Designs for every room
Every design here is designed and checked. Open one, change anything, and take the plans.
Pictures are AI renderings of each design's 3D model, not photos of finished builds.
Living room
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Fluted oak media wall
A wall-to-wall media wall in oiled white oak and soft black. The TV hangs on a floor-to-ceiling panel of oak slats over a black backer, with a warm glow behind the screen and two LED lines running up the slats. Below it a floating console with six fluted doors hangs on a French cleat, lit underneath, between tall open oak shelves over black cupboards.
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Arched fireplace media wall
A whole fireplace wall: a limewashed chimney breast with fluted pilasters, a chunky oak mantel and the TV above, between olive alcove cupboards whose open shelves sit behind tall arched fronts, each shelf lit by a warm LED strip.
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Oxblood bar cabinet
A glossy oxblood bar cabinet on tapered walnut legs with brass feet: a diamond wine lattice down one side, glass doors over lit shelves for the glassware, two drawers for the bar tools, and a solid walnut top.
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Reeded walnut media console
A long, low black walnut media console whose four inset doors are covered in fine half-round reeds, sitting on a deeply recessed soft-black plinth so it seems to hover an inch above the floor. Push-to-open hinges keep the reeding unbroken from end to end.
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Oak TV-lift console
A long white-oak media console with a 55-inch TV on a motorised lift in the middle. Lowered, the TV disappears and the lid closes flush, leaving a clean oak top. Cupboards with edge pulls at each end hold the speaker and the game consoles.
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Arched cherry vitrine
A tall cherry display cabinet on slender tapered legs, its pair of glazed doors rising into soft arches, with glass shelves, a warm LED strip under the top and a back lined in deep teal so everything inside glows against it.
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Heather picture-frame panelled wall
A whole living-room wall given period architecture: a 6mm MDF lining over tired plaster, then a deep skirting, a moulded dado rail, ten mitred picture-frame panels in two tiers and a cove cornice, all painted one soft heather. It stands no more than 100mm proud even at the cornice, so it goes behind a sofa or a console, and it costs a fraction of real panelling.
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Plywood room divider
A floor-to-ceiling room divider of open birch-plywood boxes stacked in a brick bond, every other column offset by half a box, with four closed cubbies painted dusty blue scattered through it. Open from both sides and fixed to a ceiling joist, so it needs no back.
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Cherry keepsake box with walnut splines
A cherry keepsake box sized for letters, photographs and a child's first shoes, its mitred corners locked with walnut splines that show as fine dark stripes. The lid is sawn from the same mitred box, so the grain runs unbroken over the joint line, and maple liners standing proud of the body seat the lid without a catch.
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Joinery oak low table
A low, generous coffee table in pale white oak, built like a small timber frame: chunky square legs tenoned up into cross rails that carry the top, low stretchers that echo the rails at each end, and five slim slats beneath for books and baskets. No metal anywhere - just joinery and a matte, soap-like finish.
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Smoked oak nesting tables
A pair of nesting side tables in smoked white oak, its ray-fleck grain glowing through a deep tobacco-brown stain: slim tapered legs, softly rounded tops, and the smaller one sliding right under the larger when you need the floor back.
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Rust record wall
A wall for a vinyl collection: a long, low run of rust-orange cubbies each sized for a 12-inch record, oak-fronted cupboards in the middle for the amp, a solid oak top for the turntable, and two lipped oak ledges above, carried on slim oak uprights, where the favourite sleeves go on show.
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Maple lit slat wall with floating shelf
A living-room wall of oiled maple slats on a charcoal backer, floor to ceiling and only 50mm deep, with two warm LED lines running up it and a floating maple shelf between them, lit underneath. It lights the seating end of the room without a single floor lamp or trailing cable, and the shelf holds art at the right height over the back of a sofa.
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Red oak charging sofa console
A sofa-back console in honey-toned red oak, only 260mm deep and 720mm high so it tucks behind a sofa floated off the wall: sockets and USB chargers set flush in the top, a hidden wireless pad at one end and a cable tray underneath. It takes the place of side tables and trailing extension leads, and turns the back of the sofa into a lamp table, a drop for phones and a low shelf for baskets.
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Floating oak shelves with lights
A Scandinavian trio of oiled white oak shelves — clean, warm, and lit from within — that sit like they grew out of the sage green wall.
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Cherry credenza
A mid-century credenza in solid cherry, long and low on four splayed, tapered legs: a bank of three drawers between two pairs of slab doors, with slim brass edge pulls and a warm oil finish that will deepen to red-gold over the years.
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Sage media wall
A low sage-green media unit with slab doors, flanked by two tall bookcases with picture lights - the television hangs on the wall between them.
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Oak plant étagère
A tall, airy étagère for plants and pots: five soft-cornered white oak shelves threaded on slim blackened maple posts, each post section is tenoned through the shelf below and capped with a little turned finial. Made for the spot beside a sunny window.
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Record console
A crisp mid-century console in oiled white oak — glass doors, open turntable bay, and brass details that sing against the charcoal wall.
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Maple hi-fi console
A listening-room set in solid hard maple: a low, open hi-fi console built from 40mm-thick boards - chunky end slabs, thick housed shelves and staggered partitions for the amp, the turntable and the records - with a pair of matching speaker plinths, each floating on a dark recessed foot, that lift the speakers to ear height. Finished in an amber-tinted oil that gives the pale maple a honeyed glow.
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Butter yellow window bookcase
A long, low bookcase that runs under a pair of windows, painted a soft butter yellow, its open bays divided by little fluted pilasters and finished with a continuous oiled oak top - deep enough for a row of plants and a cushion to perch on.
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Black and oak aquarium stand
A stand for a 300 litre aquarium: a soft black painted case with 24mm sides and a middle pair taking the weight, four slab doors with brass edge pulls hiding the filter and supplies, on a shadow-gap kick, under a natural oiled white oak top that frames the glass.
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Walnut pill coffee table
A soft-edged coffee table in black walnut: a pill-shaped top with fully rounded ends, carried on two thick slab ends each cut through with an arch, joined by hidden rails. Curvy and sculptural from every side, and without a single sharp corner to bump a shin on.
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Graphite panelled TV wall with hidden cables
A TV wall with nowhere for a cable to show: a 100mm timber build-out skinned in MDF between two tall open shelf columns, with recessed power and AV boxes behind the TV and behind the console joined by conduit in the stud void, a picture-frame panel round the screen, all in matt warm graphite so the TV all but vanishes when it is off. Below it an oiled oak console with four slab doors hangs on a French cleat, glowing underneath, and the columns carry oak shelves for books and speakers.
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Walnut coffee table
A low black walnut coffee table with an H-stretcher and softly rounded edges, on a pale rug in a warm grey room.
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Limed oak nesting coffee tables
Three tables in the floor space of one: a low limed white oak coffee table on thick slab ends, open at the front so two tapered-leg side tables slide right underneath it. Pull one out for a drink beside the armchair, both for guests, push them home and the living room is clear again, 1000 x 560mm and nothing more.
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Ebonised oak record crate
A rolling crate for about 120 LPs that lives under a turntable and comes out to play: ebonised oak ends with scooped tops to lift by and flick through, natural oak slats housed in both ends, a sliding index divider and four soft casters, two of them braked. The ends stop 50mm below the sleeves, so every record can be read and pulled without lifting the rest.
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Cherry gallery ledges on twin-slot rails
Three 1.1m cherry picture ledges that hang on twin-slot rails painted out to the wall, so the gallery can be moved up, down or rearranged on a whim without a single new hole. Each ledge has a raised front lip and a deep back rail so frames, prints and plates lean safely in two layers.
