Sheffield Carpentry

Sheffield Carpentry is a carpentry and joinery business run by Christopher Kelly. The carpenter holds City & Guilds training, a traditional furniture making NVQ, site carpentry training from London Metropolitan University, and an FDA in Furniture design and realisation. The business serves Sheffield and South Yorkshire, including Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield and various Sheffield areas.

It offers bespoke fitted furniture and carpentry, including furniture made to measure such as fitted wardrobes, alcove fitted shelves and cabinets, first fix and second fix carpentry and joinery, domestic carpentry and joinery, furniture carpentry and joinery, kitchen carpentry and joinery, sash repairs, stair parts, general carpentry and joinery, shelving, and storage solutions. The business considers unusual commissions. It has experience as a first fix carpenter and builder and as a site manager. It makes hand made furniture in Sheffield and is committed to sustainability.

Sheffield Carpentry undertakes joinery and bespoke furniture work, and the feedback gathered from customers concentrates on the standard of the finished result. Chris Kelly is the craftsman named in the accounts, and the qualities that emerge again and again are his reliability, his courteous approach in occupied homes and the neatness of his working methods. A client who asked for made-to-measure shelves notes that he explained the process clearly and left the property clean, and the same observation about tidiness recurs in connection with a built-in alcove unit with storage above.

Praise for the workmanship itself appears repeatedly, covering stair components such as skirting, banisters, newels and spindles as well as fitted cabinetry. Customers describe the quotations as fair and the charging as sensible, and they remark that helpful guidance and practical suggestions were given throughout rather than confined to the beginning. On a home recording studio, an internal framework was erected to carry acoustic panels without fixing into walls or ceiling, with additional panels then constructed and installed, and the client recalls being kept informed at each stage. The term craftsman is used of Chris on more than one occasion, and his friendly manner is noted alongside it.