We didn’t plan on buying a farm; in a way it is as if the farm selected us.  It’s an interesting story how it came about and if one day we should meet, be sure to ask me.  We moved here from a three bedroom apartment in Brisbane with no lawnmower, no spade and no idea what we had got ourselves into.  But a few years on and the land has come to be like an old friend. 

We knew we wanted dogs, chooks, goats and cows so I started out building a dog kennel, a chook house and a goat tree house. 

I needed a place to sit so I built a bench or two . . .

I knew then that those woodworking classes from my childhood had stuck and I began to think about what else I could do.

What you see on these pages is what I have been able to create using salvaged, found and, occasionally, new timbers. 

Using recycled timbers for the creation of furniture benefits our environment in so many ways. A lot of timber pulled off old buildings or from old furniture ends up in landfill, along with all the other rubbish which ends up as landfill, and increases the amount of land dedicated to nothing but quietly rotting, methane producing waste. Understandably, there will always be a demand for timber furniture and if we don’t recycle, then we need to cut down more and more trees.

Logging, hauling, milling, drying and hauling again all require non-renewable resources whereas recycling timber requires nothing much at all to reassemble into furniture - mostly thought and sweat which are  both renewable.

Most of what I do is custom make furniture to particular specifications.  If you don’t see what you want in these pages contact me to see what may be possible.