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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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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Artificial Business Description
A friend recently was using ChatGPT and thought it would be fun to see what it would generate if asked to prepare a description of Chapelhill Fine Furniture. Here is the result:
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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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Etsy!
My Etsy shop was started initially as a way to sell my early ‘craft’ items but it has morphed into somewhere for me to sell all of the items that I make out of the offcuts from my Chapelhill Fine Furniture business. These items are typically bowls, chopping boards and lamp bases but will also include other items from time to time.
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“Eider” Sofa Table Number 4
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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“Hen Harrier” Footstool – 1970s style?
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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“Thistle” Oak Table
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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Spring 2023 Update
Since Christmas I have been working on a variety of jobs. The most interesting request - or challenge - was to make two "Dali" console tables featuring very sculptural legs and rails.
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Dirleton Market on the Green – November 2022
For the past two years I have been a volunteer helping to setup the Dirleton Market on the Green which runs roughly every two months in the village of Dirleton. The market is intended to give local makers and artisans to marketplace in which to sell a variety of produce and crafts. I first took part in the market at the end of 2021 and this year was my second market – and I was much more prepared! I see these markets as a way to advertise my furniture-making business whilst also giving me an outlet for my more craft oriented items such as chopping boards, turned bowls and lamp…
