Here are a few workshop progress shots of a large oak living room cabinet that we have been working on here at Mark Williamson Furniture for a client. Obviously with a design this big you have to build it all up until it’s finished, complete and perfect, then break it all down again into pieces. Then, with great …
Bespoke Day Bed
We have been commissioned to build a day bed for clients, so we’ve recently been busy in our workshops making and building it. What is a day bed though? To most, it sounds like as it name might suggest something that (if you’re blessed with the spare time!) you can just jump onto and catch forty winks. And that’s …
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, …
The latest client testimonial to our work at MWF
This is our latest client testimonial to our work, and we’re thrilled as always to receive it, because it is vitally important to us at Mark Williamson Furniture that our clients are 100% thrilled, every time, with the work that we carry out for them. This testimonial describes the work we carried out to transform a hallway with limited space …
We’re a well-oiled machine at MWF
Without machines, you can’t run a business making furniture, simple as that. Yes, a lot of the finishing work for furniture requires the touch, feel and judgement of a human hand, as does the pure work of making smaller objects that require carving and sanding. Most larger commissions such as kitchens and shelving units, wardrobes and so on all …
It’s always a pleasure to see our furniture in use
A few weeks ago we showed you some progress shots of a large made to measure oak book case that we were making in the workshop. We then went on to fit it into the clients’ home, in the space that it was designed for. The other day we were in the house fitting wardrobes too, and it was great …
New gallery added – bespoke hunting drinks box
We’ve just added a brand new gallery to our website, and it features detailed photography of our latest commission – a bespoke drinks box designed to be taken off on shooting and hunting trips. You can read about the box, its special features and what it is made of in detail at the gallery here. This particular box was designed …
You won’t find this in Ikea
Now, we love shops like Ikea and the many different objects they sell for our homes. But then sometimes people ask us why our price for an item such as a book case like the one we made a few weeks ago are much more than somewhere like Ikea’s prices. And apart from facts like the sturdy book case above …
Made to measure for a difficult space
We were recently contacted by a customer that had a kitchen installed – but for some reason, a tall and narrow space had been left between the last kitchen unit and the wall. So they asked us to intervene, and we did, suggesting it would be an ideal space for a wine or bottle rack and shelving. This is …
Speakers for New College Oxford
Looks like the students at the historic New College Oxford are going to be hearing their sounds (or maybe lectures, we’re not sure which) through some bespoke speaker cabinets made by us at MWF. We were commissioned by a company local to us, and they will be fitting the cabinets with their high-quality speakers. They have been designed to match …