Ashbrook Kitchens and Joinery builds reception desks and front of house counters for Huskisson businesses, from tour and charter offices to clinics, agencies and showrooms. The dimensions come first: bench height for a seated operator, ledge height for the client, and clearance for the terminal, the monitor arm and the printer. Cabling, the comms cupboard and the lockable drawers are drawn into the carcass at that stage. Only then do we detail the customer side to match the rest of the fit out. The desk is machined on the CNC at our Huskisson workshop.
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Two staff working a counter at once need bench length, not a wider top. We draw a client side ledge at standing height with a seated return behind it, long enough that two chairs clear each other. The terminal, the screen and the printer each get a grommet and a fixed position, so nothing is handed across a bench.
Front of house ends up holding keys, floats and paperwork that should not be left on a bench. We build in lockable drawers, a key cupboard with a cylinder lock, and a cupboard for the terminal and the router, all machined into the carcass rather than added to it.
A reception counter is the one piece of joinery a business cannot work around while it is built. We machine, assemble and finish the desk at our Huskisson workshop and deliver it in sections that bolt together on site. The benchtop, the kick and the door fronts all arrive finished, so the counter is back in service in hours.
Ashbrook is owned and run by a qualified builder with more than 15 years on site, and a front counter is rarely only joinery. There is power and data to land, sometimes a comms cabinet, and nearly always a floor finish and a wall lining that have to meet the desk cleanly. We take the electrician’s and the cabler’s requirements before manufacture, build the conduit runs and the grommets into the carcass on the bench, and set the desk out against the finished floor level rather than the slab.
The rest of the region is covered on our reception desks page. A front desk rarely arrives on its own, so commercial joinery in Huskisson is worth a look, and our Huskisson joinery and cabinetry page sets out the full range.
Services planned into the carcass, not drilled into it afterwards.