Kitchens
Solid timber kitchens, scribed to old walls and made to be repaired, not replaced.
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Furniture made to outlast us
Ashby Woodworks makes kitchens, tables and oak frames by hand in a stone barn outside Stroud, from English oak, ash and walnut.
- English oak, ash and walnut from Gloucestershire mills
- Drawn and made to fit your room
- Jointed and pegged, never screwed together
What we make
Furniture
Dining tables, dressers and benches, one at a time and to your measurements.
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Oak frames
Garden rooms, porches and open roofs in green oak, framed in our yard.
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A barn, three benches and a lot of oak
Tom Ashby set up his first bench in this barn in 2011, after twelve years making staircases for other people. Today there are three benches, four of us and a timber shed full of English oak drying for the years ahead.
Everything we make is drawn here, made here and fitted by the people who made it. If a drawer sticks in ten years, the person who cut its dovetails comes to plane it.
Recent pieces
Oak kitchen, Minchinhampton
Kitchen
Frame-and-panel doors in quarter-sawn oak, with a larder cupboard built round the chimney breast.
Ash dining table, Painswick
Furniture
A table for ten that folds to six, in ash from a tree that fell in the client's own village.
Washstand, Nailsworth
Furniture
A walnut washstand with a stone top, oiled to stand forty years of splashing.
How a commission runs
01
A visit
We come to the room, measure it and listen. It is free and takes an hour.
02
A drawing
Plans, a sketch in pencil and samples of the timber, with one fixed price.
03
The making
Six to ten weeks at the bench. You are welcome to come and see it half made.
04
The fitting
We bring it, fit it and oil it in place, then come back in a year to check on it.
What people say
SPSarah PearceKitchen, Minchinhampton
The kitchen fits a wall that is four inches out of true, and you would never know it. Tom scribed every cabinet by hand.
JHJoe HartleyDining table, Painswick
We asked for a table we could leave to our children. They argue about it already.
CMClare MasonOak frame, Bisley
The garden room was framed in their yard, brought over on a Tuesday and standing by Friday. Not a nail in it.
ISImran ShahDovetail class
I took the Saturday class to learn a dovetail and came home with a box and a new hobby.