Discover the Advantages of Bespoke Joinery

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15 September 2024

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When fitting out your home or workspace, the decision between bespoke joinery and off-the-shelf is crucial.

While off-the-shelf options may offer a quick solution, they may also fall short in many areas where custom joinery excels. From design flexibility to aesthetic appeal to personalisation, bespoke joinery offers what standard designs cannot.

Ensuring you hire the right company for the job is also a crucial decision. Joinery is the craft of constructing and installing wooden components from cabinets to doors, dining tables and more. This craft embraces premium craftsmanship, and bespoke joinery brings a sense of individuality to a home, seamlessly blending functionality with your own design, resulting in something that will naturally become the focal point of any room.

Jason and Emily Brittin of Parkhill Joinery, Brittin Builders and Brittin Painting.

A timber kitchen enveloping elegant taste, boasting an incredible parquet floor.

Unmatched Choice and Flexibility

“The primary advantage of choosing custom joinery is choice,” explains Emily Brittin, CEO of Parkhill Joinery. Off-the-shelf furniture designs come with limited options in terms of design, materials and finishes - custom joinery allows you to have complete control over every aspect of the design process.

Parkhill Joinery specialises in working with specific materials that may be unique to your aesthetic, and if you have your heart set on a particular stone bench that is only available from a specific provider, custom joinery allows you to integrate it into your design seamlessly. “We can work with the joinery that may already be in place to match existing or include a particular design or product within the design. Parkhill Joinery has extremely high levels of experience and has often developed specially hand-crafted ‘Knives” to produce particular moulded skirting boards and ceiling battens.”

Custom joinery can be particularly effective in renovation projects by using “timber to match the existing design when doing renovations or alterations to improve both the aesthetics and the layout of buildings.” This promises attention to detail that off-the-shelf can’t match.

Aesthetic Appeal

“With custom joinery, a designer can stipulate a particular design to work with the style of an existing building or to be part of a cohesive look through the design of a new build,” says Emily. This also allows the Architect or Designer to match the joinery to your space perfectly, ensuring it looks great and promise longevity.

This project was a collaboration between Parkhill Joinery and Brittin Builders, and the panelling in the entrance is an absolute show-stopper.

This project saw a beautiful restoration and replacement of veranda posts machined in the factory and fitted on-site by Brittin Builders.

A simple yet stunning staircase that embraces the beauty of the finer details.

Personalised Design

The most standout benefit of custom joinery is, of course, the customisation. Designing a piece alongside an expert allows you to create a piece that will last for years to come, as well as truly reflect you and your unique aesthetic. This can also come into play in terms of specific needs and preferences, such as bespoke storage or sizes and shapes. “Our internal joinery can be extremely individual to the function of the space, for example, bin shapes and sizes, joinery to house white wear in kitchens or storage options with specific functions for kitchen items. Also, bespoke storage for TVs and audio equipment.”

Customisation also truly shines in spaces with unique architectural features or irregular room layouts such as bathrooms, storage facilities or rooms with awkward shapes. “Pre-made joinery cannot provide a solution that is either functional or aesthetically pleasing in the way that custom-built furniture will be. You are able to build specifically for the space and not the other way around.”

“This joinery can be created to not only meet the brief and design but also the budget, allowing value for money to be achieved as only what is needed is produced and no space is wasted.”

The Parkhill Joinery Experience

At Parkhill Joinery, the customisation process embraces collaboration, ensuring that the final product aligns perfectly with the client’s vision - a crucial factor when it comes to curating your perfect interior piece. “When a customer comes to Parkhill Joinery, they either come with an idea and a sheaf of Pinterest pictures, or they come with a set of plans from a designer or plans drawn by an architect that has been signed off in council,” explains Emily. “ The first stage is to draw a design in 2D after meeting with the client in the space and talking about design and functionality. Then we do a 3D computer-generated set of pictures showing the design from a number of different angles. Then we alter and adapt the design until the client is 100% happy to sign off on both the design and the pricing. We then stay in regular contact, liasing with both the client and often also the builder and the designer to keep them informed of where production is up to. Then, when the work is completed, we work with the timeframes of the builder to either deliver to the site for the builder to install or install ourselves.”

Ready to transform your space with custom joinery? Enquire with Parkhill Joinery today and discover bespoke solutions tailored to your needs.

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