Your external design and manufacturing department.
Can you do the wardrobes, the media unit, the bookcase or any other cabinetry too? Yes.
You’ve got the job. We’ve got the factory.
How it works
From a picture on your phone to panels on site.
Five steps. Tap one to open it.Five steps. Pick one to see the detail.
Your phone is the whole system.
Send a sketch on anything, a drawing you already have, or a photo of something you like. By WhatsApp, text or email.
- Total width. Wall to wall, or the width you want.
- Total height. With the width, that’s all we need to quote.
- Materials, if you know them. If you don’t, we’ll suggest some.
- What goes inside. Hanging space, shelves, drawers.
Add any other measurement we must stick to, such as depth, skirting or sockets. Anything you leave out, we use our judgement.
“Chest of drawers, 1,200 wide, 900 high, in oak” is enough. We’ll send back our version. The more you tell us, the closer the first draft. There is one rewrite included in the design fee.
You’ll need a free trade account before you send. Your quote includes the factory’s estimated price, which we only share with account holders.
WhatsApp or text 0330 303 1303 · design@pocketworkshop.co.uk
Finding out costs you nothing.
We reply the way you sent it: WhatsApp, text or email. You get one page with two prices on it: what the design costs, fixed, and what the factory is likely to charge.
- Your design fee, fixed. Your metres at our stock or bespoke rate, with the VAT shown.
- Your materials and edging. Our suggestion, if you left it to us.
- What the fee pays for. Everything in your design pack, listed.
- How long the design takes. Our current design time, counted from payment.
- A factory estimate. Manufacture, fixings and delivery, and the lead time in working days. Confirmed when you approve your design.
The quote stays open for 30 days. Nothing starts until you pay the design fee, and you’re under no obligation to order from the factory.
The design fee is £25 per linear metre + VAT for designs built from our stock modules. 2 m minimum.
Bespoke designs are priced separately. Pay online by the link on your quote. We start drawing when it’s paid, and the design time on your quote counts from then.
What your design fee pays for
- Renders
- Front, left and right views
- Panel and fixings lists
- Itemised
- Construction drawings
- Front elevation, side elevation and planFront, side, plan
- Interactive 3D model
- Opens from a browser linkOpens in a browser
- Factory files
- Go straight to the factory when you approveSent for you
Approve or amend:
One sheet comes with your pack. Tick approved, or write what to change. Sign it in your account, or print it and send us a photo.
Drill or don’t drill:
On the same sheet, choose whether the factory drills your panels or leaves them plain for you to drill on site. It shows the price of each.
Nothing goes to the factory until you approve. One rewrite is included.
When you approve, the cutting, edging and drilling files go straight to the factory, and we send you a link to order.
The factory takes it from here.
When you approve, your job appears as a quote in your own account at the factory. Your factory partner is matched to you by postcode.
- Pay the quote, and it becomes an order. You pay the factory directly. Factory prices are exactly what you’d pay going direct.
- Everything about your order is in one place. Its status, the due date, your invoices and your order history.
- They make it from our files. The factory cuts, edges and drills your panels straight from the manufacturing files our software produces, so what arrives matches your drawings.
- They deliver in their own vehicles, on the date shown on your order.
Once your order is with the factory, your factory account is the place to check on it.
Over to you.
Individually labelled panels arrive on site, direct from the factory. Edged, drilled and ready to assemble and fit. Every label matches a part in your interactive 3D model, so you can see what goes where.
Scribe. Tidy up. Get paid.
Who uses us
Send us the whole job, or just the part you’d rather not make.
Carpenters, joiners, fitters and builders. With a workshop or without one.
For joinery firms
Carcasses only
We supply the boxes. You make what hides them: the doors, the frames, the finish. Keep your bench for the skilled work.
For a painted finish
MDF and shaker doors (factory-dependent)
Doors, carcasses or both, in MDF, primed or unprimed, ready for you to fit and paint.
For carpenters, builders and fitters
The whole job
Carcasses, doors, drawers and panels, designed and made. No workshop needed. Fit it. Then take on the next one.
Every job is yours. Your customer, your price, your margin. We stay behind you.
About us
A specialist on every stage.
We design. Specialists cut, supply and deliver. Each does the part they do best.
Design
Drawn by an experienced designer in imos iX, the industrial CAD/CAM software used by the German kitchen giants.
Materials
Our board manufacturers and wholesalers are all FSC-certified. Raw, primed or pre-finished boards, edged to match.
Hardware
Blum and Häfele as standard. Hinges, drawer runners and adjustable feet, plus wall-hanging brackets if you choose drilling. All specified in the design. Handles and hanging rails are your choice.
The factory
Established furniture panel specialists, matched to you by postcode. You can check their credentials first. They deliver in their own vehicles.
When you create an account
Everything you need to price a job, in one place.
Free to open. Trade only: business name and address required.
Costed examples
Real jobs with the numbers on them.
Design pack samples
See a full pack before you order.
Catalogue
Every stock module, with sizing guidelines.
Technical library
Materials, fixings and what the machines can and can’t do.
Your orders
In one list, each with its design fee invoice.
Your factory
A link to your factory and its materials list.
