In order to maintain stock levels after a couple of weekends worth of successful Christmas markets I have spent the last week hidden away in the workshop, like one of Santa’s elves, I have been super busy making a range of my most popular items. During the year I am always making new items but […]
As you probably all know one of Good With Wood (Stroud) key services on offer is to make made to measure furniture for clients that fit in with their current décor and are designed specifically to fill a requirement. This weeks client provided me with a list of items including a cutlery tray, hall shelf […]
Thanks to recent markets I have been busy making special orders this week. Along with the normal items that I need to keep the stall going I am often asked if I can make a specific item for a customer to fit their homes and/or their limited spacces. I enjoy these projects because I […]
This week I have been busy making items for my up coming markets and filling orders for customers. I have been busier making more garden trugs this time I have just completed 22 in total. A dozen were pre-ordered for a new garden centre in Dursley called Leaf and Ground which is due […]
It always amazes me how wonderful scaffold boards are for building chunky rustic furniture. I was recently asked if I could make a set of benches and a table to seat six for a great Asian fusion restaurant Temple Mama Cirencester They already have some wonderful old furniture including an old rectory table and a […]
At the end of last week and for a couple of hours this morning I was lucky enough to be working at 1 Woodbine Cottage in the Slad Valley. For those of you who are not from the Stroud district it is a beautiful part of the Cotswolds that has been immortalised by the words of […]
Many of my projects are led by customer requirements, this was definitely the case with the hall stand I have built this week. My client has a large family and needed a storage solution for coat and scarfs but could not use the traditional method of fitting coat hooks and a shelf on the wall […]
The customer is always right… Just lately I have been on a roll when it comes to selling pigeon holes on my market stall. They are being snapped up as quick as I can make them. This is great news for me as I love making them. I am always on the lookout […]
Earlier this week I was tasked with removing an old garden shed and replacing it with another from a friends property. The relocating of the replacement shed was a little bit of fun but with the help of a couple of strong friends it was soon loaded onto my truck and transported down the M5 […]
One of my good friends recently asked me if I could replace her current garden table with something a little bigger. As she only has limited space, it needed to be compact, fit in with the look of her garden and not cost too much. As I love working with reclaimed wood I decided that […]