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Compost Toilet for Scottish Waterways

12th February 2013 Write Comment

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We are pleased to show you a sneak preview of our latest designed compost toilet that has just been delivered to Scottish Waterways.
This double composting toilet unit joins together two of our most popular products into a single building, with one standard size and one disabled access compost toilet side by side. The version featured in these pictures was commissioned by Scottish Waterways for sites on two beautiful lochs up in the Scottish Highlands but could also be used a allotment compost toilet. Watch this space for more photos.

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Tel – 077 594 39658

 

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Have a look at more of out composting toilets here.

Driftwood Four Poster Tree Bed

4th December 2012 Write Comment

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Storytelling Stools for Schools

3rd October 2012 Write Comment

We must have built 300 storytelling chairs for schools to date and we’ve decided that it seems unfair that only the teachers sit comfortably. So to add to our storytelling chair range we now have storytelling stools for kids too….
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Lastest Sun Lounger Chairs

3rd October 2012 Write Comment

We have just completed the latest and in our range of designer furniture : The Rustic Sun Lounger. Based on the Adirondack chair and made from reclaimed fence posts and old school science desks, this sun chair is the most comfortable chair we have designed to date.

 

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Compost toilet for woodland

16th September 2012 Write Comment

We have just come back from delivering another composting toilet for Clive and Victoria’s wood in Welshpool. They own a bog and woodland and have a need for a discreet compost toilet for when they camp over. Hopefully the water buffalo that graze the land will learn to put the seat down.

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New Dining Room Table

11th September 2012 Write Comment

We haven’t posted any news on our blog for ages, but no news is good news… We’ve just been so busy with orders, which is great.

 

Here are a few pics of a new dining table that went out last week. It’s made with some locally sourced London Plane wood which has the beautiful dark colour you can see and the lovely patterning.
We bought the wood from a local manor where they have been saving up all the timber from their fallen trees over the past 40 years and there is a lot of wood there! We’re definitely going back for some more London Plane as we’re sure this table is going to be very popular.

 

The table was sent out with a set of six matching dining room chairs, but would also work well with a set of benches.
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Ornate Carved Storytellers Chairs

21st May 2012 Write Comment

We have just completed this commission of two carved storytelling chairs for Norbury School in Harrow as part of the Queens jubilee celebrations. These storytellers chairs are fit for a queen, or at least some lucky princess.

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See more storytellers chairs here

A Bog Standard Compost Toilet goes to Nannerth Fawr Farm, Rhayader

21st February 2012 Write Comment

We’ve just come back from delivering another Bog Standard compost toilet for a campsite in Rhayader, Mid Wales. Usually the toilets arrive on a pallet, but because this campsite is only an hour’s drive away we decided to make a day of it. Alison and Andre Gallagher are setting up a wild camping area on their farm and ordered one of our compost toilets for use in their beautiful field. Nannerth Farm offers a whole range of tourist accommodation, from holiday cottages, to wild camping to an original gypsy wagon trailer. Our bow top toilet couldn’t have gone to a better home!
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Rustic Oak Driftwood Bed

15th January 2012 Write Comment

It’s been a long time since the last post, busy busy busy, and yes New Years and Christmas! Here is the latest oak driftwood bed for a local couple Alma and John. They have just collected it and are thrilled with it.

“You read my mind, it’s exactly what I wanted”

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See more rustic oak beds here.

Compost toilet delivery to Racquety Lodge Campsite

21st November 2011 Write Comment

We are pleased to have just returned from Hay-on-Wye where we have delivered this compost toilet to the lovely owners of Racquety Lodge. Thank you for showing us around your lovely farm and for ordering another of our compost toilets.

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‘We love our Free Range Loo. In fact visitors are very attracted to it! They long to mount the steps and sit in splendid isolation contemplating their next move…. well the loo works really well and is a pleasure to have in the garden. A worthwhile investment.’

Ros and Geoff Garratt, Racquets Farm, Hay-on-Wye, Powys.

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Driftwood collecting for making driftwood beds.

16th November 2011 Write Comment

Always a good thing to stock up on driftwood while it is still lovely to go outside….can anybody tell me if I found a coconut in Wales…?

thanks to Giles for bringing Catrina his boat to sail back some of this lovely driftwood.

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Latest Driftwood Bed

4th November 2011 Write Comment

Just a quick one showing off the latest driftwood bed we have completed.
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New Gypsy Caravan Inspired Compost Toilet

27th October 2011 Write Comment

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This compost toilet is so fresh off the workshop floor it still smells of cedar wood. I’m so happy to finally design a toilet that makes pooing fashionable.
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Thanks for Ash, Franta, Ben and Ossian for all your help. Click here to see more about this compost toilet.

Driftwood Storytelling Chair

28th September 2011 Write Comment

Good-bye to this lovely storytelling chair going all the way to Bristol. Here is the quote from Amanda

“The storytelling chair is superb.  It was well worth the wait.
You have made a brilliant job of it and I will enjoy it in the years to come.”
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More storytelling chairs here

Oak Storytellers Bench for Outdoor School Playground

11th September 2011 Write Comment

Here are some photos of a Storytellers Bench we made for Croft Church of England Primary School. It  is one of the biggest we’ve made which is the main reason why it never got photographed.

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Driftwood Bed for Simbad the Sailor or Robinson Crusoe

28th August 2011 Write Comment

Here is the driftwood bed created to go with the driftwood storytelling chair. Now named “The Robinson Crusoe bed”….Please edit out the “behind the scenes” parts in your mind…

Good-bye Slate Dining Room Table and Chairs

22nd August 2011 Write Comment

We are happy to bid farewell to this dining room table set bound for it’s new home in Essex….Bon-Voyage

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New Arrival

17th August 2011 Write Comment

Ok if you have not received your furniture this week then here is my excuse….A new baby girl, my greatest work so far!!! Still no name yet but we still have 6 weeks to go.
Thanks for all the lovely messages and I promise to get back to the furniture soon.
Love from Paul
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Furniture for Film

15th July 2011 Write Comment

We’ve just finished building this solid driftwood chair for a film being made in Malta about Sinbad the Sailor.

The look is ‘fresh from the sea’, retaining all the character and charm of the driftwood that was collected from the very shores where these pictures were taken.

Driftwood is such a wonderful resource to build with, as it involves lots of sailing on my part to hunt it out …!

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Il était une fois… (Once upon a time…)

14th July 2011 Write Comment

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Our first ‘Chaise de Conte’ has been delivered to a French school in the Ariège. The headmaster of the school in the mountains of the south of France found our storytelling chair using google and got in touch. Well, luckily my wife speaks good French, so she was able to understand what a Chaise de Conte means and we were able to send their story tellers chair off over the channel to be enjoyed by our first group of French children. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a new relationship with French schools. I like the sound of it: Vive La Chaise de Conte!