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Oak frame porch kits

Oak frame porch kits – make a welcoming entrance!

We make your home a whole lot more inviting, with a handmade oak framed porch kit. Direct from our base in the heart of the New Forest we supply oak frame porch kits for welcoming oak porches throughout the UK. Whether you’re in the country or in the town, our oak frame porch kits can really add that special characterful and individual welcoming focal point to your home.

Assured product quality 

We ensure that all our oak porch kits are hand crafted and pre-assembled in our workshops, prior to being delivered. So you can be assured that everything will fit together just as it should. We only use the best quality oak which is known as green oak, due […]

February 24th, 2017|oak frame porch kit, oak buildings|
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    Oak Framed Garage / Carport – Complete Design, Planning & Build

Oak Framed Garage / Carport – Complete Design, Planning & Build

Another successfully completed Oak Framed Garage project for some lovely clients in the heart of the New Forest.

Planning & Design

We were asked to undertake a full design, planning & build package for a large single garage/carport with internal log-store at the rear, in Lyndhurst, Hampshire.

After meeting and discussing what type of outbuilding was required, initial hand drawn sketches were provided for consideration, details tweaked and a final design was approved. The detailed construction drawings where then completed, including relevant structural engineering specifications. Any possible issues with nearby trees were discussed and then a full online planning application was made to the New Forest National Park Authority, with all relevant supporting documents.

Materials

Each of our bespoke oak frame garage designs has been tailored to fit the […]

March 17th, 2014|oak garages, oak buildings, oak frame porch kit|
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Chunky Green Oak Furniture for Ben Whistler Ltd.

We were recently commissioned by Ben Whistler Ltd to make some rather chunky green oak furniture side tables hewn from heavy green oak blocks, for a well known celebrity chef’s private London residence.

We like a challenge and as usual the time scales were tight; we didn’t want to have kitchen knifes flung at us if we didn’t deliver on time, so we managed to get the raw green oak blanks swiftly from the sawmill and set about the task ahead.

In the workshop a makeshift manual lathe was set up to turn the round one, whilst the square format ones where slightly easier to fabricate. After a lot of sawing, hewing & chiselling work the blocks took shape and we got to a point where […]

March 16th, 2014|oak furniture|
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New Forest Oak Buildings – New Website Launched

New Forest Oak Buildings is pleased to announce the launch of the new updated website focusing on everything and anything oak frame related. We concentrate on high quality oak framed garages, outbuildings, extensions, and other oak structures including full oak framed houses.

We have been working together with Jerry Figueroa-Lee and his team at www.elevate.com to make a responsive clear and uncluttered NFOB website, which shows off our products and services in the best possible light. We think the new website achieves this successfully.

The new gallery pages have dedicated sections for oak garages, extensions, buildings and oak structures respectively; which will provide a great resource for clients to browse through, to gain more insight on oak framing and provide inspiration for […]

March 14th, 2014|oak buildings|
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