Acorn Furniture was started in 1998 with the ‘unique selling point’ of being able to take a much-loved tree in someone’s garden and return it to the owner as a beautiful piece of furniture. The piece is designed as a one-off, in conjunction with the customer, using ‘photo realistic’ pictures as an aid to visualising the design. The tree is carefully removed, planked and kiln dried before being built into a potential family heirloom. The customers are of course welcome to visit the workshop and follow the process as carefully as they wish.

The majority of people requiring bespoke furniture do not necessarily have an appropriate tree that has to be felled so of course we can usually supply timber from our own stocks of British hardwoods.

The side of the business that has grown fastest is dedicated tree work and so this is now done under the trading name of Acorn ArborCare. We will explore with the customer what is needed, and then plan the best way to achieve these goals while leaving the trees healthy, safer, and better looking than they were before. A written quotation is provided that details the work to be done and, for most tasks, a fixed price for doing it. We will leave or remove the logs and chippings as required and tidy up carefully when the tree work is complete.

We do specialise in work on protected trees and the necessary liaison with the Council Tree Officers needed before a protected tree can be worked on at all.

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