Article Category Oak Living Room Furniture

Forty years. That’s how long I’ve been breathing in sawdust and shifting heavy sideboards. I’ve seen every “trend” you can imagine come and go like the tide. One year everyone wants orange pine, the next it’s all grey paint. It’s enough to make your head spin. Here’s the thing. Most …

Forty years I’ve been at this, lungs probably half-full of sawdust by now. If I had a quid for every time some lad in a suit tried to tell me veneer was “just as good” as the real thing, I’d be sitting on a beach in Cornwall right now, not …

I’ve had sawdust in my pockets and a chisel in my hand for over forty years now. Long before “flat-pack” became a dirty word. People wander into my workshop these days chirping about “minimalism” or whatever the latest trend is on the internet. I usually just point at a properly …

Forty years I’ve spent with a chisel in my hand and splinters in my palms. If there’s one thing that really winds me up, it’s seeing decent folks spend their hard-earned cash on “oak-ish” rubbish that’s held together with nothing but glue and a prayer. People come into my workshop …

Look, I’ve spent forty years picking splinters out of my palms and watching “trends” come and go. I’ve seen enough flat-pack rubbish to last a lifetime. People buy that cheap stuff, it falls apart in two years because it’s basically cardboard, and then they wonder why. If you’re buying proper, …

Forty years I’ve been at this. Forty years of breathing in sawdust and picking splinters out of my palms. I’ve seen every trend come and go—from the orange-stained pine of the eighties to this modern “disposable” rubbish that’s basically just compressed cardboard and hope. Folks walk into my shop and …

I’ve spent forty years of my life covered in sawdust and wood shavings. If I had a pound for every time someone asked me why a “real oak” wardrobe from one of those massive retail parks costs eighty quid while mine costs five times that, I’d have retired to a …