Welcome to our blog, where we will share our latest projects, as well as handy tips and tricks to help you with your projects.
Our business values are rooted in local, sustainable, high quality, and we feel lucky to be part of the vibrant rural community in and around the village of Alyth in Perthshire where we live and work.
The products that come out of Highwood Furniture are born out of a love for the craft and the wood that we create them from. An unanticipated pleasure that we discovered when we started taking our products out to local markets in 2023 was the many conversations we have had with local woodworkers and enthusiasts from every level. Starting this blog we hope will offer a way to continue that throughout the year.
There is no doubt that some of the items we produce could not happen without the many hours of practice, study, trial, error, learning, and tears that have gone before we even start planning. However, there are some simple hints and tips that are at the core of everything, and we love to share these where we can. We also love to share some of the techniques and materials that go into some of our more complex projects. We don’t claim to be anywhere close to knowing all there is to know. We are learning all the time, and the nature of what we do means that we are constantly developing and changing how we work to embrace and explore new design and construction possibilities.
We invite you to join us on our journey. Learning comes from every question we are asked, as well as from shared experience or design/technical ideas. We know that those of you who love the products that we make are people who understand and are interested in quality and craftmanship. Which gives us very little place to hide! So it is good for us that we want to share it with you. If our clients and community aren’t part of the process that is involved in making our furniture then we aren’t making it in the way that we aspire to.