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Birch room divider with fold-out desk
A double-sided birch plywood room divider 1200mm wide and 400mm deep that splits a studio into living and working halves, with an ink-black desk box set into one column: its front folds down on brass stays to an 800mm-deep lino-topped desk at 740mm, lit inside by a warm strip. Shelves open to both sides, so the wall it replaces still lets the light through.
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Oak guitar wall with a top shelf
A white oak wall rail that hangs three guitars by their headstocks on leather-lined yokes, with a lipped shelf above for the tuner, capo, picks and spare strings, so the instruments are out of the way but one reach from being played. It hangs on a French cleat, and the yoke arms are tenoned into the backboard rather than screwed.
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Limestone arched niche wall
A living-room wall built out 280mm on plywood ribs and faced in limestone-coloured MDF, with three tall arched niches cut into it: each lined, fitted with two oak shelves on an oak sill and lit by a warm puck light let into the top of the arch, under a cove cornice. Display shelving that takes up no floor, with the depth of the build-out hiding the speaker and lighting cables.
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Petrol blue slatted radiator cover
A radiator cover that turns the most awkward metre of wall in a small room into a 230mm-deep oak shelf: petrol blue slats in front, at least 60mm clear above a standard 600mm radiator, an open kick below for cool air to draw in and a brass vent grille let into the back of the top so the heat still rises. It replaces the console table there was never room for, and hides the radiator for good.
Kitchen & dining
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Olive pantry wall
A floor-to-ceiling pantry wall painted deep olive: banks of deep pull-out drawers below, tall Shaker cupboards above and open cubbies for baskets under the cove crown. In the middle, a lit open niche for the stand mixer under glass-fronted cupboards.
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Bottle green wine wall
A floor-to-ceiling wine wall painted deep bottle green: two diamond-lattice towers holding well over a hundred bottles frame a serving sideboard with brass-pulled cupboards, under open display shelves lit by brass picture lights, all tied together by a cove crown.
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Espresso work-table island
A freestanding kitchen island in espresso-brown paint on four square legs, under a 40mm hard maple butcher-block top that overhangs 370mm at the back for stools. Three wide drawers run under the top, a slatted maple pot shelf sits low between the legs, and brass towel rails cross each end.
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End-grain checkerboard butcher block
A 450 x 360mm end-grain butcher block in an eighty-square checkerboard of hard maple and black walnut, 40mm thick, with stopped juice grooves down both long sides and finger recesses coved into each end. The end grain takes a knife edge between its fibres instead of across them, so blades stay sharp longer and cuts close up; silicone feet lift it 10mm so it never slides, rocks or sits in a puddle.
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Maple coffee station
A pale hard maple coffee station: an appliance garage with black walnut doors hides the espresso machine on a walnut counter, under an open lit shelf for cups, between two slim glass-door towers for mugs and beans, over drawers and cupboards.
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Cherry board with a sloped crumb well
An edge-grain cherry board, 500 x 300 x 32mm, with two maple pinstripes and a shallow well carved into one end whose floor slopes 12mm down toward the end wall. Sweep chopped onion or bread crumbs down the slope and they gather in the well instead of skittering across the counter, then tip straight into the pan; a coved finger lift under the far end picks it up off a flat worktop.
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Walnut fold-down table cupboard
A slim walnut wall cupboard only 172mm deep whose middle front folds down on a piano hinge and a fold-out leg frame into a 800 x 640mm table for two, lit from above by a warm strip over the mugs. Closed it is a flat cupboard on the wall; the two folding chairs live behind the doors below, so a kitchen corner becomes a dining room.
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Ink blue banquette nook
A colour-drenched breakfast nook: a deep ink-blue banquette with wide drawers under the seat, an oiled oak seat board and ochre linen cushions against a wall of white oak slats, round an oak pedestal table on a cross foot.
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Over-the-sink board with a drain grate
An 820 x 360mm maple board that bridges the sink: a solid chopping field at one end, a slatted drain grate at the other, framed by long rails and tenoned slats. Two cleats underneath drop just inside the bowl so it cannot slide, giving a tiny kitchen a second worktop exactly where you rinse, peel and drain; lift it off and lean it behind the tap when you need the sink.
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Tomato red drop-leaf island cart
A rolling kitchen island in satin tomato red under a 40mm hard maple butcher block, with three drawers, an open shelf for the mixing bowls and a towel rail. Its 380mm drop leaf folds down flat against the end, so it parks in 960mm of floor and opens to a 1340mm prep counter or a breakfast bar for two; the braked castors take it wherever the cooking is.
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Charcoal home bar
A charcoal home bar wall with glass-fronted cabinets for the glassware, each shelf lit by a warm LED strip. Open bottle shelves glow in the middle over a drawer bank for the bar tools. Shaker cupboards below have brass bar pulls, under a cove crown.
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Claret china hutch
A freestanding china hutch in deep claret red: glass-fronted cabinets lit inside from top to bottom, standing back on a deeper base of Shaker cupboards and a bank of silverware drawers, under a cove crown with brass knobs and cup pulls.
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Cutting board with a slide-out scrap tray
A raised maple chopping board, 460 x 340mm, standing on two long skirts, with a walnut-fronted tray that slides out from under the open end. Push peelings and trimmings off the edge straight into the tray instead of chasing them across the counter, then carry the tray to the compost; it slides back under the board, so the whole set takes no more counter than the board alone.
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Navy kitchen dresser
A painted dresser for a kitchen wall: drawers and shaker cupboards below a maple worktop, open plate shelves above with picture lights, a face frame and a cove crown.
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Mushroom butler's pantry
A butler's pantry run painted a soft mushroom taupe: face-framed drawers and cupboards with satin nickel pulls under a honed white marble worktop and upstand, and lit glass-fronted wall cabinets that run up to a cove crown, washed underneath with warm light.
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Pinstriped walnut serving paddle
A 560mm walnut serving paddle glued up from seven strips, two maple pinstripes running the length of its 380 x 250mm head and the centre strip carrying on into a long rounded handle. Thin and flat at 16mm, it slides under a pizza or a loaf like a peel, goes straight to the table as the serving board, and its handle hangs over the table edge so the board itself takes no more room than the food on it.
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Walnut sideboard
A long, low black walnut sideboard: slab-door cupboards either side of an open bay for records, on a recessed plinth so it seems to float, against a deep teal wall.
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Long cherry charcuterie plank
A metre-long cherry grazing plank, 300mm wide and 22mm thick, with a rounded tab handle shaped into each end and two battens let into sliding dovetails underneath. The battens keep a long, thin board flat for years - glued only at their centres, they let the cherry move across its width without cupping or cracking - and lift it 15mm so fingers get under the tabs to carry a full spread down the middle of the table.
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Smoked oak trestle table
A 2200mm trestle dining table in smoked white oak: wide board uprights on chamfered feet and top bearers, tied by a single deep stretcher, every joint draw-bored with oak pegs instead of glued, under a 38mm top with nothing at the corners to knock a knee on, so eight sit easily.
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Bread board with a lift-out crumb grate
A 480 x 300mm bread board in two parts: a shallow walnut tray with a floating bottom, and a lift-out grate of nine maple slats on two battens that drops over locating pins inside it. Every crumb from a crusty loaf falls between the slats instead of across the table; lift the grate off and tip the tray over the bin, and the tray alone doubles as a serving tray.
