Residential Projects

Here is the finished product of Lyn’s fully restored solid silky oak “special service” silverware and cutlery chest of drawers.

Annie’s beach house pew had been failing for some time. Split, gone almost black and looking unloved. This pew is obviously more than 100 years old based on the construction style, lack of any steel hardware (nails etc) and timber quality. Now it has a new lease on life once […]

Neville just keeps coming back. This is our third project with Neville and his good wife. We were asked to ‘leave the chairs as they are’ but just replace the seat bases as they had both failed. A simple job but a fine finish just the same.

From this to this!

What a lovely journey. Stan simply dropped in (in between deliveries), gave us his mum’s old pine dresser and asked us to make it nice again. No expense spared! It has now become a masterpiece of simplicity. All the drawers run like they’re on glides, all the locks work and […]

Rod and Linda were in a quandary! “Do we try and repair these old chairs or do we just go out and purchase new?”. Well, considering the chairs have been around for so long and they’re still worth restoring, let’s do this right!: 1/. Keep the sentiment alive since they’ve […]

Terry’s solid silky oak bed is ready to head back home.

Updated: August 17, 2016 Rob came to us with a monster 2200 mm X 2200 mm dining table, custom made in a mix of northern and southern Qld silky oak. Now that life has changed, Rob wanted to keep the table but make it smaller and finer. Here’s what we […]

Cathy has 6 Qld maple dining chairs. We’re restoring all 6 but 2 have broken back rests, so these are being hand crafted and replaced. Once off the operating table, you won’t even see the ‘scars’!