Bespoke oak furniture, handmade to measure in Derby.
Oak & Furniture designs and builds solid oak pieces for dining rooms, living spaces, storage, and home offices. Each one is cut to your measurements, hand-finished in your chosen oak tone, and made around how your home actually gets used.
Handmade to order · Solid oak · Made to measure · Designed for your room
Furniture with weight, warmth, and honesty.
We make solid oak furniture for people who would rather own fewer pieces and own them well. Every commission is drawn around the room it will live in: its proportions, its daily traffic, what it needs to hold, the finish that suits the light. It should belong there, not just fit.
A small studio with a single-minded way of working.
Furniture disciplines
Dining tables, storage, shelving & built-ins, and home offices.
Oak finishes
Natural, warm, smoked, dark, pale, or matched to your room.
Steps, enquiry to delivery
One clear route from first enquiry to the finished piece.
Solid oak, made to order
Every commission built to measure in solid oak, never from stock.
Solid oak pieces for dining, living, working, and storage.
From an oak dining table to fitted alcove storage, every piece starts with the same two questions: how should this room feel, and what does it need to do well?
Dining Tables & Benches
Solid oak dining tables and matching benches sized to your room and seating plan, with your choice of edge profile, leg style, and oak finish. They suit busy family kitchens and long gathering rooms alike.
Storage & Cabinets
Oak sideboards, cabinets, and media units with generous proportions and interiors planned around what they hold. Soft-close drawers, adjustable shelving, and concealed cable access go in where they are needed.
Shelving & Built-ins
Fitted oak shelving, alcove units, media walls, and built-in storage, cut to the millimetre so they read as part of the room's architecture. We scribe each one to the existing walls and skirting so it sits flush against the plaster.
Desks & Home Office
Solid oak desks, shelving, and home office furniture for rooms where work has to feel ordered and lasting. Drawer storage and tidy cable routing are built in.
Made to fit the room, not the other way around.
Off-the-shelf furniture asks your home to compromise on size, on finish, on the awkward corner it never quite fits. A made-to-measure piece starts from the room instead. The dimensions, oak tone, storage, and details are all drawn around the space, so it looks intended from day one.
Measured
Every dimension is set by your room and its use, not a fixed catalogue size.
Material-led
Boards are chosen for tone and grain, and matched so the piece sits well beside what surrounds it.
Made by hand
Cut, jointed, and hand-finished with attention to structure, surface, and years of use.
A few recent oak commissions.
Make fewer pieces, make them properly, and let them earn their keep. Furniture that feels right on the first day and harder to live without every year after.Oak & Furniture — Derby, England
A clear, personal process from first message to final placement.
Share the room and idea
Send a few lines about the space, the piece you need, and any rough measurements or photos you already have to hand.
Receive direction and estimate
We suggest a direction, tell you what is realistic, and sketch out the likely scale, oak finish, and budget range.
Approve the design
Once the dimensions, oak, finish, and joinery details are agreed, the piece is booked in for making.
Made and delivered with care
Your furniture is built in solid oak, hand-finished, then wrapped and delivered UK-wide. Fitted pieces are installed on site.
Why we build in solid oak.
We work in kiln-dried solid oak because it holds a room with understated strength and only improves with handling. Left in daylight, it darkens a shade or two over the first year and keeps that colour. The board, grain direction, and finish are all chosen for the home the piece is made for.
Begin with a few details about your room.
Tell us what you would like made, where it will live, and what matters most: size, storage, oak finish, the feel of the room, or all of the above.
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