Joiners in Nottingham
Joinery made to measure for Nottingham homes by joiners qualified to NVQ Level 3 in Carpentry & Joinery. Alcove cupboards for terrace front rooms, storage under the stairs, fitted wardrobes, media walls, and the smaller jobs such as hanging doors and replacing skirting, all measured in your house and built to fit it.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
- Rated 5.0 on Google (6 reviews)
- Distance from us
- about twenty-two miles — around forty-five minutes by road
- Survey usually within
- a week or so
- Travel charge
- None anywhere inside our 30-mile radius
- Trades on the job
- All ours — no subcontractors
How Do We Approach Bespoke Joinery in Nottingham?
Older Nottingham houses are full of spaces that off-the-shelf furniture cannot use. The front room of a Victorian terrace in Sherwood or Forest Fields has a chimney breast with a recess either side, and the two recesses are almost never the same width. The stairs rise through the middle of the house with a triangle of dead space beneath them. Bedrooms have a bulkhead over the stairwell or a chimney breast in the one place a wardrobe would go. Joinery made for the room turns all of that into storage that looks as if it was always there.
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens has been doing this work for more than thirty years. We are based in Creswell, about forty-five minutes from the city, and Nottingham is inside our thirty-mile radius, so there is no charge for travel. Each piece is designed with you, priced in writing after a visit, and made to our own measurements before fitting starts. Because our electricians and plasterers are part of the same team, a media wall that needs new sockets or a wardrobe that needs lighting is still one job.
What Joinery Do Nottingham's Houses Call For?
Alcove units are the classic terrace job for good reason. A cupboard below and shelving above, built to each recess separately and scribed to walls that lean, gives a front room storage without adding a single piece of freestanding furniture. The design choices are the height of the cupboard top, whether the shelves are open or behind doors, and how the unit meets the skirting and the picture rail where those survive. We make those decisions with you on paper first.
The space under the stairs is the other big opportunity, in terraces and semis alike. Instead of one door into a dark cupboard where things disappear, the void can hold deep pull-out drawers, a hanging section for coats and a shelf for shoes, each sized to the slope of the stairs. If the meters live under there, the design keeps them easy to reach. In the interwar and post-war semis of Arnold, Bestwood and the northern suburbs, where storage was an afterthought, this and a fitted wardrobe in the main bedroom are the two jobs that make the biggest difference.
In the bigger period houses, including those in conservation areas like The Park and Mapperley Park, the brief is often to match what is already there: a skirting profile, an architrave, a panelled door. Conservation area controls are mainly about the outside of a house, so interior joinery is not normally affected, though a listed building is a separate matter and we check. Where enough of an original moulding survives to copy, new work can be made to sit with it.
What are we asked for most?
- Alcove cupboards and shelving for chimney-breast recesses in the Victorian terraces
- Understairs drawers, cupboards and coat storage built to the slope of the stairs
- Fitted wardrobes around chimney breasts and stair bulkheads in the northern suburbs
- Internal doors, skirting and architrave, matched to older profiles where they survive
What Does Our Bespoke Joinery Include?
Every bespoke joinery job Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens takes on covers all 10 parts of the work, from strip-out and first fix to making good and the final clean, carried out by one in-house team of seven trades. See the full list of what is included.
How is a piece of fitted joinery designed?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens designs Nottingham joinery on paper first: the room is measured, the piece is drawn, and the door style, shelf spacing, interior layout and finish are agreed with you before any timber is ordered. Changing a line on a drawing costs nothing, and it is where most of the thinking in a good piece of joinery happens. The joiners who draw it hold NVQ Level 3 in Carpentry & Joinery and are the ones who fit it.
Can you fit wardrobes around a chimney breast or stair bulkhead?
Yes: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens builds fitted wardrobes into chimney-breast recesses and around the bulkhead over the stairwell, the two obstacles found in most Nottingham terrace and semi bedrooms. The carcasses are made to the measured height of the room and scribed to the ceiling and walls, so there is no gap above or beside them. Hanging, shelving and drawer space is divided to suit what you need to store.
Who moves the sockets and makes good the walls?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens does both with its own electricians and plasterers, as part of the same joinery programme. Built-in joinery often needs a socket moved, a light fitted inside a cupboard, or a wall made good after an old unit comes out. Because those trades are ours, you are not left arranging them around the joiner.
Do you hang doors and fit skirting as well?
Yes: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens hangs internal doors, eases ones that have dropped, and replaces skirting and architrave in Nottingham, with no travel charge added. Not every joinery enquiry is a wall of wardrobes. A single door or a set of alcove shelves is a job we are glad to come for, and a door going into an out-of-square Victorian frame is fitted with the same care as a full room of furniture.
What Else Might You Need?
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Where Else Near Nottingham Do We Fit Joinery?
- Kirkby-in-Ashfield — about thirteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Hucknall — about sixteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Mansfield — about nine miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Southwell — about fifteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Sutton-in-Ashfield — about twelve miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
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Bespoke Joinery in Nottingham: Questions We Get Asked
Will you come to Nottingham for one door or a single set of shelves?
What can be built into the alcoves of a terrace in Sherwood or Carrington?
Can you build a media wall with the cables hidden?
How long will a Nottingham joinery job take in the house?
Can new joinery match the older features in a Mapperley Park or Park house?
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