It’s been a pretty good summer here in the UK – lots of warm weather and sunshine, and not the usual washout that a British summer can often become. But as the holidays end, schools go back, and offices fill up again, people turn their thoughts towards the coming months. For many, that means thinking about home improvements – a …
Our latest bespoke kitchen – more detail
This is a refit and general redressing of a tired kitchen for clients that live up towards Leighton Buzzard, and we first posted about it a couple of weeks ago. Here’s some more insight into what we did. It responded to a detailed brief – providing a series of custom fittings designed to address a wide range of storage and …
Tired kitchen overhaul – Nettlebed – ‘before’ photos
We are often asked to come into someone’s property to completely rethink and reimagine a client’s use of space, and then design, make and fit furniture accordingly. That also applies of course to kitchens which to many people, are the most important area of any home. Earlier this year we were asked to go and assess a kitchen in a …
We’ve been shooting our kitchens
We’ve been out and about with our photographer Adam to shoot some of our kitchens that we have completed but not yet photographed for our website. We think it’s vital to show off our work on our website with decent imagery, so we like to keep it updated as often as possible. These are just a couple of shots for …
Custom made sliding doors – in oak
This is another commission we have just recently completed, and fitted. We made these large sliding doors in oak to match an existing style already in our clients’ house. Theses large doors are very heavy, around 90kg each, and so we mounted them onto a robust Hawa sliding system that we fitted. We also constructed the wall that creates the …
Custom made living room furniture
We’ve been building some custom furniture for clients in Crafton, Buckinghamshire. Our clients wanted some attractive and modern low-level cabinets either side of the fireplace with a reclaimed oak mantle. Here is the detailed specification fort what we designed, made and fitted. Oak veneered MDF tops with solid lippings are finished in hard-wearing clear lacquer, and feature a recessed …
Any old doors? Recycling and reusing wood
One of the wonderful aspects of working with wood and timber is that it can be reused and recycled so easily, no matter its age. These are some four panel pine doors from around 100 years ago that have outlived their use in the house of one of our clients. But instead of taking them to the tip, …
Some of our interior joinery skills – Arts and Crafts house
We’ve had the pleasure of being commissioned for several jobs over many months in the wonderful Arts and Crafts house in Gerrards Cross owned by clients, and you can look back though our blog posts to see what we’ve done up until now. On this particular job, we were asked to make a study door, and make and fit …
Study cabinet in an alcove
A while ago now, we fitted a study cabinet into an unused alcove for our clients who live in a wonderful Arts and Crafts house near Gerrards Cross. The idea was to have a low-level, three drawer narrow cabinet fitted in alcove to left of the entrance hall of the house. We made the drawer boxes in oak …
Doorway no longer needed? Look what we did
At the end of March we carried out an interesting job for some clients in the beautiful market town of Thame, Oxfordshire, but just a few minutes from our workshop in Ford, just over the border in Buckinghamshire. They wanted to block up a doorway in a manner that was semi-permanent – that is, could be easily removed in …