A new lease of life for some beautiful seating     We were recently offered a matching set of 14 old church pews salvaged from St. Mathews Church of Ireland, Shankill Road, Belfast. This beautiful church was built in 1872. These pews were beautifully made from the finest quality materials –  in this case seasoned pitch pine timber. Unfortunately their long [...]

Recently we have seen a large increase in the number of Customers introducing dramatic wooden roof trusses into their projects. Whilst all of us at Wilson Yard are generally not into trends as they are often very short lived, but I  don't think that wooden feature trusses will be. The key however is to pick the correct trusses made from the [...]

How reclaimed parquet flooring should look A customer got some reclaimed oak parquet flooring for his hall and  living room last year and very kindly send in a few snaps on how it turned out.   Looks great to me, I hope you agree Nigel

A little bit of history in your home   This is a very interesting piece of wood. It is an original 16th Century English Oak beam salvaged from Old Abbey Farm in Cheshire – part of an amazing consignment of oak beams that I recently purchased in order to restore for clients.     It was originally [...]

Should I consider using vintage or antique pine flooring? Often people think of pine floors as being soft and insipid. This can be the case with some new or even relatively new floors, however at Wilsons Yard, we tend to source old vintage or antique timber flooring that has originally came from very old slow growing [...]

At Wilsons Yard we have a very wide spectrum of customers. Some with traditional tastes and others who love to find a dramatic piece to finish of a very contemporary project. A customer very kindly let us take a few pictures of how they used our bespoke wooden roof trusses that we made for them in [...]