Painted Bookshelves & Cabinet

A few photographs to illustrate one of my favourite projects of 2023. With painted furniture the customers choice of colour can often bring life and vibrancy to the project as it has here. The alcove fitted cabinets with a bookcase above has become one of our signature pieces. Together with our fitted wardrobes, kitchen larders ...

Pair of Alcove Cabinets with Shelving

Our first project built in our new workshop. We designed and constructed this pair of alcove units for a property in central Brighton. Each cabinet comprises a 2 door cabinet at the base with deep shelving above. The cabinets are spray finished in F&B eggshell paint.

Living Room Cabinets with Sliding Doors

We produced this set of cabinets for a newly refurbished room in the Seven Dials area of Brighton. The family had created a large living room by knocking through to join the original 2 smaller rooms resulting in a big bright space with 4 alcoves along one side. Each piece comprises a birch plywood cupboard ...

Large bookcase with cabinets and drawers

Our customer chose 'Blue Spruce', a bold choice of paint colour for this large fitted bookcase. The piece comprises 4 cabinets, 4 drawers and adjustable shelving above. The cabinet is a full four metres wide and stands as the focal point in this Sussex living room. We are very pleased with the striking result.

Fitted Bookcases

I was asked to build a couple of fitted bookcases for a flat in the Clifton Hill / Montpelier neighbourhood of Brighton. The first piece is set into an alcove in the living room. Comprising of simple shelving above a 3 door cabinet. The interior of the cabinets is constructed from birch-plywood. The exterior components ...

Pair of Fitted Bookcases

We built and installed a pair of fitted bookcases in an apartment in the Cliftonville area, Hove. The Victorian era property underwent an extensive refurbishment. This included a new floor, heating and complete re-decoration. The client chose a matt paint in 'Inchyra Blue'. This contrasts with the solid oak cabinet-tops. The bold choice of colour ...

Beautiful Fitted Bookcase

My clients asked for a large fitted bookcase for their room in Brighton. They asked for a design to match another large bookcase on the adjacent wall. It stands a full 3 metres tall and 2.1m wide. Books and pictures are displayed across the shelving, CDs, DVDs and electrical cables are all tucked away out ...

Two Children’s Bedrooms

A family moving into a modern home in Hove commissioned us to build this pair of rooms for their young children. Each room comprises a king sized bed surrounded by cabinets and shelving. Large open shelves along one side of the bed and bookcase style, adjustable shelving on the opposite wall. Some alterations were needed ...

Two Bespoke Bookcases

The photographs here show a couple of bookcases we recently completed. The larger one, comprising of a pair of cabinets with shelving above is spray finished in 'slipper satin' coloured paint. The second piece, in a similar style includes a 2 door cabinet, the colour here is 'all white'. If you would like a quote ...

Study Furniture

On many occasions over the years I have been commissioned to work for academics from the University of Sussex. Most often, as you might guess, to build bookcases. This slightly larger scale project includes a desk, shelving, a drawer unit and a storage cabinet. A solid oak kitchen worktop serves here as a desk. Built ...

Living Room Cabinet

This project, completed this December, is a piece of living-room furniture ~ In essence a sideboard with shelving above. The cabinet worktop here is a single board spanning the full length and is illuminated from the back with dimmable LED lights. Beneath this, the row of drawers and cabinets are built with an oak veneer ...

Bookcase across an archway

Bookcases have become a focus of my work over the years, this example was a great project which I have recently completed. The large high-ceilinged room at the heart of the property features an archway where 2 rooms have been knocked through to create one big space. The bookcase makes a feature of this arch and is ...

Illuminated Cabinets

Here I have designed and built a pair of illuminated display cabinets. They hang above some existing fitted furniture. The toughened glass shelving and  glazed doors allow the LED fittings to light the whole cabinet. Another project at the same property is pictured below, a corner bookcase, spray finished with white paint.

Fitted Bookcase

I built this large fitted bookcase for an apartment in Brighton. Access was slightly tricky at this location, so it took some planning to make sure each piece could be taken in and assembled without any problems. For projects such as this one, all the cutting and construction work is done at my workshop. The ...

Alcove ‘Floating’ Shelves

Over the years I have built thousands of these simple 'floating' shelves, so called because they have no visible brackets or fixings.The shelves pictured here are constructed from MDF and have been painted with a white satin finish.They are a great way to use the space in an alcove and to transform the look of ...

Gallery shelves

Over the many years that I have been working in carpentry & joinery I have often been asked to help out with art projects, this has ranged from building frames for painters, light-boxes for photographers and even large scale installations, theatre sets and props for film and television. I have added a couple of photographs ...

Custom Built Bookcase

The photographs here show another example of a fitted bookcase for clients in Hove.

The construction is from white laminated board with an oak frame. The bookcase is built in 2 sections, one with deep shelves for vinyl records, and a second with shallower shelving for books.

Oak Bookshelves

If you have had a chance to browse the website, you may have noticed that bookcases have increasingly become a main focus of my work. More recently I have developed 2 designs which have proven popular with my clients and can be adapted in terms of size and layout to suit any situation.

The first photograph ...