Jack explains why we number hinges – custom made furniture, Thame, Oxfordshire

This is Jack, who works with us at Mark Williamson Furniture. He’s learning about how to design and make beautiful bespoke furniture and has already become an integral part of our team. Here, he shows us the method we use for getting the right hinges on the right doors, and this is vital, because every individual piece is made and …

Bespoke bedroom wardrobes in ash – Henton, Bucks

You may remember these beautiful bedroom wardrobes that we designed, made and fitted in a barn conversion in Henton, Bucks. We were there last week to take some photos, and decided to film this small clip too. You can find more information about this commission on our blog by clicking here. Are you looking to commission similar bespoke furniture of any …

Bespoke oak bedroom furniture in a client’s house, Thame – mid fit!

We’ve been fitting bedroom furniture designed and made by us into a client’s house in Thame, Oxfordshire, and to make a change, we decided to post a clip instead of photos. Mark does all the talking, showing the carious stages of the fitting (this is mid-fit), as we’re currently in the process of fitting our bespoke furniture in various rooms …

Bespoke bedroom wardrobes and furniture – Henton, Oxfordshire

We have recently completed some work for clients that live in Henton, Oxfordshire. They wanted a large fitted wardrobe that featured four sets of full height double doors, a fitted shoe cabinet, and a corner dressing table and drawer cabinet. All of this furniture was then to be fully fitted to the walls and floor of the huge room that …

Cherry picking English cherry

We recently had the pleasure of collecting some beautiful English cherry from woodland owned by a client near Henley The trees had already been cut down and planked, and has been stored in the wood for 18 months to start the drying process We have now moved it tour lovely dry and warm workshop to continue the drying process for …

That’s us in Vale Life magazine!

We are now starring in the latest issue of Vale Life Magazine, which is the Feb/Mar 2016 issue. If you’re out and about often around the Aylesbury and Thame areas, you will undoubtedly have seen the bright and glossy magazine (which is free) distributed in shops, boutiques, cafés, pubs – well almost anywhere that people will get to pick up …

Curved end wardrobe – fitted

   You may remember that at the start of January, we posted about the large curved wardrobe that we were finishing off in our workshop. After many more hours of hard work, we completed the wardrobe, and have now installed it in our clients’ home. As you can see from the photos, we had to build the wardrobe to fit …

Work in progress – free standing curved top wardrobe

This is a work in progress blog post, and the work in progress, though pretty much complete by now, is this classically proportioned curved top wardrobe. It’s really not that easy to produce curved lines from wood – but we know how, and have put our experience into practice here to what we think is very good effect. As usual, …

Bespoke oak bedroom furniture – fitted!

We posted a couple of weeks back about some bedroom furniture that we were making in the workshop. This was a repeat job for clients that had previously commissioned us to make some bespoke wardrobes for their home. We’ve now carefully fitted the furniture in its place, and it looks fantastic, especially with the lighting all switched on. We’ve added …