Bring your dream to life
The process of commissioning a piece of furniture from Ochre & Wood is an exciting journey during which we will help you transform your initial ideas into a beautiful design and ultimately into your special piece of furniture. Whether you have a very clear idea of what you want, or just some outline concepts, part of our service is to help you bring your project to life.
We like working face to face as much as possible. When you decide to commission a piece, we will arrange meetings firstly to discuss your ideas and then to go through our sketch designs and a quotation for your approval. Before commencing work, we ask for a deposit, normally 50% of the agreed price, with the balance being payable on delivery. For a larger project, we may agree stage payments with you to spread the cost over the build period.
Please get in touch to discuss your ideas.
CREATION
How we make things
Many years ago, furniture and cabinet makers would toil expertly for hours, days and weeks using a wide range of purpose made hand tools. Modern times mean we have machines available to speed up the process. Relying wholly on machines, however, can leave furniture feeling a bit industrial and lifeless. We believe a balance between the old and new ways is the best route to creating furniture which really looks and feels hand-made yet can be completed within a reasonable timeframe and cost.
SUSTAINABILITY
We like to use sustainable Scottish hardwoods
Sustainability is important to us and, we believe, to our clients so we will look for properly and ethically managed sources when buying our wood.
As an important part of this ethos, we prefer to work with Scottish woods which, apart from being beautiful, incur much lower ‘wood miles’ as a result of being locally sourced. Sometimes, this might include a ‘one-off’ where a perfectly good tree has fallen down, e.g. in a storm!
These woods include Oak, Sycamore, Elm, Ash, Beech and many others which, visually, are full of character and can be formed into highly decorative pieces. Where requested, we can look further afield to source more exotic timbers, again from reputable sources.