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 …
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, …
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 …
New client testimonial – read what our clients say about our work
We’ve just received some very nice words of praise for our work that we have published on our ‘what our clients say’ page. We designed and built a bespoke kitchen for clients near Stone, Bucks, and we posted about it here. Testimonials from our customers are important because they are honest, succinct and straightforward opinions on our work. We’re …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We’ve put the antique ship back into its rightful place – oak unit fitted
We’ve completed the fitting of the fully fitted cabinet and oak unit containing the family’s antique model ship that we told you about here – and we think it looks fantastic in place. The oak really contrasts beautifully with the large flagstones on the floor of the clients’ home, and the lighting that we designed and built into the unit …