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Tobacco grid-panelled dining wall
A dining-room wall gridded from skirting to cornice: 70mm MDF uprights and cross rails over a lining, making twenty-four near-square panels, the whole lot painted tobacco brown in eggshell, with two brass picture lights on the top rails. The grid frames art for you - a print sits in a square and looks intended - and the wall stands just 24mm proud, so the table and chairs lose nothing.
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Breadboard farmhouse table
A 2100mm farmhouse table with a weathered pine top held flat by breadboard ends, pegged so the top can move with the seasons, on a soft-black painted base of tapered legs, deep aprons and a low H-stretcher.
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Cornflower slim rolling pantry
A pull-out pantry only 170mm wide that lives in the dead gap between the fridge and the wall: pull the brass handle and 560mm of shelves roll out on quiet castors, six levels of tins, jars and spices with maple dowel galleries so nothing slides off and a guide pin running in a channel overhead so it cannot tip. Pushed home, only a slim cornflower-blue panel shows; it adds a whole larder cupboard to a kitchen with no cupboard to spare.
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Double-sided magnetic knife stand
An arched black walnut slab, 300mm wide and 420mm tall, glued up from two boards with the grain running across, tenoned upright into a heavy walnut foot, with rows of rare-earth magnets hidden 3mm under both faces. It holds a dozen knives of any length on two sides in a 340 x 200mm footprint at the end of an island, with no slots to trap crumbs or dull an edge, and the blades never knock together in a drawer.
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Walnut drinks cabinet
A tall mid-century drinks cabinet in oiled black walnut on slim legs: glass doors with brass knobs over shelves lit by warm LED strips for bottles and coupes, a wide drawer for bar tools below, and a solid walnut top that overhangs a touch for mixing on.
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Three-tier cherry spice step
A three-step cherry riser for the back of a cupboard, 400mm wide and 225mm deep, each tread 40mm higher and 75mm further back than the one before, with a low lip along every front edge. Thirty small jars stand in three rows where every label can be read at a glance, so the cumin stops hiding behind the paprika; the treads and risers sit in housings in stepped sides, so it never racks.
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Pistachio beadboard breakfast nook
A breakfast nook along one kitchen wall: pistachio beadboard to just under the window sill with a cap ledge for herbs, and in front of it a 2.2m bench of two deep drawer cases under an oiled oak seat, dressed with ticking cushions. Three people eat at it, the drawers swallow placemats, napkins and the board games, and the painted boarding behind your back wipes clean.
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Maple two-step storage stool
A sturdy two-step kitchen stool in oiled hard maple, 450mm wide and 400mm deep, that reaches the top cupboards and stores what a cupboard would: the top step lifts on a soft-close stay to a box for cloths and bags, and the bottom step shelters an open cubby for a basket. It replaces both a folding ladder and a drawer in a kitchen with neither to spare, and doubles as a seat for small helpers.
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Cherry plate rack wall
A cottage kitchen wall boarded in sage tongue-and-groove, hung with an oiled cherry plate rack - plates standing between rows of dowels, a shelf for bowls, a brass mug rail and a scooped cornice - beside two cherry shelves on cove-cut brackets, over a Shaker peg rail.
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Upright cutting-board rack
A white oak rack with five swept dividers housed in a solid base: two 60mm bays for chunky chopping blocks and two 45mm bays for thin boards and trays, tied together at the back by a through dowel. Boards stand on edge where both faces dry in the air instead of sweating in a stack, and any one lifts straight out without unstacking the rest - four boards in 400mm of counter.
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Ochre cookbook window seat
A kitchen window wrapped in ochre built-ins: tall face-framed cookbook shelves either side with brass picture lights, a bridge shelf over the window, and a deep window seat with drawers under an oiled oak bench top and an oatmeal linen cushion.
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Glass-lidded cherry tea chest
A 300 x 200mm cherry tea chest with a half-lapped egg-crate of thin dividers making eight compartments, and a doweled frame lid round a pane of glass on solid brass hinges. Every tea is in view before the lid lifts, so the right one comes out first time, and loose sachets that used to slump in a cupboard stand in tidy rows; a gift that still looks good on the counter.
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Reeded cherry sideboard
A long floating sideboard in oiled cherry with six reeded doors on push-to-open hinges, hung on a French cleat so the floor runs clean underneath and a warm LED glow washes the wall below, finished with a honed travertine top.
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Bread bin with a cutting-board lid
A soft-black painted bread bin, 420 x 260mm, whose lid is a 22mm maple bread board on brass lift-off hinges, with two cleats underneath that locate it inside the walls. Lift the lid off, turn it over onto its cleats and it is the board you slice on, right beside the loaf - one piece on the counter doing the job of two, and the crumbs brush straight back into the bin.
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Wall-hung pot-lid rack
A 520mm-wide walnut rack for the wall beside the hob: three housed ledges, each with a back rail and a polished 12mm brass rod in front, so lids stand on edge nested two or three deep and lean back against the rail. Lids are the most awkward thing in a kitchen cupboard; here eight of them live flat to the wall in 90mm of depth, each one lifted off with one hand.
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Shaker oak dining table
A Shaker-style 1800 x 900mm table with tapered legs, mortise and tenon aprons and a 30mm top with softened edges, which seats six without crowding.
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Walnut mug tree with maple pegs
A tapered walnut post tenoned into a half-lapped cross foot, with six hard maple pegs glued in at 28 degrees, two to a level and each level turned a quarter so the mugs never clash. Six mugs hang in a 230mm square of counter instead of a shelf of cupboard, handles out and ready, and they drip-dry upside down after washing.
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Freestanding stemware rack
A white oak stand, 460 x 300mm and 330mm tall, with eight rails tenoned into a deep back crossbar and left open at the front, 17mm apart. Wine glasses slide in upside down by the stem with their feet bridging two rails, so twenty hang bowl-down out of the dust; they drip-dry straight after washing with no water pooling in the bowls and no rims chipping in a cupboard, and it needs no wall cabinet to hang from.
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Oat Craftsman wainscot with cherry plate ledge
A tall Craftsman wainscot for a dining room: wide flat stiles, a deep base rail and a frieze rail in oat-coloured paint on an MDF ground, topped at 1.47m by an oiled cherry plate ledge with a stop bead, carried on six cove-cut cherry corbels. Serving platters and the good plates live on the wall instead of in a cupboard, and the wainscot takes every chair-back knock below.
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Lazy-susan caddy with crossed dividers
A 380mm hard maple turntable on a hidden 150mm ball-bearing plate, with two crowned walnut dividers half-lapped into a cross that splits it into four bays. Oils, vinegars, salt and pepper and the sauces each get a quarter, and one spin brings the bottle at the back of a deep corner cupboard - or the middle of the table - round to your hand; the crown doubles as a lifting handle.
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Stovetop noodle board
A 780 x 560mm maple board between two saffron-yellow painted skirts that stand it 90mm clear of the hob, the planks running front to back like the skirts so the whole board moves together with the seasons. Laid over a cold cooktop it turns the most wasted 0.4 square metres of a small kitchen into worktop for rolling pasta, kneading or serving; the arched skirts leave a hand-hold under each end to lift it off.
Bedroom
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Blue-grey headboard wall
A wall-to-wall built-in around the bed, painted the same deep blue-grey as the room: bedside towers with two drawers and lit open shelves, cupboards bridging over the top under a cove crown, and a channel-tufted rust velvet headboard set into the alcove. Brass swing-arm reading lights reach in from each tower, so the nightstands stay clear.
