Australian Woodwork Blog

Wood has been used in homes for as long as there have been homes. There is a reason for that. It ages well, it feels good to live with, and it brings a quality to a room that painted surfaces and laminates simply cannot replicate. Australian native timbers take all of that further, because the colours and grain patterns found in Jarrah, Blackwood, Huon...

Australia's native timbers are unlike anything found anywhere else in the world. The colours, the grain patterns, the textures, the way each species responds differently to a tool or a finish, all of it is specific to this place. That is what makes working with them so compelling, and why the woodwork produced from them is worth knowing about. It is also why looking...

There is something different about picking up a handcrafted piece and knowing that a person made it. Not a machine, not a factory floor somewhere overseas, but someone who has spent years learning how wood moves, how it responds to a tool, how to bring out the grain and the colour that were always there waiting. That is what Australian woodwork is about. And...