Acclimatise Your Wood Folks

Acclimatise Your Wood Folks

It’s highly unlikely that the wood that you intend to have festooned on your floor will be stored in a place with the exact same temperature and humidity as the place where it’s intended to be laid. Every building has its own different natural humidity...
Mixing Wooden Furniture and Making it Look Right

Mixing Wooden Furniture and Making it Look Right

There was a time when we were encouraged by the teak vendors of the 70s to fill our rooms with furniture made from matching wood tones that mirrored the furniture showroom. Fashion tends to be more eclectic these days, with a good mix being actively encouraged. The...
Get the Rustic Look

Get the Rustic Look

How many times have you found yourself suffering from room envy when you watch the TV? There’s contemporary room envy, classical room envy, minimalist room envy … the list goes on. I tend to get my green moments mostly when I’m looking at rooms of a rustic nature. A...
Time to Bring out the Bulldog Spirit

Time to Bring out the Bulldog Spirit

So, how are you coping in these difficult times? Like a lot of businesses, we’ve closed our doors until things get better, and it’s hard. Not knowing what to do with yourself, not being able to plan anything, and not even knowing when we’ll all get back to normal....
International Day of Forests

International Day of Forests

Saturday, 21 March 2020 I’m probably not going to tell you anything that you don’t already know here. We interact with wood every day of our lives in one form or another. Whether it’s in our hands, above our heads, against our walls, under our plates or under our...