A family-run workshop on Westward Road in Cainscross, on the western edge of Stroud where the Five Valleys meet. Nick and Sarah Croome have made kitchens, cabinetwork and freestanding furniture here since the early 1980s, in native English hardwoods and hand-painted finishes, built and fitted by our own bench of ten master cabinetmakers. Every commission is drawn around your room, not pulled off a shelf.
Kitchens, freestanding furniture, cabinetwork and the project management to carry the whole room. Every line drawn for your house and built by our own master cabinetmakers.
Four house styles, drawn for the room and hand-built on the bench. Early English with hand-turned handles and exposed hinges, Classic Country with its moulded ovolo bead, the Shaker-led New Country, and the floating Townhaus. Polished native hardwood or hand-painted, with worktops in English oak, slate, Carrara marble or honed granite.
Tables, dressers, armoires, linen cupboards, beds, and whole fitted libraries and studies. Built in English timbers and hand-painted finishes to suit your house rather than a catalogue. The oak refectory table and the turned-baluster pedestal both started as boards chosen here in Cainscross.
Freestanding and fitted cabinetry, larders and dressers, with internal spice racks, hand-cut joints and a permanent finish. The metal, leather and glass fittings are commissioned from named makers in the valleys, so a single larder can carry the work of four local hands.
One workshop for the whole room. We manage the lighting, tiling, plumbing, flooring, stonework and finishings, and we are authorised agents for AGA, Lacanche, KitchenAid, Corian, COMPAC Quartz and Dekton, so the range and the worktop are specified alongside the cabinets, not after them.
Nothing arrives flat-packed. The board is chosen by hand, the joints cut on our own bench, the finish put on in-house, and the same team fits it on site. It is the slower way, and it is why a kitchen we built thirty years ago still shuts the way it did the day it went in.
“Our aim has always been to provide excellence while keeping traditional skills alive, to preserve the natural world through sustainable practices, and to respect and reward the people who work with us.” Nick Croome, founder
Timber chosen by hand from English hardwood stock, ninety per cent of it sourced within thirty miles of the workshop, machined and let to settle.
Joints cut and the cabinet built by our own ten master cabinetmakers in the Cainscross workshop, by traditional construction methods.
Polished in native hardwood or hand-painted in-house, with handmade metal, leather and glass fittings commissioned from local makers.
Installed by the same team, with the lighting, tiling, stonework and worktop all managed by us so the room arrives finished.
Nick Croome founded the workshop in the early 1980s. He read resistant materials at Brunel College in Bristol, then learned his trade through years of woodworking abroad, including a spell with the Prickly Mountain makers in Vermont, before bringing it home to Stroud. He runs the business now with his wife Sarah and a permanent bench of ten master cabinetmakers.
The difference between a bespoke kitchen and a fitted one lives in the details most people never name. We hold four house styles, and each is defined by its joinery, not just its colour.
A short note by email and we will come back to arrange a showroom visit and an indicative price. A photo of the room, or of a piece you are matching, is worth more than a paragraph. Or call the workshop on 01453 753335, or visit us on Westward Road, Monday to Friday.
31-35 Westward Road, Cainscross
Stroud, Gloucestershire
GL5 4JA
Showroom · Mon to Fri, 8 to 5 · Sat by appointment
Phone · 01453 753335
Email · info@stroudfurnituremakers.co.uk
On the western edge of Stroud at Cainscross, where the Five Valleys meet. You can also see our working display kitchens at The AGA Shop, Castle Street, Cirencester.
Made by us. Every kitchen, cabinet and piece of furniture is hand-built on the bench at our Cainscross workshop by our own ten master cabinetmakers, then installed by the same team. Nothing is bought in flat-packed and re-labelled.
Native English hardwoods for most work, with hand-painted finishes where you prefer paint. Ninety per cent of our timber, appliances and services are bought from suppliers in the south-west of England, and any tropical hardwood comes only from FSC-certificated importers.
Yes, it is most of what we do. We draw to the room across four house styles, from the country-manor Early English to the contemporary Townhaus, so a kitchen sits in a stone farmhouse or a town house as if it had always been there.
Both. We build and install, and we manage the lighting, tiling, plumbing, flooring, stonework and finishings around it. As authorised agents for AGA, Lacanche and KitchenAid, we specify the range and the worktop alongside the cabinetry.
Yes. The showroom on Westward Road is open Monday to Friday, eight to five, and Saturday by appointment, and we keep working display kitchens at The AGA Shop on Castle Street in Cirencester. You are also welcome to see the workshop itself.