Every now and again we get some lovely message from somebody who we've inspired. Here is one from Chris a photographer who came and did our course last year and has started making rustic furniture. Checkout the pictures below.
" Hey, I don't suppose you will remember me, I came on a rustic furniture course about this time last year, my job was a photographer and I came hoping to learn a few tricks on how to make your funky stuff. Well I though I would drop you a quick e-mail just to say thanks you and SUCCESS. Soon after I returned home I was told about a Permaculture site in Burnley Lancashire near where I live called Offshoots (www.offshoots.org.uk) This place is all about sustainable and eco projects, I showed the manager a chair I had made with you. I couldn't believe my luck when he invited me to start making furniture onsite inside a yurt (which are also made there) Prince Charles came to see us and then we
After spending ten years developing an exciting and successful online rustic furniture business, we are looking to expand our range and are offering other furniture makers and crafts people a successful internet platform from which to sell their wares. It will be important that you have the same eco-idealogical principals as us and that your work is of a high calibre. If this sounds like you, then send us an email with some pictures and a brief description of your work and we'll get back to you soon. Email:
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Tim goes back to Africa
We're sad to see our brother Tim heading off back to South Africa today. We'll miss you Tim but we will catch up with you in the sun one day.
We're Expanding Our Brand...
Come peep into our extended range of Avante-Garde Furniture at Free Range Designs
"Festival of the Shire" A celebration of all things Tolkien inspired, comes to Wales
August 13th-15th, 2010 at Pafiliwn Bont, Pontrhydfendigiad, Ystrad Meurig, Ceredigoin, SY25 6BB, Wales. The United Kingdom is to host an exciting new international festival next year. Festival in the Shire is a conference, exhibition and fair celebrating themes inspired by the author J.R.R. Tolkien. Pictures above show some of the art to be on exhibit at the collectors expo.
Here is our long awaited 2010 catalogue of furniture....it's taken 10 years to get this to you...enjoy ;) Download the 2010 pdf version here.
Oak panneled rustic office desk....
We're looking for new business partners
Are you interested in building furniture in an ecological way...?
Do you want a change in lifestyle...?
We are looking for people to help continue our creative business.
We've been making furniture in this country since 2002. In this time we have learned a lot! Before that we were making furniture in South Africa for seven years. It's now time for some of us to go back to South Africa and back to making furniture in the sun.
Half of us will stay behind and continue the mission of making furniture in the style of the wild using recycled materials and innovative designs. We are looking to recruit new partners to continue what has proven to be a very successfull business.
Team Sylvan -Nick, Dianne, Tim, Ash, Paul, Greeba and Rory
Wooden Bar Counter for Glenuig Inn
For the past 2 weeks we've been working on a bar for Steve from the Glenuig Inn in Scotland. After many long nights we're happy to say it is out the way and we can have our workshop floor space back. We look forward to going up to visit it and have a pint pulled over this lushious yew counter. .
Rustic fitted country kitchen with slate counter & wood cupboards
We have been working on a fitted counrty kitchen for Graeme and Leslie that run Shelters Unlimited here in Wales.
The work is ongoing and we'll be adding images of the progress of this rustic designer kitchen.
So far we have installed the belfast sink nestled in a slate counter made from recycled pool table slate. Notice the corner pockets are still visible.
If you're looking for eco garden furniture for outdoor use oak is your best option. In the garden or on the patio, it will last a lifetime. It is far better than teak which even if it is FSC certified will have come from Burma. That’s a long way from the UK. Here are some of the furniture we have made for outdoor use using only recycled wood and reclaimed timber from sustainable sources. Click to view more photos of our eco-friendly garden furniture
Launch of new online furniture store / online shop
There's no doubt that the colour of 2009 is green! To celebrate the start of a new year we have launched our new online furniture store.
We've selected some of our most popular furniture and made it available to buy online. Take time to browse through our recycled, environmentally friendly furniture and if what you want is not there, then just commision us to build it for you!
Sylvantutch provides a natural alternative for the environmentally aware shopper, so you can reduce your impact on the environment and help to build a future in which we live in harmony with nature.
High Quality Rustique Furniture at competitive prices: there's something to suit all tastes and budgets!
New furniture: Eco-friendly driftwood shelves
We've launched a funky new range of eco-friendly shelves, made entirely from recycled, reclaimed wood. Organise everything from your books to your clothes, and for an easy-to-clean option, check out the new slate surfaces.
New Eco-Friendly Garden Furniture - Oak park bench
We've just created a new design of eco-friendly garden bench from recycled materials. This bench can be used as a outdoor garden bench as it has been made from solid oak which is extremely durable, hard wearing and above all eco-friendly. We are looking into making a similar storage bench when we get some more time. These two have been commissioned as anniversary benches to go into a commemorative garden.
Here are some photos and animations of these two wooden garden benches enjoy....
When Jamie Oliver commissioned us to make some bespoke rustic garden furniture for his home in Essex, we were over the moon. Why? Because we believe we share similar values with the popular naked chef. Jamie is famous for more than just his cooking: he challenges convention and he promotes a creative approach to food that combines traditional recipes with modern ethical awareness. Why have the 'same-old' when you can have something fresh and funky?
No nonsense, inventive and fun, Sylvantutch furniture is like your favourite classic recipe done Jamie style!
Here's the latest designs of furniture made from recycled wood and slate. Will add more photos soon.....
Ty builds his Executive Desk...
We have a friend and customer Ty who came to help us build him a seriously chunky rustic executive desk. For the worktop he chose two solid pieces of yew, (eight feet long and more than two inches thick), the tree had developed rot at its base and had to be felled. For the uprights we used reclaimed oak fence posts and for the panels we used a ombination of sycamore, cherry, ash, oak and chestnut.
The completed computer desk comes in four pieces, the two yew workstation surfaces and the two enclosed cabinets. Because of the weight of the yew, only gravity is needed to join the four pieces. Watch the progress below.....
We're really happy to anounce that we've won a local film awards for a film we made for our sisters wedding. So on Saturday the community of Machynlleth turned out in there finest outfits to watch what local talent had produced on film.
We've just been told that the video we made for our sisters wedding has been accepted and will be shown in this years Snowball Awards in Machynlleth.
Our sister Anne got married in Stellenbosch, South Africa, at the beggining of this year. Three of her four brothers were not able to be there, as we were thousands of miles away, in a small town called Corris.
The very least we could do was to make our sister a surprise video, which was shown at her wedding reception. She missed most of the film due to her tears...
Enjoy...
New Furniture - Yew and Oak Four Poster Bed...WET OIL
We were so happy to have sold the last rustic willow bed, and excited to be making a new design. This solid rustic oak bed has been made from recycled oak gate posts and the most stunning yew planks you can imagine ....I'll get around to taking some better photos when we get a good day of sun and we find a mattress
