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How to Fit Your Table Legs — A Step-by-Step Guide

How to Fit Your Table Legs — A Step-by-Step Guide

Your legs arrive detached, with the holes already drilled in both the legs and the top. Richard talks through fitting them — around ten minutes, and no measuring or marking...

How to Fit Your Table Legs — A Step-by-Step Guide

Your legs arrive detached, with the holes already drilled in both the legs and the top. Richard talks through fitting them — around ten minutes, and no measuring or marking...

What to Expect When Your Furniture Order Arrives

What to Expect When Your Furniture Order Arrives

Two parcels, two different days, and nothing has gone wrong. Richard explains how a South Downs order travels, why the tops and the steel legs arrive separately, and what to...

What to Expect When Your Furniture Order Arrives

Two parcels, two different days, and nothing has gone wrong. Richard explains how a South Downs order travels, why the tops and the steel legs arrive separately, and what to...

Why You Can't Tell Our Wax Colour From the Photos?

Why You Can't Tell Our Wax Colour From the Photos?

A wax finish is translucent, so you're seeing the pine as much as the colour. Then the light, the camera and your screen each have their say. Why our own...

Why You Can't Tell Our Wax Colour From the Photos?

A wax finish is translucent, so you're seeing the pine as much as the colour. Then the light, the camera and your screen each have their say. Why our own...

What Size Dining Table Do You Need? A Sussex Maker's Guide for 4, 6 and 8 (in cm)

What Size Dining Table Do You Need? A Sussex Ma...

Four people want a table under 140cm. Six want 140–160cm at 88cm wide. Eight want over 160cm. Here's why those numbers are shorter than everything else you'll read, and how...

What Size Dining Table Do You Need? A Sussex Ma...

Four people want a table under 140cm. Six want 140–160cm at 88cm wide. Eight want over 160cm. Here's why those numbers are shorter than everything else you'll read, and how...

What Size Bench Fits Under Your Dining Table? A Sussex Maker's Guide (in cm)

What Size Bench Fits Under Your Dining Table? A...

The answer is 20cm shorter than your table, unless it's a spider frame, in which case a full-length bench tucks straight under. Here's why, in centimeters, from the workshop that...

What Size Bench Fits Under Your Dining Table? A...

The answer is 20cm shorter than your table, unless it's a spider frame, in which case a full-length bench tucks straight under. Here's why, in centimeters, from the workshop that...