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Olive window seat
A reading window seat built right across a bedroom bay in smoky olive: two deep drawers under an oiled oak seat and a thick ticking-stripe cushion, bookcases rising either side over shaker cupboards, a cupboard bridging over the window under a cove crown, and a brass swing-arm light on each side for reading after dark.
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Oak platform storage bed
A low queen platform bed in oiled white oak, with three deep drawers tucked under the foot behind a shadow-line lip and a floating black kick, and a fluted oak headboard screwed to the wall behind it. Calm and Japanese-leaning, with a whole chest of drawers hiding in plain sight.
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Walnut jewellery box with a lift-out tray
A walnut jewellery box with a hard maple tray that lifts out or slides back on maple runners, so rings, studs and the necklaces underneath all live in one 320mm footprint instead of three dishes. Rabbeted corners, a felt-lined floor split into a necklace bay and a bracelet bay, and brass quadrant hinges that hold the lid open on their own.
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Cherry tall dresser
A tall chest of drawers in solid cherry, oiled so it deepens to a warm red-brown over the years: graduated drawers from two deep ones at the bottom to a pair of small ones at the top, on short square legs, with slim brass bar pulls and an overhanging top. Two anti-tip brackets hold it to the wall.
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Aubergine low dresser
A long, low nine-drawer dresser painted deep aubergine, with brushed brass edge pulls tucked along the top of every drawer, standing on a recessed white oak sled base under a thick oiled oak top. Wide enough to share, low enough to hang a big mirror or a painting over.
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Oak watch box with a glass lid
An oak watch box for eight watches under a glazed lid, so the collection is on show and dust-free at once, with a felt-lined drawer underneath for spare straps, cufflinks and the tools to change them. The drawer runs on maple runners in grooved sides, with no metal slides to take up room.
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Putty linen press armoire
A tall armoire in the old linen-press shape: a deep two-drawer chest at the bottom, and above it a slightly shallower wardrobe behind a pair of full-height Shaker doors, with a hat shelf and a long brass-finished hanging rail inside. Painted warm putty, with a face frame, a cove crown and brass bar pulls, and fixed to the wall at the top.
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Birch walk-in closet
A floor-to-ceiling walk-in closet run in clear-lacquered birch plywood, its striped edges left proud: a long-hang bay for coats and dresses, a tower of four drawers under softly lit shelves, a double-hang bay for shirts and trousers, and a lit tower of shoe shelves. Matt black rails and pulls keep it crisp.
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Oak plank headboard wall with floating nightstands
A wall-to-wall headboard of wide oiled oak planks with shadow gaps, on furring battens into the studs and a pine sole plate faced in oak, capped by a ledge for a glass of water and a book. Two oak nightstands with a drawer each hang on French cleats either side of the bed, so the floor under them stays clear for slippers and the vacuum, and two black swing-arm lights are screwed to the planks above them.
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Taupe teen study wall
A grown-up study wall for a teenager’s room in matt mushroom taupe: a long floating white oak desk between a tower of drawers under lit open shelves and a tall two-door cupboard, with a full-width cork pinboard over the desk and handle-less push-to-open slab cupboards above it, lit underneath by a warm LED strip.
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Walnut nightstand pair
A pair of mid-century nightstands in oiled black walnut, one each side of the bed: a slim drawer with a brushed brass edge pull over an open shelf for books, on four square legs, under a thicker top with a soft rounded edge. Small enough to build in a weekend, and they lift a bedroom on their own.
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Cherry window-sill desk
A floating cherry desk that carries the window sill out into the room: its top sits level with a 760mm sill so the sill becomes the back of the desk, and two slim drawers hang beneath on concealed steel plates and a rail into the studs, with nothing on the floor. It turns the brightest spot in a small bedroom into a 1400 x 460mm workspace without giving up an inch of the walls either side.
Kids
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Denim blue captain's bed
A single captain's bed in denim blue with six deep drawers on the front, round-shouldered ends and a low back along the wall, so by day it is a sofa for reading and by night a bed. The drawers hold what a chest of drawers would, which frees the 500 x 1000mm of floor a dresser takes in a small child's room.
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Eucalyptus loft bed with desk
A single loft bed on oiled maple posts with a two-metre desk and a book shelf tucked underneath, so one 2.1 x 1m footprint does the work of a bed, a desk and a bookcase. Built safe: eucalyptus-green guard panels stand 180mm above the 150mm mattress all round, the straight ladder runs up past the deck as handholds, and both back posts are fixed to the wall; for children six and over, in a room with a ceiling of at least 2400mm.
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Sage nursery changing dresser
A soft sage nursery dresser that changes a baby now and holds a toddler’s clothes later: two seagrass baskets in open cubbies at the bottom, two deep drawers, and an oiled maple top with a raised changing tray, guarded on all four sides, holding a contoured pad. Every edge is rounded and it is fixed to the wall.
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Dusty blue toy bench
A long, low toy bench in dusty blue with four open cubbies, each holding a soft felt bin in terracotta, oatmeal, sage or mustard, under a solid pine seat with well-rounded edges and a washable mustard cushion. There is no lid to trap fingers: toys go in from the front, and tidying up becomes a colour game.
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Coral two-step stool for kids
A two-step stool that lets a small child reach the bathroom basin or the kitchen counter on their own: 210mm and 420mm treads on a 380mm-deep base, sides arched between the feet so it stands on four rubber pads and never rocks. Every corner is rounded to 30mm, the maple treads carry grip strips, and a riser and two rails are housed in both sides so it cannot rack.
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Powder blue kitchen helper tower
A kitchen helper tower that brings a toddler safely up to counter height to stir, wash and watch: a standing platform that moves between three cleat heights as they grow, a back step to climb in by, and maple safety rails on three sides. The sides splay from 380mm at the top to 520mm on the floor, so it is far harder to push over than a stool.
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Kids art desk with paper roll
A child-height art desk with a maple top at 560mm: a cornflower-blue pedestal of four shallow flat-file drawers that keep paintings flat, a pedestal of paper cubbies, and a birch upstand with a crayon ledge and a big roll of kraft paper that pulls down over the desk and tears off against a cutting bar. Rounded everywhere, and fixed to the wall.
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Double-sided maple kids' easel
A two-sided A-frame easel so two children can draw at once, a whiteboard on one face and a chalkboard on the other, with a paper roll across the top that pulls down over the whiteboard. Fixed, not folding: the top cap and a low storage shelf lock the legs at their spread, so there is no hinge to trap fingers and nowhere for it to collapse.
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Terracotta arch reading nook
A kids’ reading nook built around a painted terracotta arch: a cushioned bench with two big toy drawers in front of it, a swing-arm light for bedtime stories, and on each side a shallow birch tower of forward-facing book ledges with maple lips, so covers face out at a child’s height and choosing a book is half the fun.
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Sunny kids bookcase
A low, wide bookcase painted sunshine yellow, at the right height for small hands, with cupboards below for the toys.
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Maple building-brick table with bins
A child-height building table with six baseplates set inside a raised maple rim, so bricks stay on the table instead of underfoot, and eight colour-coded bins that slide out on maple runners from both long sides - sort by colour, tip a bin onto the top, slide it back. A plywood shelf below takes the big boxes and the half-built models.
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Dolls' house bookcase
A bookcase shaped like a little house, with a terracotta gable roof, a chimney and two rooms on the first floor, that works as a dolls' house and a library at once. Maple ledges on two floors stand picture books facing out so a child can choose by cover, it is anchored to the wall with two brackets, and every edge is rounded.
