The other day, I reached a turning point. I’d been working on the launch of a piece of furniture that I’d been developing, which I could batch produce in my workshop. This product involved the use of a number of wood-based, industrially manufactured sheet materials, imported from various...
At Straker Kitchens we love trees and it’s a privilege to be working daily with their gifts, making bespoke wooden kitchens and furniture. We take great care in specifying suitable types of wood, before selecting boards at the mill, and from them the individual components for each...
Our client, with her interior designer Joanna Bamford, has been carefully and comprehensively renovating this beautiful, Welsh Marches (Y Mers) farmhouse, going to such painstaking lengths as quarrying their own stone for walls, flags, and roof tiles. The oldest part of the house dates back to at...
Just as the story of this Welsh Marches farmhouse is one of centuries, the old mixing with the new, so is that of the furniture.The frame and panel construction for this hardworking utility room dates back to the middle of the last millennium, but remains entirely relevant today. Similarly, the...