Various examples of my bespoke furniture, commissioned by customers over many years.
Yew wood table made to customer's own design
| Versatile extending dining table, made from customer's own oak. The component parts are shown here in various possible combinations: - |
One of a pair of console tables |
Two joined together to form a circular table seating 6 |
Two with central leaf inserted to form an oval table seating 8 |
Traditional dresser in local English oak,
with secret compartment above the cornice.
Polished with beeswax. |
Brown oak knee-hole desk.
The bottom two drawers on the right are all one piece,
made to accommodate hanging files. |
Oak settle,
based on widened version of a traditional lambing chair.
The seat opens on hinges for storage, doubling as a chest.
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Corner cabinet in brown oak,
with coopered door and brass escutcheons |
Refectory table, made from oak salvaged from beams that collapsed into this same space during the devastating fire of 1991 in this Lincolnshire country house.
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Traditional rocking cradle made from an oak tree
that was blown down in the gales of October 2000.
Cradle can swing, or be fixed by a simple locking device. |
Chair and two-seater bench. Part of a set of 12 chairs and benches in oak for country house garden. Beautiful silver colour is a result of natural weathering.
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Four poster bed in mahogany,
based on a design from a bed in Chatsworth House.
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Country house kitchen,
painted. Beams over the Aga were salvaged fom a major fire. |
Triangular cabinet in quarter-sawn oak,
with concealed soss hinges
and triangular spring-catch. An early project.
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Walnut desk and chair made from a tree
from the customer's own garden.
I seasoned the wood in my workshop |
Painted bookcase, made from a photograph of a piece that the customer had missed in a sale. First picture shows work in primer, the second one shows the finished piece.
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One of a pair of bookcases made from the customer's own elm,
seasoned in my workshop
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Refectory table and set of chairs.
Table has adzed oak top and elm legs, and the chairs are in oak. On an elm floor. |
Pair of Windsor chairs, in yew and ash.
The back bow, the arm bows and crinoline stretchers
are all steam-bent
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Pair of glass fronted pine bookcases, built into alcoves
either side of chimney breast in small farmhouse.
I also made the pine fire surround. |
Sewing chest in antiqued pine with turned beech handles. Made to customer's design, to accommodate specific needs of her craft.
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Painted kitchen in solid pine for Victorian cottage
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Memorial bench in oak
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Semi-circular garden seat in oak, in three sections
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