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Teal panelled toy chest
A frame-and-panel toy chest in faded teal with an oiled oak lid that doubles as a bench, built so it can never shut on a child: soft-close stays hold the lid at any angle, and rubber bumpers stop it 12mm above the frame, which also lets air in. Rope handles, a raised floor on cleats and posts mortised to every rail keep it square for a lifetime of toys.
Home office
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Walnut command desk
A 2.6-metre walnut desk with four monitors on a motorised lift behind it. Press the button and they sink into the back of the desk under a walnut lid that closes flush with the top. Two drawer pedestals, edge pulls and a warm LED strip along the front.
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Cherry corner desk
An L-shaped desk in oiled cherry that wraps a corner of the room: a long run against the wall, a return that reaches out on a pedestal of two deep file drawers, and a solid cherry end panel where the two meet. Brass cup pulls, a brass cable grommet and three cherry shelves above on brass brackets and slim cherry wall standards.
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Powder blue fold-down wall desk
A whole desk that hangs on the wall only 220mm deep: the powder blue front drops on brass stays into a 580mm-deep writing surface at 730mm, opening up oiled oak pigeonholes lit by a warm strip, then folds back up into a flat cabinet when the working day ends. It replaces a desk and a chair-sized slice of floor in a studio flat.
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Oak standing desk with a cobalt pegboard
A thick oiled oak top on an electric sit-stand frame, in front of a floor-to-ceiling wall of cobalt-blue pegboard where oak pegs hold three little shelves at whatever height you like. The board is screwed to battens on the wall, so every peg can carry a shelf, a pair of headphones or a bag.
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Teal office wall
A wall-to-wall home office painted deep teal, walls and all: a supply cupboard to the ceiling, an oak desk on two drawer pedestals, glass-fronted uppers with a lit open shelf between them, and a linen pin board filling the wall behind the desk.
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Oxblood secretary desk
A tall drop-front secretary lacquered glossy oxblood: three drawers below, a fall front that folds down on brass stays into a tan leather writing surface, oak pigeonholes behind it, and a glass-doored bookcase above under a cove crown. Closed, it is a handsome cabinet; open, a whole desk in a metre of wall.
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Walnut desk docking station
A walnut docking station that clears the front of a desk in one stroke: leather-padded slots for a tablet, two phones and a notebook, a valet tray for keys, pens and a watch, a wireless charging pad let in flush, and a headphone arm on a tenoned post. Every cable runs out the back under the base, so nothing trails across the work surface.
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Olive filing credenza
A long, low credenza for under the office window, in satin olive with a thick oiled oak top: deep drawers at each end that take hanging files, a pair of plain cupboard doors between them, and the whole case lifted on an oak stand with slender tapered legs. Long brass bar pulls run across every front.
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Butter yellow craft wall
A four-metre craft room wall in soft butter yellow: deep drawers for yarn, a bank of shallow drawers for tools, map drawers for paper and cupboards for fabric bolts, all under a standing-height maple cutting counter with a brass rule set into its front edge. Lit cubbies rise from the counter to the ceiling at each end, with a pegboard, roll rod and maple shelf between them.
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Artist's plan chest
Two eight-drawer plan chests side by side in French grey-blue, under one long oiled maple top big enough to spread out a print. Sixteen shallow drawers with brass cup pulls hold A1 paper flat, a drawing board sits on maple rests at one end of the top, and a diamond lattice at the other holds rolled drawings and paper.
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Slat wall streaming desk
A two-metre gaming and streaming desk: a thick oiled oak top on a soft-black drawer pedestal and an open computer bay, with a long oak monitor shelf on solid legs. Behind it a floor-to-ceiling wall of oak slats on black, split by two glowing LED channels that frame the screen.
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Two-person study wall
A four-metre study wall for two in soft mushroom: a walnut desk each side of a central cupboard and lit bookcase, each with its own drawer pedestal, handle-free push-to-open cupboards overhead with a warm light strip beneath, and a black swing-arm lamp reaching over each desk from the bookcase.
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Terracotta desk
A calm, Scandinavian-inflected slab desk — two wide side panels, a floating top, two generous drawers and a tidy monitor shelf — all in matte terracotta against your cream wall.
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Blush sewing table
A generous sewing table with a thick oiled oak top on two dusty-blush drawer pedestals raised on slim square legs. At the back, oak uprights hold a blush spool board with fifty-five maple pegs for thread, a brass rail for scissors and a shelf of glass jars over it all.
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Cherry alcove nook desk
A wall-to-wall cherry desk that turns a 1100mm alcove or a closet with its doors off into a study: a 32mm top on cleats with no legs to bang into, a drawer hung under one end, clear of your knees, an ink-plum backboard carrying a linen pinboard and two floating shelves with a warm light under the lower one. It uses the dead recess beside a chimney breast and leaves the room's floor exactly as it was.
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Oak sewing and craft caddy
A red oak sewing caddy that carries a whole project from cupboard to table in one hand: nine walnut spool pegs along the tall centre divider, three bays in front for scissors, rulers and the pincushion, two deeper bays behind for fabric and yarn, and a walnut handle through arched ends. Everything is housed in dados, so it stays square however heavy it is loaded.
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Cinnamon video-call backdrop wall
The wall behind a home-office desk, designed for the camera: a cinnamon grid of uprights and rails on an MDF lining, oat acoustic felt in five of its bays to take the echo out of a bare room, two open oak display boxes framing your head in the camera row and a lit oak ledge above that throws a soft warm backlight. It looks considered on every call and stands only 200mm off the wall.
Built-ins
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Black library wall
A wall-to-wall library in satin black: shaker cupboards and a bank of drawers on a plinth, a moulded ledge, and open bookcases above between wide fluted pilasters. A cove crown runs along the ceiling, with a brass picture light over every bay.
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Hidden bookcase door
An oxblood library wall where the middle bookcase is really a door. It swings out on concealed pivots to a secret room, its shelves lined up with the bookcases either side, and a wide latch stile hides the gap. A cove crown and brass picture lights finish the wall.
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Murphy bed library wall
A queen wall bed that folds away behind what looks like four tall Shaker doors, between two bookcases with cupboards below and a row of cupboards bridging over the top. Pull the brass handles and it comes down on its own fold-down leg, lifted by a bought piston kit, with a brass reading light reaching out either side of the pillows. A cove crown runs across the whole wall, and the shelves glow with warm LED strips.
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Sage library with rolling ladder
A wall of sage bookcases to the ceiling over shaker cupboards, with an oiled white oak ledge between them. A white oak library ladder rolls along a brass rail on a solid rail board painted to match, with brackets close enough to hold a person without the rail bowing. Warm LED strips light every shelf.
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Walnut library with a desk niche
A four-and-a-half-metre library wall in solid oiled walnut, with frame-and-panel doors and face frames, a cove crown and a brass picture light over every bay. In the middle a writing desk is tucked into a niche lined in cognac leather, between two brass reading lamps, and a walnut ladder rolls the whole length on a black rail.
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Oak coffee and wine bar
A built-in coffee and wine bar in oiled white oak, set between two tall pantry cupboards. Under the counter an X-cubby holds a dozen bottles beside drawers for coffee and a glass-door wine fridge. Above, a deep green tiled niche with two floating oak shelves, brass stemware racks and warm LED strips, under glass-fronted cabinets for the glasses.
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Chocolate music room wall
A music room wall drenched in chocolate brown: two towers of LP-sized cubes for a record collection, lit shelves above them, and between them a walnut-topped console with an open amplifier bay and drawers for pedals and cables. Over the console, a walnut rail carries three brass guitar hangers, and a slim ledge shows the record that is playing.
