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A furniture workshop in the middle of a working farm

Three Grain came out of a farm building that had run out of agricultural uses and a habit of making things rather than buying them.

A stone farm barn at golden hour with the workshop lamp visible inside — The barn — the workshop is behind the sliding doors

The short version

We started by making a table we could not buy

The farm needed a kitchen table long enough for harvest lunches and heavy enough to survive them. Nothing in the shops was either, and the pieces that came close were built from veneered board with a steel-effect finish sprayed on top.

So it got made in the barn instead, from mild steel, a wide oak board from the mill down the road and a stone offcut. Then a neighbour asked for one. Then their architect did.

That is still how the workshop runs. A small number of commissions at a time, three materials we understand properly, and a finish you can repair with a cloth instead of returning to a factory.

Inside the barn workshop: steel stock, drying oak boards and a welding bench

Solid material, visible joints, and a maker you can ring. Everything else is decoration.

What we tell every new client

Made on the farm

Drawn, cut, welded, machined and finished in one building. Nothing is subcontracted except stone cutting, and that is done to our templates.

Three materials only

Steel, stone and solid hardwood. No veneer, no MDF carcasses, no steel-effect laminate. If a piece needs a fourth material, we will say so.

Slow on purpose

A handful of commissions at a time. Timber gets weeks to settle before it is machined, because that is what stops a top cupping in year two.

Built to be inherited

Mechanically fixed and demountable where it matters, so a top can be re-oiled, a leg re-waxed and a piece moved house without being destroyed.

An oak and steel bench in a stone-floored hallway

Visit

Come and see it being made

The workshop is open by appointment most Saturdays. Bring your measurements, a photograph of the room and a pair of boots — it is a farmyard, not a showroom.

Book a visit

From the barn

A note when something new leaves the workshop

Occasional letters — a finished commission, a run of offcut pieces, an open workshop day. Nothing more than once a month.