Architectural Elements
Full Joinery Packages
Every timber element on a property specified together, as a single architectural intervention.
- Scope
- Whole-property joinery, specified as one package
- Includes
- Doors · windows · entrance · staircases · fitted joinery · oak frame · ironmongery
- From
- £60,000 (full architectural package)
- Material
- Oak · Accoya · European hardwoods, chosen to relate across the property
- Specialism
- Period restorations · listed schemes · significant renovations
- Areas
- Shropshire · West Midlands · Worcestershire · Cotswolds · Cheshire
Architectural Intent
On a whole-property project, the joinery is usually the last thing specified and the first thing that gives the building away. Doors, windows, the entrance, staircases, internal joinery, structural oak — each gets ordered separately, from different suppliers, to different standards, and the house ends up reading as a collection of decisions rather than one. A Full Joinery Package is the studio’s answer to that: every timber element on the property specified together, as a single architectural intervention.
We Are Woodland takes the whole brief — exterior and interior joinery, glazing, ironmongery, and oak structure where the project calls for it — and resolves it as one specification, to one standard, in one coherent material and detailing language. The front door and the internal doors share a register. The windows and the entrance speak to the same elevation. The staircase belongs to the hallway it sits in.
This is the studio’s largest scope of work, and it suits buildings where the joinery is doing architectural work across the whole property: period restorations, listed building schemes, rural new-builds, and significant renovations in Shropshire, the West Midlands, and the Cotswolds. The package is led from the architectural brief down to the ironmongery, so the whole reads as one decision, not several.
Approach and Specification
A Full Joinery Package begins with the building, not a list of items. The studio surveys the whole property, reads the architecture and — on listed and period work — the conservation context, and writes a single specification that covers every timber element and how each meets the next. Scope is agreed before anything is made: which elements are in the package, the material logic across them, the detailing standard, and the order of work against the build programme.
Specification runs from the architectural level down to the fixings. Exterior joinery — doors, windows, entrance structures, oak frame — is resolved against the elevations; interior joinery — internal doors, staircases, panelling, fitted joinery — against the rooms it sits in. Ironmongery, glazing, finishes, and weathering details are specified across the package as one set of decisions, so nothing is left to be matched up later on site.
Manufacture and installation are sequenced to the build. Because the package is held as one specification, elements arrive in the right order, fit the openings they were drawn for, and read as a set. On listed work the whole package is taken through consent together rather than element by element. The result is a property where the joinery was designed as one body of work — which is the only way it reads as though it was always there.
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Selected Projects
Selected whole-property projects where the joinery was specified and made as one package — exterior and interior, to a single standard. Project examples are being prepared from completed work.
Full joinery package project examples in preparation.
Material and Performance
Across a whole property, material logic has to be coherent, not uniform. The same species is not right for every element: oak where weight and longevity suit the building, Accoya where a painted finish and stability matter, European hardwoods where budget or conservation guidance shapes the brief. What matters on a package is that the choices relate — that the front door, the windows, and the internal joinery were decided against one another rather than in isolation.
Detailing carries across the package. Moulding profiles, paint lines, glazing methods, and ironmongery registers are held consistent where the architecture wants consistency and varied deliberately where it does not. On listed and period work, like-for-like specification and period-correct profiles run through the whole package, so the property reads as one age rather than several refits.
Performance is specified element by element but judged as a whole: a package of well-made timber joinery, specified for the building and maintained, lasts decades and can be repaired rather than replaced. The economy of doing it once, as one body of work, is the argument for the package — not a longer list of features.
Common Questions
What is a Full Joinery Package?
A Full Joinery Package is every timber element on a property specified together as one architectural intervention — exterior and interior joinery, glazing, ironmongery, and oak structure where the project calls for it. Rather than ordering doors, windows, and internal joinery separately, the whole is resolved as a single specification, to one standard and one detailing language.
What does a package typically include?
Whatever the building needs, specified as one set: front and internal doors, windows, entrance structures, staircases, panelling and fitted joinery, oak frame where relevant, and the ironmongery, glazing, and weathering details across all of it. Scope is agreed at the outset — which elements are in the package and how each meets the next.
How much does a Full Joinery Package cost?
Full architectural packages start from £60,000, scaling with the property and the scope of joinery involved. Smaller architecturally-aligned projects are considered case-by-case. The figure reflects a whole-property body of work specified and made to one standard, not a sum of separate orders.
Do you do Full Joinery Packages for listed buildings?
Yes — listed and period whole-property schemes are core to this scope. The package is specified to the building's grade and consent conditions, with like-for-like profiles and period-correct detailing run consistently across every element. On listed work the whole package is taken through consent together rather than element by element.
Can I start with one element and add more later?
Yes. Many projects begin with a single element — a front door, a run of windows — and grow into a wider package as the building's needs become clear. Specifying later work to match what came before is straightforward when the studio holds the original specification; starting with the package simply does it all in one coherent pass.
Which areas do you cover?
We Are Woodland is an architectural joinery studio based near Bridgnorth in Shropshire. The studio works across Shropshire, the West Midlands, Worcestershire, the Cotswolds, and Cheshire, and elsewhere in the UK where the building justifies the journey.
Related Authority
Authority content on whole-property specification, conservation schemes, and material decisions across a package — written by the studio.
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Specifying Joinery for a Grade II Listed Building
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Whole-House Joinery: Why One Specification Beats Six Suppliers
Full architectural packages begin at £60,000, scaling with the property and the scope of joinery. Smaller architecturally-aligned projects are considered case-by-case.
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