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Blue-green mudroom lockers
Four open lockers in a soft blue-green, one for everyone in the house, with shiplap backs and two black double hooks on a rail in each. An oiled white oak bench runs across the bottom with a seagrass basket under each seat, and more baskets sit in the cubbies over the hat shelf. A cove crown finishes it at the ceiling, and two anti-tip brackets hold it to the wall.
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Moody library wall
Deep green built-ins in the English library tradition: face-framed bookcases with picture lights and a cove crown, shaker cupboards below, and an oak window seat between them.
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Walnut and maple chess table
A walnut side table with a maple and walnut chessboard for a top and a baize-lined drawer for each side's pieces, so a game can be left half-played and the set never goes missing. A slatted shelf below holds the clock and the captured pieces; the top floats on buttons so the border can move with the seasons.
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Maple arch bookends
A pair of tall arched bookends in hard maple, each standing on a thin blackened steel plate that slides under the first few books, so the books' own weight holds the row upright instead of a heavy block taking up shelf space. The plates screw on through slotted holes so the maple can move, and cork underneath spares the shelf.
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Smoky blue window seat library
A reading library built round a window in smoky blue: bookcases to the ceiling either side, a bridge of shelves over the window and one cove crown across it all. Under the window, a deep seat with four big drawers, a rust velvet cushion and linen bolsters, and a brass swing-arm reading light on each side.
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Shaker library wall
A Shaker-style wall of birch plywood carcasses with white oak frame-and-panel doors, open shelves above, and a storage bench with a cushion under a bridging bookshelf in the middle.
Entry & mudroom
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Slate blue under-stair storage
Built-in storage that fills the space under a staircase, stepping up with it: deep drawers at the low end, an open bay for books and baskets, then tall Shaker cupboards for coats and the vacuum, all in slate blue-grey with brass pulls, and painted infill panels cut to the line of the stair.
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Oak dog crate console
A dog crate that passes for furniture: an oiled white oak console with a generous top for lamps and post, round oak bars on all four sides, a barred door on brass hinges with a brass slide bolt, and a sage linen bed inside.
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Olive hall tree with arched mirror
A built-in hall tree in olive green: a white oak bench over two drawers, an arched mirror set into an oiled oak back between brass coat hooks, tall cupboards and open cubbies either side, and a little hat cupboard under the cornice.
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Slim walnut shoe cabinet
A shallow black walnut shoe cabinet for a narrow entry: three book-matched slab doors with brass edge pulls on slim tapered legs, two shelves behind each door, and a round walnut-backed mirror standing on the top.
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Shaker peg rail bench
A Shaker-style entry settle: a barn-red pine bench with three boot cubbies under a solid cherry seat, and cherry posts rising behind it to carry a backrest rail, a row of six turned cherry pegs and a hat shelf on top.
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Oak slat drop-zone wall
A hallway landing strip in oiled red oak: a slatted wall over a charcoal backer with five brass hooks, a floating two-drawer drop zone for keys and post that glows warm underneath, a low two-tier shoe shelf on the floor and a hat shelf up top.
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Moss batten hall with over-door library
A narrow hall turned into a library without losing a millimetre of its width: moss-green board-and-batten wraps the doorway, its head casing runs on as a rail along the whole wall, and on that rail a 200mm oiled oak shelf carries a three-metre row of books right over the door, held on six cove-cut oak corbels. Below 2.1m nothing but the plinth blocks stands more than 34mm off the wall, and the 12mm MDF lining under it all takes knocks from bags and bikes.
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Juniper entry wall with bench and mirror
A whole entry in 430mm of depth, built as one juniper-green panelled wall: four shoe cubbies under an oiled oak bench, a tall mirror framed into the panelling at its centre for the last look on the way out, oak hook rails with brass double hooks either side, and a hat shelf on cove-cut corbels over the lot. Coats, shoes, keys and the mirror all happen in the two steps by the door.
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Green mudroom pet station
A mudroom wall for the dog, in deep forest green with a walnut counter: a built-in feeding nook with two steel bowls at the dog's height, a deep drawer for kibble above it, a tall cupboard for the mop and broom, a lead rail with five black hooks and an open walnut shelf.
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Walnut slatted shoe bench
A slatted entry bench only 300mm deep, so it fits a hallway that is barely wider than the front door swing: a seat for pulling boots on over two airy racks that hold eight pairs of shoes and let them dry. Oiled walnut slats are tenoned into arched end boards, and a middle partition keeps the seat stiff enough for two adults.
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Cherry three-drawer hall console
A narrow hall console in oiled cherry, only 330mm deep: a row of three drawers with brass knobs on slender tapered legs, and a slatted shelf low between them for a basket or a pair of boots. The cherry deepens to a warm red-brown over the years.
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Oak hall console
A slim white oak console for a hallway: long tapered legs, light aprons, and a top just deep enough for keys and a lamp. Fix it to the wall - it is tall for its depth.
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Mustard arched lift-lid hall bench
A hall bench for an entry with no room for a cupboard, only 360mm deep: its oiled oak seat lifts on soft-close stays to a box for hats, gloves and the dog lead, and an arched mustard backboard rises behind it with four brass hooks on an oak rail. Seat, storage and coat rack in 900mm of wall, fixed at the top so it never tips.
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Slate reeded hall wainscot with radiator cover
A hall radiator that disappears into the panelling: slate-green reeded wainscot to 1m either side, and between them a cover with a grille of rounded slats that lets the heat out, under a deep oiled oak shelf that stops short of the wall so warm air rises up the slot behind it. The shelf becomes the hall's landing spot for keys, post and a lamp, and the cover lifts off in one piece to bleed the radiator.
Bathroom & laundry
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Lichen Shaker wainscot with peg rail
Shaker wainscot for a bathroom: lichen-green stiles and a deep bottom rail on a moisture-resistant MDF ground, topped at 1.24m by a solid peg rail with eleven turned maple pegs and an oiled maple cap shelf. Towels, a robe and a laundry bag hang off the floor and dry in the air, the cap holds soap and a candle, and the painted panelling shrugs off splashes that would spoil plaster.
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Pink laundry wall with folding counter
A whole laundry wall in dusty plaster pink: an oiled white oak folding counter over a washer and dryer, a pistachio-green zellige splashback, three wall cupboards with a glass one in the middle, a solid brass rod beneath them for drip-dry shirts, a tall cupboard for the ironing board and a drawer stack for the soap.
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Ochre three-bin laundry sorter
A counter-height laundry sorter painted deep ochre: three open bays, each with a canvas hamper on a pull-out frame, under a thick hard maple butcher-block top for folding, with a little brass label holder over each bay.
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Fluted oak floating double vanity
A wall-hung double vanity in white oak with four reeded doors on push-to-open hinges, two round matt-white vessel basins, wall-mounted brass taps and pill-shaped mirrors on a moss-green zellige splashback, and a warm light glowing on the floor beneath it.
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Oak over-toilet cabinet
A white oak wall cabinet for the dead wall above the cistern, only 204mm deep so knees and heads clear it: a pair of Shaker doors with brass knobs over two shelves for bottles and spare towels, an open cubby below for toilet rolls and a candle, and a brass towel rail on the end. It hangs on a French cleat and gives a tiny bathroom the storage of a vanity it has no floor for.
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Mauve linen tower
A tall, slender linen press painted a dusky heather mauve: two drawers in a deeper base with a ledge on top, open shelves for rolled towels, a glass-fronted cupboard above for linens and bottles, nickel pulls and a cove crown, like a piece of old bathroom furniture.
