At Straker Kitchens we love trees and it’s a privilege to be working daily with their gifts, making bespoke wooden kitchens and furniture.  We take great care in specifying suitable types of wood, before selecting boards at the mill, and from them the individual components for each...

You know it’s time for a new kitchen; perhaps you are renovating a house, building a new home, or it’s simply time to replace your old, worn-out kitchen with something of quality that is going to last. This time you want something that suits you perfectly and respects the planet, so that every...

Our client, with her interior designer Joanna Bamford, has been carefully and comprehensively renovating this beautiful, Welsh Marches (Y Mers) farmhouse, going to such painstaking lengths as quarrying their own stone for walls, flags, and roof tiles. The oldest part of the house dates back to at...

Just as the story of this Welsh Marches farmhouse is one of centuries, the old mixing with the new, so is that of the furniture.The frame and panel construction for this hardworking utility room dates back to the middle of the last millennium, but remains entirely relevant today. Similarly, the...

This children's bedroom was built with high level cubbyholes, for occasional access. We created the cupboard doors and frames to reflect the traditional furniture that we made for other rooms in this historic farmhouse renovation. Hand-planed, quarter-sawn English oak, with hand-worked details. The...