Joiners in Rotherham

Joinery for Rotherham's Terraces and Suburbs

In a Masbrough or Eastwood terrace the front room usually has a chimney breast with a recess on each side, and the two recesses are seldom the same size. Alcove cupboards with shelving above are the classic answer, built to each recess separately. The same houses have a rear outrigger where the kitchen or bathroom sits, reached through a doorway that has often lost its original architrave. Where enough of the original skirting and architrave survives to copy, we can match the profile, so that new joinery and replacement mouldings sit with the house rather than against it.

The inter-war and post-war semis at Herringthorpe, East Dene, Kimberworth, Broom and Brinsworth were built with very little storage. The understairs cupboard is usually a dark triangle with the meter at the back, and the bedrooms have a chimney breast or a bulkhead over the stairs that leaves no clean wall for a wardrobe. Fitted drawers and cupboards that use the full depth under the stairs, and wardrobes built around the awkward parts of a bedroom, add storage without adding furniture.

East of town, at Wickersley, Bramley, Whiston and Thrybergh, the larger houses bring larger pieces: floor-to-ceiling wardrobes with a planned interior, a dressing area where a small bedroom can be given up, a media wall with the cables hidden and the shelving lit, storage by the back door for coats and boots. These take more design time, and the drawing stage is where most of the value is added.

What are we asked for most?

• Alcove cupboards and shelving for the chimney-breast recesses in the Masbrough, Eastwood and Clifton terraces
• Doors re-hung or replaced, with skirting and architrave matched to the original profiles where they survive
• Understairs storage and fitted wardrobes in the post-war semis at Herringthorpe, East Dene and Kimberworth
• Media walls, walk-in wardrobes and home offices in the larger houses at Wickersley, Bramley and Whiston