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Maple bathroom ladder etagere
A light, airy bathroom etagere in hard maple: front rails lean in like a ladder to meet upright back posts, so its three shelves grow shallower as they rise, with two round towel rungs at the top and a water-resistant satin finish.
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Maple fold-down drying rack
A wall drying rack that folds up to just 60mm deep: eleven maple dowels on a frame that drops down level on two brass chains to dry a whole wash, then lifts back inside its warm-white frame and clicks shut on a magnet. A maple shelf on top holds the pegs and the detergent, and three pegs on the top rail take hangers, so it replaces a floor-standing airer that never had anywhere to live.
Accent walls
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Denim board-and-batten book wall
A grid board-and-batten wall in denim blue, 1.5m high, whose mid and top rails each carry a lipped book ledge: almost 7 metres of face-out shelf at a five-year-old's reach and a parent's, standing only 140mm off the wall so it takes no floor. The MDF skin and battens below take the scuffs a kids' room hands out, and wipe clean.
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Walnut reeded reading wall
A floor-to-ceiling panel of half-round black walnut reeds, 1.5m wide, that turns one end of a study into a reading corner: a floating walnut book shelf over the chair, a thick little shelf at armrest height that does the job of a side table, and a brass swing-arm light screwed through the reeds, all standing on a solid walnut plinth. Nothing stands on the floor but the chair, so the corner works in a room too small for a side table and a floor lamp.
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Clay-pink diamond lattice nursery wall
A nursery wainscot of diamond lattice: 44mm poplar strips run on the diagonal and half-lapped where they cross, framed by a deep bottom rail, end stiles and a top rail, everything in soft clay pink to 1.3m. The lipped cap ledge on top sits above a toddler's reach, so the baby monitor, night light and favourite books live there instead of on a side table, and the painted MDF below wipes clean.
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Cornflower stair-landing gallery wall
A stair-landing wall that becomes the family photo gallery: cornflower-blue shiplap to dado height under an oiled oak cap, and above it three oak standards carrying three lipped picture ledges and a top rail. Frames lean on the ledges, so the gallery can be rearranged every school year without a single new nail hole, and nothing stands more than 95mm into a tight landing.
Workshop & garage
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Laminated maple workbench
A heavy 1950mm workbench with a 75mm top laminated from hard maple strips on edge, split by a sunken tool tray, on laminated legs with stretchers tenoned into them. A quick-release vise with a maple chop sits over a bank of three drawers, with brass bench dogs and a deep plywood shelf below.
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Flip-top planer and spindle sander cart
One mustard-yellow cart for two benchtop machines: the planer bolts to one face of a pivoting platform and the spindle sander hangs upside down on the other, so pulling two indexing pins and swinging the top over swaps them in seconds. It parks in a 760 x 610mm footprint, with two deep drawers for knives, sleeves and drums underneath.
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Mobile mitre saw station
A rolling mitre saw station painted deep navy: a drawer bank and a cupboard either side of a dropped saw bay with its own cupboard below, so the saw table sits dead level with birch work surfaces. Folding wings open it out to 2.9m, with maple fences, stop blocks and measuring tapes in line with the saw fence.
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Swing-arm planer workbench
An oiled white oak and maple workbench whose planer lives on a parallelogram of maple arms: swung up, its bed sits dead level with the benchtop so the whole 1.8m bench becomes the infeed table; swung down, it tucks under the right-hand end and the top is clear again. A bottle-green drawer bank fills the left bay.
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French cleat tool wall
A full wall of birch French cleats on a deep green backer, every holder movable: a shaker-door tool cupboard, maple chisel and screwdriver racks, a saw till, a plane shelf, a drill shelf, a hammer rack, a clamp rail, a peg board for squares and levels, and a low platform on the floor for power tool cases.
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Router table cabinet with dust bin
A lichen-green rolling router table whose router hangs in its own closed bay, ported at the back, so the chips that fall through the plate go to the collector and not the floor; a full-width bin drawer below catches the rest. Five maple drawers hold the bits, and the maple fence carries its own hood right at the cutter.
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Lumber and sheet goods rack
A wall rack that keeps a whole timber pile in 520mm of floor: full sheets stand on edge on a raised deck behind a lift-off rail, long boards rest on twelve tenoned pine cantilever arms with dowel stops, and a brick red offcut cart with a sloped top rolls out beside it.
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Drill press station with swing-out wings
A safety-orange rolling stand that puts a benchtop drill press at a comfortable height over five bit drawers and a cupboard. Maple wings fold down flat against its sides and come up on swing-out arms, turning a 700mm stand into a 1.5m surface for long rails and panels.
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Oxblood garage cabinets
A 3.6m wall of garage cabinets in deep oxblood with shaker doors and satin nickel bar pulls: two tall cupboards frame a run of drawers and cupboards under a 40mm oiled maple counter, with a cream pegboard backsplash and lit wall cupboards above.
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Outfeed and assembly table with clamp racks
A 1.8 x 1.1m outfeed and assembly table set level with the saw, whose deep overhangs earn their keep: fourteen parallel clamps hang through slotted maple rails under the long sides and ten F-clamps under the ends, every clamp within reach of the glue-up on top. A graphite core holds jigs on open shelves on one face and eight drawers on the other.
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Fold-down garage workbench
For a one-car garage: a 1.5m oak-edged worktop hinged to a ledger on two wall standards, standing on a fold-down leg frame when you need it and swinging up flat against the shallow pegboard cabinet above when the car comes home, so the whole workshop closes to 260mm off the wall. The pale sky-blue underside becomes the cabinet front.
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Rolling lumber and offcut cart
All the timber in a small shop on one 1.5 x 0.76m footprint: full sheets stand on their long edge in two slots behind the spine, long boards rest on twelve steel-cored maple arms in front, and the offcuts that usually pile up in corners drop into four bins below. It rolls out of the way when the car needs the space.
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Rolling clamp rack
Forty clamps on 0.4m² of floor, rolled to wherever the glue-up is: parallel clamps hang through a slotted maple rail, F-clamps from a lower one, pipe clamps stand in a trough at the back and spring clamps ride on pegs at the ends, with a glue tray along the top. Birch ply and oiled maple, nothing to paint.
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Cherry sharpening station
Everything for sharp tools in a 900mm cherry cabinet: a lift-out stone pond sunk in the top with a maple bridge for three waterstones, and a slow-speed grinder that lives in a slot under the top and runs out on full-extension slides when it is needed, then disappears so the mess stays in one place.
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Walnut hand-tool armoire
A walnut tool armoire for a hand-tool shop: eight graduated drawers for planes and boxes below, and above, a shallow case whose deep doors are boxes themselves, lined with French cleats so squares, gauges, drivers and hammers hang on the doors and saws, planes and chisels behind them. Every holder lifts off and moves; the whole kit stands in a metre of wall.
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Mobile table saw base with outfeed
A petrol-blue rolling base that sinks a jobsite saw into a well so its table is dead flush with an oak-edged wing, with fence rails run across the wing for 900mm rips. A leaf folds up behind on locking brackets as outfeed and drops flat when it parks; the dust bin drawer sits right under the blade and four drawers hold blades and jigs.
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Garage bike and garden wall
Two bikes, the long-handled garden tools, boots and helmets off the garage floor and onto 2.4m of dove-grey wall: bikes hang by the front wheel with their rear tyres resting on an oak bumper strip so the paint stays clean, spades and rakes stand head-up through a slotted oak rail, and a slatted boot bench sits under a helmet shelf.
