Garden bench thrown out for bulk rubbish collection in the street
Projects
Restoring a pre-War cold cupboard
Before refrigeration, perishable food was kept in ‘cold’ cupboards mounted on the outside wall of tenement buildings. This rare find that was barely surviving at a second floor flat in Maida Vale. The customer was emphatic that as much of the original be kept, preserved and reused. The light metal brackets were eaten away by […]
The story of a garden seat
This elderly customer had this ‘find’ while clearing an overgrown garden that had been transferred to him for his use. The slats were rotten, spongy with fungus and crumbled with touch. Nevertheless, he wanted this restored as it reminded him of his youth in the 1950s. Without exception, my customers have always exclaimed ‘wow!’ when […]
Old door complete restoration
Bespoke trophy cabinet
The brief was to make a secure trophy cabinet to display a tennis club’s impressive collection of tennis trophies dating back to the early 1920s. The cabinet is made from Wenge veneered 18mm MDF with a solid American Walnut casement machined to have a decorative inner edge. The door has invisible magnetic catches as well […]
Door frame refurbishment and six new doors
An apparently simple job to replace the original six internal doors with new heritage doors from trade and fitted with new heritage door furniture… apparently simple. Most of the old doors had been swapped from right to left hinging and in two cases back again to the original hinge side. In the latter case, hinges […]
You can’t always find the shed that you want…
Having started as a shed ‘putterupperer’ it isn’t a surprise that I get enquiries for bespoke shed making. Commissions come from owners who generally want something that isn’t available from retail or, during the COVID years, can beat the very long lead times of retail. Sheds are made from standard pressure treated carcassing timber with […]
Turning a door into a table
A customer wanted me to make him a dining room table from a door that he had rescued from a corporate office. It was valuable timber – Brazilian walnut. All the spare timbers were door parts with letter voids, locks and mortise voids. They had to be joined and filled. It was a three-month project […]