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 …
Kitchen screen and shelving in oak
Before Christmas, we designed, made and fitted this tall screen into the kitchen of an architect-designed house. We often work for architects who require one-off, made-to-measure, special, or simply unusual pieces of furniture that need to be designed and made from scratch. This screen not only provides some privacy form the outside looking in, but also functions as very useful …
Floating oak shelves for an Arts and Crafts house
Before Christmas, we made and fitted some floating shelves into a beautiful Arts and Crafts house owned by one of our clients. They’re called floating shelves as there is no sign of any fixings or brackets, so the shelves look like they are actually, well, ‘floating’ somehow. We made the solid shelves from super prime European oak. Our …
Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year
We’d like to wish all our clients, customers, suppliers, friends and family a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year. Thank you all for your custom and support over 2015 which has been a very exciting year for all of us at Mark Williamson Furniture, and we hope that 2016 will prove to be an even busier and more …
Sliding Doors
No, not that enjoyable rom-com feature film from 1998 starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah all about two characters living parallel lives, but one of our latest commissions for clients. We have been carrying out a fair amount of work in one house, and our client wanted the sliding doors already in place to matched to some furniture that …
Handmade bookends
We’ve produced a limited run of beautiful handmade bookends. There are 15 in total and 1 pair has already been sold to clients of ours. Our bookends are hand sculpted from timber and they are 200mm tall x 150mm wide x 150mm deep. Each bookmark is hand branded with our logo underneath and shows that it is made by …
Oak living room cabinet – finished and fitted
Remember the large oak cabinet that we posted about a couple of weeks ago here? After finishing a complete ‘dry build’ in our workshop, we then very carefully took it all apart again, wrapped it all up very carefully, and transported it in sections to the clients’ home. Once unloaded, we then rebuilt it in place, to our precise and …
Caught dog napping
Although we all work very hard and long hours at Mark Williamson Furniture to design, build and fit your bespoke furniture, there’s always one member of our team that manages to catch a quick 40 winks when he can. Alfie is our workshop hound – you might remember reading about him on our blog here before and because he’s …
Bespoke TV cabinet – no more cables!
With the advent of larger flat screen TVs, DVD players, games consoles, Blu-ray players, digital recorders and anything else that you might find in the living room attached to a TV set, there has correspondingly been more of a need for an intelligently designed cabinet that stores everything. It’s a bonus to get wires and cables out of the way …
Big and bespoke! Oak living room cabinet
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 …