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Over-bonnet garage storage loft
The unused space above the car bonnet, put to work: a sealed pine loft on four doubled posts with a plywood deck at 2.1m for bulky things, and underneath it five lidded totes that hang by their rims between plywood runners and slide out like drawers. The car noses in underneath; nothing lives on the floor.
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Apartment fold-away workbench
A white oak hutch for a flat with no workshop: closed, it is a bookcase over a chest of drawers; fold the worktop down onto its two maple lopers and it opens into an 840mm-deep bench with a face vise, a terracotta tool wall, chisels and a saw at hand, and four drawers of planes and boxes below.
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Dust collector closet
A pale mint MDF closet that swallows the loudest, ugliest thing in the shop: the canister collector stands on its bin dolly inside a felt-lined bay, its exhaust leaving through a louvred top section of the door, and rolls out to be emptied. A slim cupboard beside it keeps hoses, blast gates and spare filters, all in one metre of wall.
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Finishing cart with pull-out drying racks
A slate-green rolling finishing cart for small shops where wet parts end up all over the bench: eight maple racks slide out on runners, each with four drying pins, so a whole kitchen of doors dries in 0.43m² of floor and rolls away from the dust. A cupboard below holds the tins and brushes, a lipped top keeps the open can in place.
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Pull-out pegboard tower
An ink-black tower that holds four pegboards side by side like an archive: each slides out on a top-mounted slide with tools hung on both faces, so 900mm of wall carries what would take four metres of open pegboard, and closed it is a clean cabinet of tall maple-pulled fronts with nothing to dust.
Outdoor
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Perch-edge oak raised bed
A 2m oiled white oak raised bed with a 180mm cap wide enough to sit on all round, and a deeper slatted bench on knee brackets along the front: you garden sitting down at 463mm instead of kneeling, and every part of the 1m-wide bed is in reach from one side or the other.
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Chalk white trellis planter
A 1m planter box on short feet with its back posts carried up to 1.8m as a painted trellis: a climber screens the balcony from the neighbours in just 420mm of depth, and the slatted floor on cleats drains so the roots never sit in water.
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Denim blue herb wall
Four galvanised-lined herb troughs stepped up a slatted backboard that hangs on a French cleat by the kitchen door: a whole herb garden in 176mm of wall depth and 674mm of width, hung at a height where nobody bends to the bottom trough, with each liner lifting out to replant or overwinter indoors.
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Raked oak lounge chair
A low slatted lounge chair in oiled white oak: the seat rakes back 50mm and the slatted back leans at about 19 degrees on bolted rails, with broad 95mm arms for a glass or a book - the deep, lie-back sit of a deck chair on a frame that stays out all summer and needs no cushion.
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Oak potting bench
An oiled white oak potting bench with a slatted top that lets soil fall through, a galvanised soil tub sunk flush beside it, a slatted shelf below for pots and compost, and a slatted back with tool hooks, a lipped pot shelf and an arched crest rail.
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Slate deck box bench
A 1.3m storage bench painted deep slate blue-green: two lids lift on strap hinges to a ventilated, slatted box that keeps seat cushions, throws and the parasol cover dry right under where you sit, and the backrest frame doubles as the stop each lid rests against when open.
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Grey hose and tool station
Everything that clutters the outside tap in one 560mm strip of wall: a 30m hose coils on a drum of oak dowels behind a round cheek, three pairs of oak pegs hold the rake, spade and hoe, a lipped shelf keeps gloves and twine dry under a little pent roof, and the ledge at the foot takes the watering can and boots.
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Oak garden bench
A three-seat garden bench in oiled white oak, the outdoor oak boat builders use: back legs raked so it leans you back, nineteen slim spindles tenoned between softly rounded rails, broad arms over square front legs, and five generous seat slats on hidden cleats.
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Barn red fold-down bar
A 900mm garden bar cabinet only 220mm deep: its upper door folds down on stainless stays into a 425mm-deep counter at a standing 1050mm, opening onto a cream-painted glass shelf and bottle space, with board-and-batten cupboards below for the cooler and an open shelf on top for plants.
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Stepped plant stand
A three-tier stepped plant stand in exterior-painted olive green, each slatted tier 320mm higher and 280mm further back so every pot gets the light. Slim posts in three stepped frames stop under the tier they carry, with tenoned bearers, arched front aprons stiffening the slats and low stretchers tying each frame.
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Celadon balcony planter table
A 1m planter on runner feet with a drop leaf at its front rim: swing out the two fly brackets and the leaf rises into a 480mm-deep table at 740mm for coffee for two, the planting standing up behind it like a hedge, then folds flat down the planter face so a narrow balcony gets its floor back - and the compost in the box is the ballast that keeps it steady.
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Oak outdoor bar cart
A white oak serving cart for the terrace: a 30mm board top, two slatted shelves that drain and dry, a gallery rail to keep bottles on, big rubber wheels at one end and a stainless towel rail at the other that doubles as the handle.
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Oak modular patio sofa
A three-seat outdoor sofa in oiled white oak built as three 740mm modules - two with arms, one without - clipped together under the seat: unclip them for two armchairs and a bench, or swing one round into a corner, and the slatted decks drain so the quick-dry cushions are all that come in when it rains.
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Sandstone potting shed cabinet
A garden shed shrunk to a 1.2m x 600mm cabinet for a patio with no room for a shed: ledged-and-braced doors under a corrugated pent roof, a tall bay with hooks for rakes, spades and the broom, three shelves for pots, seed trays and compost bags, and a floor raised on bearers so nothing sits in the wet.
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Oak bird feeding station
A freestanding white oak bird table on crossed, braced feet: a slatted feeding tray at 1.5m under a verdigris gable roof that keeps the seed dry, two arms for hanging feeders, and a dome baffle half way up the laminated post so squirrels never reach the table - it stands on a lawn or a terrace, no digging.
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Black timber log store
A 1.8m log store in black-stained timber: laminated posts in three frames under a raked roof of boards capped with a matt black standing-seam sheet, spaced cladding on the ends and back so the wind dries the logs, a slatted floor held off the ground and a kindling shelf in one bay.
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Oak garden shower corner
A corner outdoor shower in oiled white oak: two 2.1m slatted screens on three posts give privacy on the open side and keep the spray off the house wall, a duckboard floor drains straight through to the gravel, and a slatted bench, soap ledge and robe hooks mean you can sit to rinse feet and hang a towel in a 1.2 x 1m footprint.
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Black-green twin compost bays
Two 900mm compost bays side by side under hinged lids that keep the rain off and the heat in: the front boards drop into guide channels and lift out one at a time, so you turn this year's heap into the next bay and shovel the finished compost out at ground level instead of over the top.
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Oak arched garden gateway
A white oak arch for the end of a path: two trellised sides 520mm deep on four bolt-down posts, sawn arched beams carrying seven purlins for a rose or a clematis to cross over, and a picket gate with a softly arched top that keeps a dog in without walling the garden off - the frame becomes a room you walk through.
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Anthracite twin bin store
A store for two 240-litre wheelie bins in anthracite-painted boards: each bay has a lid that lifts to drop a bag in without opening the doors, ledged doors that swing wide to wheel the bin out on collection day, and a fixed rear deck carrying a planting trough, so the front of the house sees thyme and sedum instead of bins.
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Oak pergola daybed
A 2.1m daybed in oiled white oak with its own pergola: four posts carry a slatted bed for a full-size outdoor mattress, a low back and end rails to lean on, and knee-braced beams and rafters overhead that filter the sun and take a canvas or a climbing vine - a shaded room to nap in on a terrace with no tree.
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