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Hand-carved solid wood single bed with a hare and full moon headboard, styled in a bedroom
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A Hare, a Seal and a Northern Sky: Sylvia's Moonlit Single Beds

Some commissions stay with you long after they've left the workshop. This pair of single beds is one of them — and they've now travelled about as far as a bed can go and still be in Britain.It star...

anniversary giftHand-carved solid oak book lover's bench in a garden, with carved books, a scroll and an open book

A Library You Can Sit On: The Book Lover's Bench

What do you give someone who would happily disappear into a book for the whole afternoon? If you're Jens, you commission a bench shaped like her own little library.This one was a fifth wedding anni...

hand carvedHand-carved solid oak For My Mum memorial bench with a Buddha, birds and Love Laughter Loyalty Strength

For My Mum: Buddha, Birds and a Bench Full of Meaning

Every now and then a brief lands that tells you everything about a person in just a few symbols. This was one of those.Michael came to us wanting a memorial bench for his mum, built around the thin...

hand carvedHand-carved and painted oak children's memorial bench with a Pokémon scene and Forever in our hearts

Calum's Bench: A Pokémon World, Carved and Painted in Oak

Some benches are quiet. This one is full of colour, and that's exactly how it should be.We made this memorial bench for Calum, a little boy whose family wanted his favourite world — Pokémon — broug...

barn owlsHand-carved solid oak memorial bench with two painted barn owls, wheat sheaves and snowdrops — bespoke commission by FreeRangeDesigns

Two Owls and a Bench for Ruth

Some pieces leave the workshop and we find ourselves standing there for a moment longer than usual. This is one of them. Katherine got in touch with us last year. Her mum, Ruth Mackay, had passed ...

bespoke furnitureFront view of The Bensley hand-carved solid oak boat bench with nautical carvings

The Bensley — A Boat Bench for Rottingdean Seafront

There's something about carving a name into a piece of wood that makes it permanent in a way nothing else quite does. This bench has a name. It's called The Bensley. It was made as a memorial for ...

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