FURNITURE BLOG – Bespoke Furniture Makers
As bespoke furniture makers, we have a passion for using sustainable materials to produce handmade dining tables and kitchen furniture that is built for life. We are are totally inspired by the oak frames of the farm buildings that surround us here in the Loire Valley, France. And we love to combine artisan furniture making techniques with contemporary design with architectural influences. We hope that our furniture blog will give you some insight into the way we work and our influences. Furniture care tips and finishing techniques will also feature occasionally too. Happy reading!
Furniture Blog Articles
Bonfire Night
Work on our workshop roof is now complete and as the winter approaches, it seemed a fitting end to make a bonfire with any last bits of timber from the old roof. A symbolic end to the work. We can at last get on with more pressing things inside the workshop!
A roof over our heads
So before another winter of worry begins we are delighting in making the roof over our heads good again.
La Journée des Creatives
Just visited La Journee des Creatives at the gorgeous abbaye at La Roë https://www.facebook.com/JustineetCathy/ . Inspiring! We were asked to join the exhibitors this year but couldn’t for various reasons. We are definitely going to be putting it in the diary for next year!
Good Company
A not so rare picture of Archie relaxing on a September Monday on the perfect sawdust bed.
Indoor Outdoor Dining
When the family is altogether around the dining table it really feels we are outside.
Bargain Handmade Oak Dining Benches
A client of ours is down-sizing and would like to sell his 3 metre long Zen Benches (with backs) so they are an amazing bargain!
A Sawbuck style Dining Table in the making
As well as our own table designs, we often get asked to recreate other styles of dining tables. We can’t wait to see the home it is going to either!
From Acorn to Oak Tree
We love to take great hunks of oak and turn them into furniture full of character. But this is where it all begins …