A bench by the dyke, and a workshop that grew around it.
Fenwold began in 2009 with garden benches made from the oak of a fallen barn on the edge of the Lincolnshire fens. People kept asking whether the same hands could build a kitchen, and in 2013 the first one went out on a borrowed trailer.
Everything is still designed and finished in the workshop on Saltmere Lane. Kitchens are made to order and fitted by our own teams; furniture is delivered by our own drivers and placed in the room.
Two rules have not changed: every piece of furniture is guaranteed for twenty-five years, and the price is the price all year. There are nine showrooms, each laid out as a house rather than a shop floor.
- 2009
- First bench, Fenwold
- 2013
- First kitchen
- 9
- Showrooms across England
- 25 years
- Guarantee on furniture
- 28
- Paint colours, mixed in the workshop
- 10 weeks
- Drawings to fitted kitchen
Four things we will not change.
A workshop that guarantees furniture for twenty-five years has to make it a particular way. These are the four rules the benches in Fenwold work to.
Twenty-five years
Every piece of furniture is guaranteed for a quarter of a century. If a joint goes or a drawer sticks, we come and fix it.
One price all year
No countdown clocks and no waiting for the right week. The price in January is the price in June.
Natural materials
Solid oak, tulipwood and ash; linen and wool; water-based paint. Nothing that pretends to be something else.
Our own workshop
Designed and finished by hand in Fenwold, fitted by our own teams. Nobody in between.