The full picture
Bespoke carpentry in Wallingford
and South Oxfordshire
CZ Bespoke Carpentry is a bespoke and finish carpentry business based at Blackbarn Farm in Ipsden, a few minutes from Wallingford. Corey Holleran started his carpentry apprenticeship straight after leaving school, worked for a construction company, and then set up CZ Bespoke to concentrate on the part of the job he cares most about: the finishing touches and the final stages of a project. Ten years in the trade sit behind every piece that leaves the workshop.
While we carry out all aspects of carpentry, the heart of the business is bespoke fitted furniture. Fitted bedrooms and wardrobes, alcove units, understairs storage, panelling and media units are designed in CAD, manufactured in our own workshop and sprayed in-house before they ever arrive at your home. That control over the whole chain is what produces a finish that looks original to the property rather than added to it, and several of our Google reviews mention awkward spaces solved neatly.
“Made to measure isn't a luxury in an old Oxfordshire house; it's the only way to get a clean result.”
01Fitted bedrooms, wardrobes and home offices
A fitted bedroom does something a freestanding wardrobe never can: it uses the full height and the full depth of the room, right into the corners and under the slopes. For older Oxfordshire houses with chimney breasts, dormers and uneven walls, made to measure is not a luxury, it's the only way to get a clean result. The same thinking applies to fitted home offices: a proper desk, cable management and shelving turn a spare bedroom into a room you can genuinely work in five days a week.
Media units, kitchens and 2nd fix carpentry
Media units are handled as joinery and electrics together. We work with a dedicated electrician on cable management, additional sockets, lighting and fireplace fitting, so you're not left coordinating trades around a half-finished wall. Kitchens are offered as a fitting service: you supply the units, we fit them precisely, scribe the end panels and handle the finishing detail. For 2nd fix and finish carpentry, doors, skirting, architrave, staircases, panelling, we work primarily direct with homeowners, though we're open to work for builders and developers too.
Garden rooms and roofing
Garden rooms are delivered as a full turnkey build: base, structure, insulation and electrics, managed through a trusted network of trades rather than handed to you as a shell. On roofing, we handle hand-cut roofs and GRP resin flat roofs. Whatever the job, the commercial approach is the same: a free site visit, a written fixed-price quote within 72 hours, payment by bank transfer, and a deposit only where the job calls for it.
Honest timescales
Bespoke joinery is not an overnight service. Most fitted furniture projects have a lead time of around six weeks from the point of order, because the work is designed, built and sprayed before it comes to site. We'd rather set that expectation clearly than promise a date we can't hold. What is fast is the front end: the site visit is free, and the written quote is usually with you within 72 hours.
Corey holds an NVQ Level 2 in Carpentry & Joinery and carries £2 million of public liability insurance. If you have a space that isn't working, the next step is simple: book a free site visit and see what it could become.
