Fourways & northern suburbs
Bespoke steel furniture
Tables, bases and frames in mild steel and polished stainless, one-offs and matched batches, often paired with hardwood.
This is the work I’d do all day if I could choose.
Console tables, dining tables, table and side-table bases, chair and stool frames. Mild steel where it’s getting painted, polished stainless where the metal is the finish. Often paired with a hardwood top, which is the part most fabricators hand off to somebody else.
Because I do both, the joint between them can be better. On the console tables the steel is rebated so the timber sits down into the frame, a small thing that changes how thin the whole piece reads from across a room.
One-offs for houses, and matched batches for furniture makers and interior designers.
What this covers
- Console, dining and coffee tables
- Table and side-table bases
- Chair and bar stool frames, including cantilever
- Steel and hardwood pieces, frame and top both made here
- Shelving, media units and built-in frames
- Fine metalwork: lighting frames, screens, one-offs
- Matched batches for furniture makers and interior designers
What I don't do
Worth saying up front so nobody wastes a phone call.
- Upholstery, I build the frame and work with your upholsterer, or send it to mine
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All work Bespoke steel furniture
Steel and hardwood console table
A long console built from square tube and a solid hardwood top, welded, ground flush, painted, then fitted with the timber oiled to bring the grain up.
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Stainless steel table and stool bases
Polished stainless bases made in batches for a furniture client, faceted, cross-braced and cube forms, all built to repeat exactly.
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Bespoke steel furniture
Upholstered bar stools
Cantilever stool frames in polished stainless, taken from bare frame through to buttoned velvet seats.
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Bespoke wire lampshade frames
Replacement shade frames bent and welded to match an original woven shade, a set of one-offs, each ring true and each a copy of the last.
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Common questions
Can you work from a picture or a drawing?
Yes, a photo, a sketch, a screenshot, or a piece you already own that needs matching. Most of my furniture work starts as a picture on WhatsApp. If something in the design won't work in steel, or will work but won't last, I'll say so before we start rather than after.
Do you make the timber tops as well, or only the steel?
Both. That's the point of the combination, on the console tables the top rail is rebated so the hardwood sits into the steel instead of on top of it, which keeps the edge line thin. Getting that right needs the same person doing the frame and the top.
Can you make a matched set?
Yes, and it's a different job to a one-off. Matched work gets jigged rather than measured piece by piece, and the welding order matters because stainless moves as you heat it. If the frames are going under the same tops in the same room, they have to be identical, not similar.
Mild steel or stainless, which should I choose?
Mild steel if it's getting a colour: it's stronger for the money and takes paint properly. Stainless if you want the metal itself to be the finish, or it's somewhere damp. Stainless costs more and is harder to keep flat while welding, but there's no coating to chip and no maintenance.
Do you work with interior designers?
Yes. A good part of my furniture work is trade, frames and bases to a designer's drawing, made to repeat. Happy to work from specs and to quote per unit on a batch.
Fourways & northern suburbs
Tell me what you need
Send a photo and a rough size on WhatsApp and I'll come back to you with a straight answer, including if it's not a job worth paying me for.