiting to be cut down to your alcove.

What does NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery mean for my job?

It means the joinery in your Mansfield home is designed and made by joiners qualified to NVQ Level 3 in Carpentry & Joinery, the advanced craft level of the trade, and Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens has over thirty years of fitted work behind it. Bespoke pieces are unforgiving: a wardrobe door that binds or an alcove unit with a visible gap at the wall is worse than no unit at all. We are happy to show you finished work before you commit.

How big can fitted wardrobes be in a Mansfield bedroom?

Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens builds fitted wardrobes in Mansfield from a single alcove to the full width of the room, and from floor to ceiling, so there is no dust-collecting gap on top. Hanging space needs an internal depth of around 600mm, which a bedroom chimney-breast alcove in a Berry Hill or Forest Town semi usually provides; where it is shallower, we use pull-out rails or shelving instead of fighting the depth. Sliding doors suit a room where the bed sits close to the wardrobe; hinged doors open the whole interior at once.

Fitted wardrobes made to measure

Can alcove units be made for recesses that are not square?

Yes: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens makes each Mansfield alcove unit for its own recess and scribes it to the wall on the day, because the two alcoves beside a terrace chimney breast are almost never the same width, depth or angle. The usual form is cupboards to around worktop height with open shelving above, built up to the ceiling or the picture rail. Where the original skirting survives, we match its profile on the plinth, so the unit looks as if it came with the house.

Alcove units and shelving

What goes into a media wall?

A media wall from Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens is a framed false wall built a short way in front of the existing one in your Mansfield living room, with timber set into the frame where the television bracket will go, a void behind for every cable, and cupboards or lit shelving either side. Our own electrician moves the sockets and aerial point into the void before the wall is boarded and finished, so the television hangs with nothing visible below it.

Media walls designed and built

What can be built into a knocked-through kitchen-diner?

Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens builds furniture for the long blank wall a Mansfield knock-through tends to leave: a dresser or tall larder in the same finish as the kitchen units, bench seating with drawers under it, or shelving across the old chimney breast that ties the two halves of the room together. Because we often fit the kitchen as well, the joinery is designed with it rather than added afterwards.

Painted, oiled or veneered: how is the joinery finished?

Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens primes and undercoats painted joinery in the workshop and gives it the final coat on site after fitting, so the last coat goes on after the last screw and covers the scribes. Oak, walnut and other veneers are oiled or lacquered to suit the room. A painted alcove unit is only ever as good as its finish, which is why we do not hand it over until it looks finished.