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How things are made, how to choose, and how to look after what you own.
What Bespoke Furniture Costs
What a made-to-order piece actually costs, what moves the figure up and down, and why a quote takes a drawing rather than a phone…
How to Choose a Bespoke Dining Table for Your Home
A practical maker’s guide to choosing the right bespoke dining table: room clearances, seating, shape, timber, finish and the details that matter.
What “Character Oak” Really Means, and When to Use It
Character oak is oak with the knots, shakes and figure deliberately left in, rather than cut out. What the term means, how it differs…
How to Size a Dining Table to Your Room
Allow 24 inches of table edge per person, 36 inches of clearance behind the chairs and a top no narrower than 35 inches. How…
What Is a Potboard Dresser Base?
What a potboard is, where the form came from, how it differs from a cupboard base, and how to choose between three, four and…
How to Match New Furniture to Antique Furniture
A maker’s guide to matching new furniture to antiques: timber, colour, proportion, mouldings and ironmongery, and why colour is the last decision, not the…
How Long Does Bespoke Furniture Take to Make?
Standard designs typically take ten to twelve weeks, and a one-off around four weeks longer. An honest account of what happens in each phase,…
Start with samples
We will post you timber and finish samples so you can see the colour in your own light, against your own walls, before you commit to anything.