With the Glenkinchie Distillery Christmas Fayre on the horizon, I finally was able to use up some of my olive ash offcuts to make more creepies. I was also gifted some old mahogany tables from which I was able to reclaim some lovely coloured pieces that I could use for the skirts.
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The “Corncrake” Dining Table
Time for a dining table. This one is an 8-seater which is large enough to be an occasional 10-seater. The table length was a slight limiting factor and so I opted to go slightly wider and have two placings at each end to give a 10-seater 3-2-3-2 configuration.
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The “Marbled Duck” Table
A wee table, designed as a replacement for my client's old table and designed specifically to showcase the client's own piece of marble (- hence the choice of name). The rich brown of the walnut gives a fantastic match for the rose coloured marble.
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May and June Work
I had a variety of contract jobs in May and June. Here are a few examples of the pieces that I made. A TV unit in walnut, two oak bedside cabinets and an oak console table.
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Creepie Variations on a Theme (#9 and #10)
A pair of creepies commissioned to bring back memories. It's the first time that my furniture has caused the customer to burst into tears and give me a hug. 🤗
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The “Snipe” Office Furniture Suite
Just a final post showing the three pieces of the "Snipe" office furniture suite gathered together. You get a better idea of scale and positioning to see the filing cabinet and sideboard sitting either side of the corner desk.
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Olive Ash and Elm Creepie (#8)
A lovely wee creepie in stunningly figured olive ash with elm side skirts. 200 yr old ash from Dumfriesshire and 40 yr old elm from the foot of my garden. Birch pegs. Finished with Osmo hard wax-oil. Approximate size 420 L x 175 W x 220 H. Nb: The National Museum of Scotland website has a nice wee article about creepies if you would like to know more about this furniture type.
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The “Snipe” Sideboard
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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The “Snipe” Filing Cabinet
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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“Eider” Footstool (#2)
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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The “Snipe” Corner Desk
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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Two Lovely Big Desks
The year started with two big oak desks. The first was 2.2 m long and made from character oak, whilst the second was smaller at 1.5 m but with an 'external' frame for some interest.
