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Kirkintilloch · Serving the central belt
Made properly.
Made to last.
Three generations of joiners fitting kitchens, staircases and bespoke furniture. Same family, same workshop, since 1974.
Recent work
Every job on this page was made by the people who fitted it.
We don’t subcontract and we don’t buy in flat-packs. If you see something here you like, we can build you one.
Shaker kitchen in solid ash
Hand-painted, brass ironmongery, 6 weeks
Open-tread oak staircase
Cut string, glass balustrade
Walnut panelling & media wall
Built in situ over 9 days
Boot room and utility
Painted MDF with oak worktop
What we do
Four things, done properly.
Kitchens
Designed with you, built in our workshop, fitted by the same people who made it. Solid timber or painted, to the millimetre of your room.
from £6,400
Staircases
Straight flights, winders and full open-tread rebuilds in oak, ash or walnut. Templated on site so it fits the house you actually have.
from £3,200
Fitted furniture
Wardrobes, alcove units, home offices, boot rooms. The awkward corners of a house are usually where the best joinery goes.
from £1,850
Doors & windows
Sash and case restoration, hardwood doors, draught-proofing and repairs to period joinery. Sympathetic work on older properties.
quoted per job
About us
Started by Jim Dovetail in 1974. Still a family firm.
Jim started out making sash windows for tenement flats in the West End. His son Alan took over in 1998, and these days Alan’s daughter Rachel runs the workshop side of things.
We’ve stayed deliberately small — four joiners and an apprentice. It means the person who quotes your job is the person who builds it, and you’re not handed off to a project manager who’s never held a chisel.
We’ll also tell you when something isn’t worth doing. Plenty of jobs we’ve turned down would have paid well and not lasted.
- 50+
- Years trading
- 3
- Generations
- 10yr
- Guarantee
How a job runs, start to finish.
We come and measure
A free visit, an hour or so. We look at the space, talk through what you want and take proper measurements.
You get a fixed price
Written down, itemised, valid for 90 days. It includes materials, labour, fitting and taking the rubbish away.
We build it
Most of the work happens in the workshop in Kirkintilloch, so your house isn't a building site for a month.
We fit it and clean up
One team, start to finish. You get a snagging visit six weeks later whether you ask for one or not.
“We'd been quoted nearly double by a kitchen showroom for something half as good. Alan came out, measured up, and three weeks later we had a kitchen that actually fits the room.”
“They rebuilt our staircase in a 1900s tenement without touching the original cornicing. Meticulous, tidy, and they warned us honestly about what wasn't worth doing.”
Get in touch
Tell us about the job.
Quotes are free and there’s no hard sell. If we’re not the right firm for it we’ll say so and point you at someone who is.
- Workshop
- 14 Meadow Road, Kirkintilloch, G66
- Phone
- 0141 000 0000
- alan@dovetailworkshop.co.uk
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 7.30am–5pm · Sat by arrangement
- Areas covered
- Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, Stirling, Falkirk and surrounding