Somerset
A two bench workshop making fitted kitchens, libraries, staircases and shopfronts in solid timber. Everything is drawn, made and fitted by the same two people.
From the bench
Private house, Bath
Ninety two ribs, each one different, set out full size on the workshop floor before a single one was cut.
Farmhouse, Wells
Panelling and a ten seat table in one timber, scribed to a room with no square corner.
Commission, six
Steam bent backs, cut from one board so the six match. Two weeks a chair, which is why we make them in runs.
Coastal house, Devon
Wall lining, wardrobes and a window seat, all in one timber so the room reads as a single piece.
What we make
Drawn around the room you have rather than a carcass system. Solid timber doors and frames, painted or oiled.
Shelving, panelling and desks, scribed to walls that are never straight in a house worth panelling.
Cut, assembled and dry fitted at the bench, then taken apart and refitted on site in a day.
Traditional shopfronts and signwriting boards, including work in conservation areas.
The workshop
We opened the workshop in 1998 and it has been the two of us since. Everything is drawn, cut, assembled and fitted by the people you meet, which is slow and is the whole point.
We keep eleven timbers in stock and season most of them ourselves. If a job wants something we do not have, we will say how long it takes rather than substitute.
Commission
Rough dimensions and a photograph of the space is enough to start. We will say what it would take and roughly what it would cost before you commit to a drawing.