Painted display cabinets with open shelves above cupboards, made and installed by MSO for the Lygon Spa at The Lygon Arms

Commercial · Spas, gyms & clubs

Joinery for spas, health clubs and leisure

Timber lockers, changing-room benches, vanity units and reception desks for spas, gyms, health clubs and golf clubs: drawn for the space, made in our Poole workshop and fitted by our own joiners.

MSO Joinery/Commercial fit-out/Spa & leisure joinery

We make the joinery for spas, gyms, health clubs and golf clubs: timber lockers, changing-room benches, vanity units, reception desks and display cabinets. Each piece is drawn for the space, built in our Poole workshop and fitted by our own joiners. For the Lygon Spa at The Lygon Arms we designed, built and installed the reception desk and display cabinets.

A spa or a club is judged the moment a guest walks in, and again in the changing room. The reception desk sets the tone; the lockers, benches and vanity units have to look as good on a busy Saturday as on the first morning, in rooms that are often warm and damp.

So we treat it as joinery: drawn for the room, made at the bench in our Poole workshop and fitted by the people who made it.

The panelled reception desk MSO designed, built and installed for the Lygon Spa at The Lygon Arms

The Lygon Spa

The Lygon Arms in Broadway is a 14th-century coaching inn in the Cotswolds, in the same hotel group as Chewton Glen. For the Lygon Spa we designed, built and installed the bespoke reception desk and the display cabinets: the first thing every guest sees on arrival.

The desk is panelled, with pilasters and a moulded top. Read about our other projects.

The Lygon Spa · the reception desk

A display cabinet at the Lygon Spa: open shelves of nail polishes and spa products under a moulded cornice

Display for spa products

A spa sells its products as well as its treatments. The display cabinets we made for the Lygon Spa have open shelves under a moulded cornice, with cupboards below.

We make display cabinets and shelving to suit the products and the room, painted or in timber, and can make them with the reception desk as one scheme.

The Lygon Spa · display cabinet

Reception, display and panelling

Selected work
A hotel reception desk with a seamless solid-surface top over a dark painted front
Reception in solid surfaceA hotel reception desk
The mahogany reception desk MSO made for the main entrance hall of Chewton Glen
Reception desk, Chewton GlenHotels & hospitality
A painted blue-grey dresser with lit glazed cabinets either side of panelled doors, over drawers and cupboards
Lit glazed cabinetsFine cabinetry
A full-height reeded timber wall with wall lights, behind a sofa in a drawing room
Reeded timber wallWall panelling
A painted fitted display unit with lit niches and cupboards beneath
Fitted display unitFine cabinetry

Lockers and changing rooms

We make timber lockers and changing-room benches for the changing rooms and locker rooms of spas, gyms, health clubs and golf clubs. They are drawn for the room: the number of lockers, their sizes and the run of benches set out around the walls, the doors and the way people move through the space.

A changing room is busy and often damp, so the timber, the boards and the finishes are chosen for it, and we show you samples before anything is made. The lockers and benches can be made with the vanity units and wall panelling around them, so the whole room is drawn and built by one workshop.

What we make for spas and clubs

Spa & leisure joinery
Timber lockersMade to measure for changing rooms in spas, gyms, health clubs and golf clubs.
Changing-room benchesDrawn with the lockers, to suit the room and the way it is used.
Vanity unitsWith seamless solid-surface tops: see Corian & solid surface.
Reception desksThe desk that greets every guest: see bespoke reception desks.
Display cabinetsShelving and cabinets for the products a spa or club sells.
Treatment roomsFitted cabinetry and storage for treatment rooms.
Café & juice-bar countersSee counters & serveries.
Wall panellingFor receptions, lounges, gyms and changing rooms.

Golf clubs and members’ clubs

For golf clubs and members’ clubs we make timber lockers and changing-room benches, the bar and back bar, wall panelling and honours boards, drawn for the clubhouse and made in our Poole workshop.

Working with the designer and contractor

A spa, gym or clubhouse interior is usually built to a designer’s scheme, with a main contractor and other trades on site. We work to the programme, alongside the architect, the contractor and the interior designer, and out of hours where a club or hotel has to keep trading.

The joinery is made and finished in our workshop, so the time on site is spent fitting it. See commercial & hospitality joinery and hotel joinery; for clinics and salons, see clinic & salon joinery.

How a project runs

From drawings to the final fit
1Drawings or photos & a guide priceSend your designer’s drawings, or photos of the space with rough sizes; we come back with a guide.
2SurveyOnce the guide works for you, we visit, measure the space and agree how the room has to work.
3Drawings & samplesSet-out drawings, and timber and finish samples to approve.
4Made in our Poole workshopLockers, benches, desks and cabinets built and finished at the bench.
5Fitted by our own joinersInstalled on site, out of hours if you need to keep trading.

Common questions

Spa & leisure joinery
Do you make wooden lockers?

Yes. We make timber lockers for changing rooms in spas, gyms, health clubs and golf clubs, made to measure for the room, with changing-room benches drawn to match.

Can you make changing-room benches?

Yes. The benches are drawn with the lockers and the rest of the room, so they line up with the walls and the lockers and suit the way people move through the space, and they are built for hard daily use.

Have you made joinery for a spa before?

Yes. For the Lygon Spa at The Lygon Arms in Broadway we designed, built and installed the bespoke reception desk and the display cabinets.

Do you make lockers for golf clubs?

Yes. We make timber lockers and changing-room benches for golf clubs and members’ clubs, as well as the bar, wall panelling and honours boards.

Can you work to our designer’s drawings?

Yes. We regularly work to an architect’s or interior designer’s drawings, adding the workshop detailing that makes the joinery buildable, or we draw it from a brief. Either way, you approve set-out drawings and samples before anything is made.

How do we start?

Send us your drawings, or a few photos of the space with rough sizes. We come back with a guide price, then visit to survey and talk it through before anything is drawn in detail.

Where we work

Joinery for spas, gyms and clubs in Poole, Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Branksome Park and Bournemouth — and across Dorset, the New Forest & Hampshire.

By appointment

Arrange a consultation.

Send us your drawings, or a few photos of the space with rough sizes. We’ll come back with a guide price, then arrange a visit to survey. No obligation, and no fixed catalogue.

Telephone
01202 152530
Workshop
4 Allens Lane, Poole, Dorset BH16 5DA
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