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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Snipe” Sideboard

    April 6, 2024

    My "Snipe" sideboard. Continuing the design cues from the filing cabinet - cut-away drawer pulls and walnut highlights - and adding asymmetric freeform slatted doors with offset handles. Everyone in the workshop loved it.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Snipe” Filing Cabinet

    March 29, 2024

    Next in my "Snipe" suite of office furniture is my filing cabinet. The brief was that this was to have drawers, one of which was to be big enough to hold A4 ring binders, and it was to be the partner to my "Snipe" corner desk.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    “Eider” Footstool (#2)

    March 23, 2024

    It's always nice when a customer contacts you out of the blue and says that they really like what they see on your website and asks "May I have one of these, please?"

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Snipe” Corner Desk

    March 23, 2024

    My brief was to create some furniture home office. The client already had in mind a corner desk but we went on to explore some typical rectangular desk designs before settling on a small suite comprising a filing cabinet, corner desk and sideboard. This is the corner desk.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    “Eider” Footstool in Oak

    November 1, 2023

    The leaves are off the trees, the clocks have gone back and it’s time to put your feet up. This is my Eider footstool to complement my Eider sofa table. In oak, finished with Osmo raw and upholstered with the customer’s own fabric. I hope you like it.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    Lovely Olive Ash!

    September 27, 2023

    Tom, my son, asked for some shelves to fit an empty space in his room. The shelves were to be able to take his school notes in lever arch files, some text books and some novels...

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    “Eider” Sofa Table Number 4

    August 19, 2023

    In August I was able to start going back to the workshop on a part-time basis. First job was to make another of my "Eider" footstools for a new customer.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    “Hen Harrier” Footstool – 1970s style?

    June 28, 2023

    A footstool in my olive ash with upholstered cushion on top. I wanted to keep the 'legs' quite wide to show off the grain patterning in the olive ash and the result is that the stool has ended up looking very 1970s.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    “Thistle” Oak Table

    May 17, 2023

    Having seen some pictures of furniture that had been made in the 'Arts & Crafts Style', I decided to give it a go myself. I like the exposed joinery - the visible tenons, the wedges - and the other details that give such character to furniture made in that style, but I also thought that it would be a good fun to make and part of me liked the idea of the slightly masochistic approach to making joints by hand.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Chaffinch” Cabinet

    November 15, 2022

    The brief for this project to was to replace a small plywood table that sat at the end of a sofa...

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Eider” Sofa Table

    April 14, 2022

    What is a sofa table? Well, it's a wee table that aims to slide in beside you when you are sitting on the sofa to give you somewhere flat to put your mug. No more trying to balance your mug on the cushion next to you! No more biscuits sliding off your plate!

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    “Barn Owl” Coffee Table

    March 26, 2022

    An oak coffee table. Strong clean lines, large surfaces, with fold-over edges to show case the end-grain. No skirts, aprons, shadow gaps, offsets, mouldings or exposed joinery. Finished with a white tint to complement its new home.

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